| Title | Beyond Bouncing Back: A Roundtable on Critical Transportation Resilience |
|---|---|
| Record ID | 47853 |
| Personal Name Creator |
Bell, Ellen; Barami, Bahar |
| Source | 9p. in various pagings |
| Corporate Creator | John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) |
| Publisher | John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) |
| Publication Date | 20130600 |
| Language | English |
| Abstract | Global transportation infrastructure today is confronted with significant vulnerabilities — an aging infrastructure; a growing concentration of populations at high-density coastal urban areas; increasing interdependencies among the nation's physical and cyber infrastructures; co-location of many transportation systems with large-scale and potentially hazardous production facilities; and the escalating threats of climate change. Together, they have coalesced to create significant challenges for the nation's critical infrastructure systems. A framework for enhancing critical transportation infrastructure resiliency could serve as a roadmap for addressing some of these pressing global challenges. Recently, the concept of resiliency, however, has become a buzzword used to characterize a system that recovers rapidly from a disruption in order to resume normal functions. But, RESILIENCY IS MORE THAN BOUNCING BACK. The U.S. Department of Transportation's Volpe Center hosted a roundtable of experts to explore resiliency in the context of challenges facing the nation's transportation system. The experts concurred that resiliency requires a change in focus from near-perfect efficiency to planned redundancy, flexibility, fault-tolerance, and resourcefulness. A resilient transportation infrastructure will be able to anticipate threats—both natural and man-made—and will be able to absorb shocks and adapt to changing conditions. With a resilient approach, we can rebuild better and smarter, recognizing that no infrastructure exists in isolation. Resiliency will make our future infrastructure reliable, sustainable, and survivable. |
| Rosap ID | dot:10013 |
| Rosap URL | https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/10013 |
| TRT Terms | Infrastructure; Risk assessment; Environmental risk assessment; Disaster preparedness; Disasters; Hazard mitigation; Psychological adaptation; Climate change |
| General Subjects | Resilience; Resiliency; Critical transportation infrastructure; Climate change; Interdependencies |
| Classification | AGR - INFRASTRUCTURE - INFRASTRUCTURE; AGR - IMPACTS - Environment; AGR - IMPACTS - IMPACTS; NTL - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT - Environment Impacts |
| Geographical Coverage |
United States |
| TRIS Online Accession No |
1489955 |
| Report Number | DOT-VNTSC-RITA-13-02 |
| Availability | Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Technical Reference Center |
| Resource type | Research Paper |
| URL | https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/47000/47800/47853/Bouncing_Back_Critical_Transportation_Infrastructure_Resilience_Summary.pdf |
| Format | |
| Database | NTL Digital Repository |