Disaster Resilience Assessment of Building and Transportation System

ABSTRACT

The paper presents a new methodology to assist decision-makers in the management of critical events such as earthquakes evaluating the recovery time, and the resilience index of a building system that is a component of the physical infrastructure dimension of the PEOPLES Resilience framework. The interdependencies between building system and transportation network in term of accessibility are modeled. Finally, the methodology has been implemented in a software and has been applied in two case studies: (a) the old medieval center of L’Aquila town and (b) the Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay area.

KEYWORDS:

• Community Resilience
• Disaster Resilience
• Infrastructure Interdependency
• Peoples Framework
• Restoration Process
• Recovery
• Loss Estimation
• Seismic Hazard

Acknowledgment

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the Grant Agreement no. ERC_IDEal reSCUE_637842 of the project IDEAL RESCUE—Integrated DEsign and control of Sustainable CommUnities during Emergencies.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the H2020 European Research Council [637842].