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Transport Resilience in Urban Regions

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Connectivity; Rapidity; Readiness; Recovery; Redundancy; Responsiveness; Robustness

Introduction

Resilience, as a property of a system, has recently gained significant interest among both practitioners and researchers from various disciplines because modern society is increasingly dependent on the stability of the transport system, particularly within systems that are increasingly complex and interdependent. This is seen both in the case of short-term disruptions like accidents, breakdowns, or terrorist attacks and the disruptions caused by climate change and extreme weather-induced events, which pose new challenges to transportation resilience. Therefore, it is important to study transport network resilience and its response to planned or unplanned disruptions, which could help engineers design a more robust system, planners to produce interventions, and scientists to understand complex network phenomena. This chapter presents a brief review of transport resilience studies,...

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    Yuerong Zhang & Stephen Marshall

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Zhang, Y., Marshall, S. (2022). Transport Resilience in Urban Regions. In: Brears, R.C. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87745-3_178

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