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Introduction
Published in Zhishen Wu, Xilin Lu, Mohammad Noori, Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Systems, 2020
Michel Bruneau, Gian-Paolo Cimellaro, Max Didier, Marco Domaneschi, Ivo Häring, Xilin Lu, Aftab Mufti, Mohammad Noori, Jinping Ou, Anastasios Sextos, Shamim Sheikh, Ertugrul Taciroglu, Zhishen Wu, Lili Xie, Teruhiko Yoda, Ying Zhou
In this context, the following road-mapping endeavors are also of interest: The US presidential directive statements on the resilience of critical infrastructures [4].The German Acatech initiative ResilienTech [5].The working group results in modeling and simulation approaches for critical infrastructure protection of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) science workshop on critical infrastructure protection and resilience [6].Another example is the “Foresight review of resilience engineering: Designing for the expected and unexpected” stipulated by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, which provides background, definitions, and challenges while focusing on engineering solutions and covers a wide range of fields [7].Fundamental concepts, frameworks, resilience extreme value problems, resilience event propagation models, process models and methods, and tools for understanding all phases of the resilience cycle from preparation, protection, detection, prevention, loading, absorption, response, recovery, improvement (bouncing back better), and learning as well as taking account of all-resilience dimensions (see, e.g., [8], [9]).
Securing rail freight operations I
Published in Richard R. Young, Gary A. Gordon, Jeremy F. Plant, Railway Security, 2017
Richard R. Young, Gary A. Gordon, Jeremy F. Plant
Bringing critical infrastructure protection closer to the potential sources of the problem requires the active participation of subnational jurisdictions as well as federal agencies. Many have established statewide critical infrastructure protection plans. In the case of Pennsylvania, this involves collaboration between the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, the State Police, and the Office of Homeland Security. California, in contrast, has taken a more aggressive stance in having its Public Utility Commission personnel gain access to and be able to comment on the security plans of the Class I railroads (note that there are only two: Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe) operating in the state.
Redundancy analysis of the railway network of Hungary
Published in Klára Szita Tóthné, Károly Jármai, Katalin Voith, Solutions for Sustainable Development, 2019
But is a specific network robust against the disruptions of its most vital elements (Derrible & Kennedy 2010, Laszka et al. 2012)? Can it perform under the same supply and demand pattern even if its most important elements are disrupted (Snelder et al. 2012; Disser & Matuschke 2017)? What happens if the capacity of a link is reduced (Cats & Jenelius 2016) or even if rerouting is necessary (Oliveira et al. 2016)? Identifying these network elements is fundamental for critical infrastructure protection.
Understanding flood risk in the context of community resilience modeling for the built environment: research needs and trends
Published in Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 2022
Omar M. Nofal, John W. van de Lindt
Community infrastructure is the first line of defense against natural hazards such as flooding. This infrastructure consists of interdependent networks such as the transportation network, electrical power network, water network, and wastewater network (Johansson & Hassel, 2010). It is well accepted that failure in one of these networks can result in a cascading failure across other interdependent networks (Ouyang, 2014). The U.S. President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP, 1997) defines an infrastructure system as ‘a network of independent, mostly privately owned, man-made systems and processes that function collaboratively and synergistically to produce and distribute a continuous flow of essential goods and services’. Some of these networks are listed as CISs such as power, water, transportation, telecommunication, natural gas, and oil network. Community resilience depends on the characteristics of this infrastructure in terms of its capacity to resist disruptive events, its functionality during and after these events to maintain a certain level of performance, and the community resources needed to reduce the recovery time to restore full functionality (McAllister, 2015).