Development of Network-Based Measures and Computational Methods for Evaluating the Redundancy of Transportation Networks (MPC-464)

Research Needs: Natural and man-made disasters encountered in the past decade (e.g., the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the London Bombing in 2005, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, Minneapolis’ 35W bridge collapse in 2007, Christchurch, New Zealand’s earthquake in February 2011, Japan’s devastating earthquake/tsunami in March 2011, and the Superstorm Sandy in 2012) have repeatedly emphasized the importance of transportation networks and the need for government agencies and communities to make this system more resilient. Recently, various conceptual and/or computational frameworks have been proposed to analyze resiliency (e.g., Chang and Nojima (2001), Victoria Transport Policy Institute (2005), Tierney and Bruneau (2007), Heaslip et al. (2010), and Croope and McNeil (2011) for a general transportation network resiliency evaluation framework, Caplice et al. (2008), Adams and Toledo-Durán (2011), and Miller-Hooks et al. (2012) for a freight system resiliency evaluation framework, and Faturechi and Miller-Hooks (2013) for a general civil infrastructure system).