Abstract: Economic damages of hurricanes and tropical cyclones are increasing faster than the populations and wealth of many coastal areas. There is urgency to update priorities of agencies engaged with risk assessment, risk mitigation, ...

Abstract: There is an emerging need for analysis of the risks of terrorism to the nation’s critical infrastructures, for which two aspects are relevant here. First, the process of risk assessment requires the identification and ...

Abstract: There are many situations in water‐resources systems in which the statistics of extremes plays a decisive role. This paper investigates the characteristics of extreme values for a strictly monotonic increasing‐loss function,

Abstract: Addressing scenarios of emergent and future conditions is essential to develop robust priorities for infrastructure systems including energy, water, communications, and transportation. Such scenarios represent the perspectives, ...

Abstract: A transportation agency must consider the efficiency of its hurricane preparedness, response, and recovery operations. This paper develops and demonstrates a methodology to identify and characterize the schedule dependencies ...

Abstract: Access management is a set of strategies used by transportation planners to address mobility concerns without the need for major highway expansions. Although access management can significantly improve highway mobility, ...

Abstract: Investments in transportation projects are typically justified by diverse potential benefits, including safety, environmental, energy savings, congestion mitigation, and others. There is a need for such benefits to be ...

Abstract: Sources of risk and uncertainty are key drivers of research and development (R&D) priorities for infrastructure assets, projects, and policies. This paper describes risk factoring, which is a quantification of what combination ...

Abstract: In project planning, several design concepts are considered to examine the potential to lower the lifecycle costs of the structure without sacrificing significant performance. Various natures of unusual and extreme events ...

Abstract: Transportation corridors at regional and national scales are vulnerable to region-wide natural disasters resulting from tropical cyclones, including tropical storms and hurricanes. In addition to floods and debris causing ...