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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"infrastructure resilience"”.
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Optimizing Infrastructure Resilience under Budgetary Constraint
… of these unfavorable events is to enhance the resilience of the system. Resilience is defined as the ability of a system to reduce the impact of an event and return it to its initial state in minimal time. The primary objective of this study is to develop methods for enhancing system …
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Regional infrastructure resilience assessment and urban planning applications
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Port Infrastructure Resilience through Combined Wind-Surge Demand Characterization
… and wave loading should be considered in port infrastructure design to reduce damage costs and improve resiliency.</p>
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Statistical and machine learning models for critical infrastructure resilience
… approach to improving predictions of critical infrastructure behaviors. In our first approach, we explore novel data sources and time series modeling techniques to model disaster impacts on power systems through the case study of Hurricane Sandy as it impacted the state of New York. We find a …
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Machine Learning Methods for Churn Prediction and Infrastructure Resilience
… customer churn prediction and long-term infrastructure resilience to climate-driven disruptions. In the first part of this work, I develop an upgrades-informed churn forecasting model tailored specifically for marketing operations. Recognizing limitations in the existing aggregate …
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Strategic and analytics-driven inspection operations for critical infrastructure resilience
Resilience of infrastructure networks is a key requirement for a functioning modern society. These networks work continuously to enable the delivery of critical services such as water, natural gas, and transportation. However, recent natural disasters and cyber-physical security attacks have …
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Unstructured to Actionable: Extracting wind event impact data for enhanced infrastructure resilience
… events continue to have significant impacts on infrastructure due to the knowledge gap between hazard prediction and tangible impact. Consequently, disaster managers are increasingly interested in understanding the impacts of past wind events that can assist in formulating strategies to enhance …
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Building agrarian infrastructure resilience against climate change impacts : a case of Plateau State, Nigeria
Agrarian infrastructures dominate development in the Nigerian agricultural sector and incorporate various systems of transportation, irrigation and agricultural services that aim to improve the effectiveness of agricultural production and the sustenance of livelihood systems. However, climate …
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Enhancing state energy production : construction work in progress in energy infrastructure projects
… expansion, industrial growth, and outdated infrastructure, modernizing the electrical grid has become a central issue in energy policy discussions. One key area of focus is the difference in cost recovery mechanisms for construction projects, which significantly affects the scale and timing …
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Taxis as pervasive resilience sensors
… proposes a method to quantitatively measure the resilience of transportation systems using GPS data from taxis. The granularity of the GPS data necessary for this analysis is relatively coarse; it only requires coordinates for the beginning and end of trips, the metered distance, and the total …
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Development of a Resilience Assessment Methodology for Networked Infrastructure Systems using Stochastic Simulation, with application to Water Distribution Systems
Water distribution systems are critical infrastructure systems enabling the social and economic welfare of a community. While normal failures are expected and repaired quickly, low-probability and high consequence disruptive events have potential to cause severe damage to the infrastructure and …
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On practical metrics for network infrastructure reliability
The objective of civil infrastructure design is to provide the best service possible within execution constraints, for a given lifetime service. During this lifetime exceptional events occur which stress the working limits beyond regular performance and may even collapse functionality completely. …
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Intelligent Monitoring of Powerline Vibrations - Sparse Sensing and Predictive Modeling Approach
… with implications for vibration mitigation, infrastructure resilience, and smart grid applications.
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Resilience Through Infrastructure Asset Management Long-term Planning
Infrastructure systems worldwide face increasing threats from climate change, manifested in intensified and more frequent natural hazards such as flooding, sea-level rise, and extreme weather events. Effective long-term planning and resilience-building measures are crucial to mitigate these risks …
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A stochastic multi-criteria assessment of security of transportation assets
… The project impacts in terms of enhancing the infrastructure resilience or mitigating the consequences of infrastructure damage in the event of disaster occurrence are rarely considered in project evaluation. This dissertation presents a methodology to address this issue so that in evaluating …
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Traffic-Based Framework for Measuring the Resilience of Ground Transportation Systems under Normal and Extreme Conditions
… One of the major obstacles for increasing the resilience of ground transportation systems is the lack of a measuring framework. Such measuring framework is critical for identifying needs, monitoring changes, assessing improvements, and performing cost-benefit analysis. This research addresses …
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Exploring lean-trained employee perceptions of organizational change amid an aging crisis at a non-urban regional healthcare provider : an embedded single-case study.
… clinical capacity, workforce sustainability, and infrastructure resilience. As patient acuity increases and chronic conditions grow, many healthcare organizations remain stuck in legacy practices and short-term gains, hindering long-term organizational change. These pressures are especially severe …
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Incorporating Wider Infrastructure Disruption in Urban Flooding Resilience Investments
Resilience planning for critical infrastructure (CI) is essential for mitigating disruptions caused by natural hazards, particularly in flood-prone urban areas. This research explores the application of resilience concepts, CI interdependency models, and quantitative assessment frameworks to …
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Assessment of the Jones Act Waiver Process on Freight Transportation Networks Experiencing Disruption
… as a barrier to recovery. Much of the critical infrastructure resilience and security literature focuses on the "hardening" of physical infrastructure, but not the relationship between law, policy, and critical infrastructure. Traditional views of transportation systems do not adequately address …
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A Framework for Evaluating Thaw Settlement in Permafrost Regions
… degradation due to climate change threatens infrastructure stability in cold regions, leading to ground subsidence, structural instability, and increased maintenance costs. Accurate thaw settlement prediction is essential for mitigating these effects and ensuring infrastructure resilience. …
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