Simulating the Role of Transportation Infrastructure for Community Disaster Recovery

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Nikola Blagojević ◽  
Max Didier ◽  
Božidar Stojadinović
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Transportation Infrastructure ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Infrastructure Systems ◽  
Recovery Simulation

Functional recovery of transportation infrastructure after a disaster is essential for community disaster resilience as the recovery of damaged community components depends on their accessibility for repair. This paper presents a community disaster recovery simulation that accounts for community component's accessibility for repair using a demand-supply framework. Considered components of a community are viewed as suppliers and/or users of various resources and services essential for community functionality, reflected in components’ supply and demand properties. Whenever the demand of a component is not met, that component ceases to operate, simulating interdependency effects. Similarly, recovery demand is attributed to damaged components, representing the amounts of resources and services (e.g., workers, machinery and transportation services) these components need to recover. The proposed framework is illustrated on a virtual community with 3600 inhabitants supported by several interdependent infrastructure systems. The results show that the transportation network damage slows down the recovery of the virtual community by preventing access to damaged components and reducing the ability of the community to mobilize available repair resources. Furthermore, the effect of such prolonged transportation system recovery on the damage-free infrastructure systems whose functionality was decreased due to their dependency on the affected infrastructure systems, is quantified.

scholarly journals Study of Water Transportation Development Prospects Along Mamberamo River

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dewi Kartikasari
Keyword(s):  
Transportation Network ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Groove Depth ◽  
Depth Range ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Service Levels ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Water Transportation ◽  
Flow Length ◽  
Transportation Development

The Mamberamo River with a flow length of 670 meters divides into 2 administrative areas of the Mamberamo Regency, and passes through 7 of the 8 Districts. This caused it to become the main transportation route for the 20 villages located along the river. Mamberamo River has a Groove Depth Range between 10 S/D 40 Meters, and Varied Flow Width of 50 to 600 Meters The maximum current speed reaches> 1.2 m/s, with a maximum possible speed of 1.31 m/s. The existing community activities are very dependent on boats passing by on the river, representing the only mode of transportation available. The aim of this study is to consider the development of a river transportation network along the Mamberamo River which is integrated with the Regional Spatial Plan. This study uses a technical approach to consider the problems of transportation mode needs, the assessment of marine conditions, the population’s socio-economic factors, the level of accessibility and demand, and other supporting factors. This study aims to identify the trends in demand and the availability of sea transportation services, and formulate various indicators of development and development trends based on supply and demand analysis, service levels and shipping service scale (local, regional, international). The results of this study are in the form of policy strategies. Keywords: Transportation, River, Water

scholarly journals Faith and Disaster Resilience: What can Islamic Education Teach Children to Help Prepare Them for A Disaster?

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-192
Author(s):  
Maila Dinia Husni Rahiem
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Child Survivors ◽  
Muslim Society ◽  
Resilient Communities

AbstractChildren used their internal mechanisms, including faith, in coping and bouncing back after a disaster. In this paper, researcher examines the role of faith in building more resilient communities, and also how Islamic education at school can be used to help teach children to be better prepared for a disaster. The research suggests that Islamic education could be used to increase students hope after a disaster, to seek prayer as a source of strength and peace, to see the essential role of Muslim clergies in disaster recovery, and to see how some religious practices need to be understood in better ways. Qualitative narrative research was used as the method of inquiry with the primary source of data coming from interviews.  There are 27 child survivors being interviewed. All those interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed, then the transcripts were analysed to find any emerging themes.AbstrakBeberapa anak menggunakan mekanisme internal mereka, termasuk iman, dalam mengatasi dan bangkit kembali setelah bencana. Dalam makalah ini, peneliti meneliti peran iman dalam membangun komunitas yang lebih tangguh, dan juga bagaimana pendidikan Islam di sekolah dapat digunakan untuk membantu mengajar anak-anak agar lebih siap menghadapi bencana. Penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa pendidikan Islam dapat digunakan untuk meningkatkan harapan pelajar setelah bencana, untuk menjadikan doa sebagai sumber kekuatan dan perdamaian, untuk melihat peran penting para ulama Muslim dalam pemulihan bencana, dan untuk melihat bagaimana beberapa praktik keagamaan perlu dilakukan. dipahami dengan cara yang lebih baik. Penelitian naratif kualitatif digunakan sebagai metode penyelidikan dengan sumber data utama yang berasal dari wawancara. Ada 27 anak yang selamat yang diwawancarai. Semua wawancara itu direkam dan ditranskripsi, kemudian transkrip dianalisis untuk menemukan topik yang tampak. How to Cite : Rahiem, M. D. H. (2018).  Faith and Disaster Resilience: What can Islamic Education Teach Children to Help Prepare Them for a Disaster?. TARBIYA: Journal of Education in Muslim Society, 5(2), 178-192. doi:10.15408/tjems.v5i2.9964.

scholarly journals Quantifying Disaster Resilience of a Community with Interdependent Civil Infrastructure Systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikola Blagojevic ◽  
Fiona Hefti ◽  
Jonas Henken ◽  
Max Didier ◽  
Bozidar Stojadinovic
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Community ◽  
Civil Infrastructure ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Infrastructure Systems ◽  
Unmet Demand ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
Supply Capacity ◽  
Resilience Assessment

Disaster resilient civil infrastructure systems are essential for disaster resilient communities. Measuring the resilience of these systems is the first step towards their improvement. This, however, is not easy: civil infrastructure systems are highly complex, operate in different ways, and are affected differently in different disasters. Adding to the complexity are the interdependencies among different systems. The Re-CoDeS framework for quantifying disaster resilience measures the lack of resilience of a system (e.g., a community) as the amount of the system’s unmet demand for a considered resource or service over the resilience assessment interval. This paper extends the Re-CoDeS framework by considering component interdependencies using a demand/supply approach: whenever the demand of a component is not met by the currently available supply capacity of the system, that component ceases to operate and its supply capacity decreases. Interdependency relations among components can change during the resilience assessment interval as the components’ functionality recovers following a disaster. The proposed iRe-CoDeS framework is demonstrated on a virtual community served by three interdependent civil infrastructure systems producing five types of resources and services.

Spatial and Temporal Differences in Weekday Travel Durations Between Private-for-Hire Transportation Services and Transit in the City Center

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812110197
Author(s):  
Baxter Shandobil ◽  
Ty Lazarchik ◽  
Kelly Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Transportation Network ◽  
Central City ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Time Of Day ◽  
City Center ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
Transit Services ◽  
Level Information ◽  
The City

There is increasing evidence that ridehailing and other private-for-hire (PfH) services such as taxis and limousines are diverting trips from transit services. One question that arises is where and when PfH services are filling gaps in transit services and where they are competing with transit services that are publicly subsidized. Using weekday trip-level information for trips originating in or destined for the city center of Portland, OR from PfH transportation services (taxis, transportation network companies, limousines) and transit trip data collected from OpenTripPlanner, this study investigated the temporal and spatial differences in travel durations between actual PfH trips and comparable transit trips (the same origin–destination and time of day). This paper contributes to this question and to a growing body of research about the use of ridehailing and other on-demand services. Specifically, it provides a spatial and temporal analysis of the demand for PfH transportation using an actual census of trips for a given 2 week period. The comparison of trip durations of actual PfH trips to hypothetical transit trips for the same origin–destination pairs into or out of the central city gives insights for policy making around pricing and other regulatory frameworks that could be implemented in time and space.

scholarly journals 8R Resilience Model: A Stakeholder-Centered Approach of Disaster Resilience for Transportation Infrastructure and Network

2021 ◽  
pp. 100058
Author(s):  
Syed A. Morshed ◽  
Mahmoud Arafat ◽  
Seyedmirsajad Mokhtarimousavi ◽  
Sifat Shahriar Khan ◽  
Kamar Amine
Keyword(s):  
Transportation Infrastructure ◽  
Disaster Resilience

Mexico's Pre-Revolutionary Reckoning with Railroads

1985 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Randall
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Theory ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Underdeveloped Country ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Economic Interpretation ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Railway System ◽  
Economic Considerations

Economic considerations all but dominate recent historical writing in this country about the railroads of Mexico. Technical matters of construction and operation, as well as the role of the state in both, are touched upon, but economic interpretation, whether of the development of a railway system or of its impact on the nation, is the watchword if not catchword of most writing. Probably the leading example of the dominant approach is Growth against Development: The Economic Impact of Railroads in Porfirian Mexico (Northern Illinois University Press, 1981), by John H. Coatsworth, in which the author concludes that, while “the short run contribution of railroads to economic growth was large,” their longrun impact helped “to create the underdeveloped country Mexico has become.” Applying economic theory and measuring, Coatsworth in essence proves with numbers a case argued more elegantly in straight prose early in this century: that the application of a modern transportation network to a staple producing economy will do little more than extend and intensify the production system so as to increase the staple output.

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