Discovering the Commuters’ Assessments on Disaster Resilience of Transportation Infrastructure
Syed Ahnaf Morshed, Mahmoud Arafat, Md. Ashraf Ahmed, Rajib Saha
Abstract
Resilience in infrastructure accounts for direct and indirect impacts associated with risks, criticalities, emergencies, and stakeholders. Infrastructure resilience is evaluated based on the infrastructure system’s ability to retrieve its functionality after a significant setback (e.g., natural disasters). Despite the complexities and threats posed to our infrastructure systems, there are limited scientific methods that evaluate the transportation resilience from the commuters’ perspectives. This study proposed a unique “8R Resilience Model” based on resilient concepts that aim to form an information management tool for assessing the disaster resilience of transportation infrastructure systems. The findings of the study present opportunities to influence policies and planning procedures to reassess the transportation systems by considering the commuters’ priorities, thus achieving resilient and sustainable transportation systems. Finally, the research provides an evaluation of the commuters’ assessments of transportation resilience that support infrastructure systems by implementing an analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and an ordered logit model on the collected data.