2. PART 4: MAKE CRITICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
DISASTER RESILIENT
3. STRATEGY: “CONCENTRATE
YOUR POLITICAL AND TECHNICAL
RESOURCES ON ACHIEVING ONE
BIG OBJECTIVE -- SUCH AS
DISASTER RESILIENT
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS”
[Credit: The late George Ritchie, UK]
4. WHAT HISTORY TEACHES
• THE FRAGILITY OF A
CITY’S LIFELINES (I.E,
INFRASTRUCTURE)
WILL PREVENT THE
CITY FROM
BECOMING DISASTER
RESILIENT.
5. LOSS OF FUNCTION OF A
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
CAN PARALYZE
LOCAL, REGIONAL, AND
INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY
RESPONSE
6. TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
• Provide an essential function to
society by moving people and
goods from point “A” to point “B”
• Represent a substantial share of a
country’s GDP (11% for USA.)
7. TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
• Types: Roads, railroads, mass
transit, water-borne and air
transport systems, and
pipelines
• Scales: urban, regional,
national, and international.
8. ELEMENTS OF
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
• Built infrastructure • Operations side
• roads, runways, • vehicles, traffic
airports, terminals, safety and control,
railways, stations, power, commun-
canals, ports, traffic ications and
control centers, signaling,
maintenance and maintenance,
operation facilities, transportation
pipelines, etc. operators, etc.
9. FEATURES THAT AFFECT
RESILIENCY
They extend over broad
geographical areas
They have large numbers of
components that are subject to
either POINT or AREA failures.
10. FEATURES THAT AFFECT
RESILIENCY (Continued)
Roadways and railways frequently
follow river valleys (easier and
cheaper to build)
Utilities, including pipelines, often
follow right-of-ways (reduces legal
problems and costs)
11. FEATURES THAT AFFECT
RESILIENCY (Continued)
Multiple entities have
responsibility for or oversight of
the system
Typically owned by public
entities and publicly funded
Usually self insured
12. FEATURES THAT AFFECT
RESILIENCY (Continued)
Different modes of trans-
portation interact with each
other and other elements of
the city’s built environment
(hence, the name, Lifeline
Systems”).
13. HIGHWAY SYSTEMS
Flooding from tropical storms,
hurricanes, and typhoons, and
tsunamis,
Landslides (rock falls, spreads,
slides, flows)
Earthquakes (ground shaking)