The nation's capacity for maintenance and improvement of infrastructure systems and its ability to maintain and improve infrastructure systems and ensure the continued service of critical infrastructure systems are receiving special attention because recent disasters have had a significant impact on critical infrastructure. These critical infrastructure systems are the foundation of the nation's economic and social systems. Much research and many policy studies have been conducted to develop methods to improve protection of critical infrastructure with a focus on decreased vulnerability. This paper describes the development of a framework for a decision support system. The objective of the decision support system is to reduce the vulnerability of places and infrastructure systems through the use of mitigation strategies that increase system resilience and resistance to the stresses imposed by disasters. The decision support system will also provide an understanding of the many variables involved in developing strategies to improve the resilience of critical infrastructure systems. This decision support system, referred to as the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Decision Support System (CIR-DSS), uses systems dynamics and recognizes the impacts of disasters, including damage and disruption to critical infrastructure. Results include those of risk and cost–benefit analyses of alternative strategies that also recognize U.S. government policies for recovery and mitigation. A case study focused on transportation infrastructure was used to test and validate the CIR-DSS framework.


    Access

    Download

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Improving Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Systems Postdisaster


    Subtitle :

    Recovery and Mitigation


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2011-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




    Resilience-Based Optimization of Postdisaster Restoration Strategy for Road Networks

    Xinhua Mao / Jibiao Zhou / Changwei Yuan et al. | DOAJ | 2021

    Free access

    Postdisaster Decision Framework for Bridge Repair Prioritization to Improve Road Network Resilience

    Merschman, Eric / Doustmohammadi, Mehrnaz / Salman, Abdullahi M. et al. | Transportation Research Record | 2020


    Planning Postdisaster Operations in a Highway Network

    Kepaptsoglou, Konstantinos L. / Konstantinidou, Maria A. / Karlaftis, Matthew G. et al. | Transportation Research Record | 2014


    Adaptive Resilience and Critical Infrastructure Security

    Zoli, Corri / Steinberg, Laura J. | Wiley | 2015