Post-Disaster Road Network Resilience Assessment
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description: The impact of natural hazards on communities, from a structural, environmental, social, and economic perspective, is increasing worldwide. Following natural disasters, such as flooding, earthquakes, tsunami, hurricanes, and volcanoes, transportation systems are disrupted resulting in cities, towns, and villages being isolated for a period of time causing post-disaster response issues, evacuation difficulties, accessibilities issues, increased travel costs, and economic losses. New Zealand (NZ) is at risk from different types of hazards and has experienced a variety of disasters in recent years. The source of most disasters in NZ are geological hazards (earthquakes, volcanoes, erosion, and landslide); and meteorological hazards (wind and heavy rainfall). Since 2000, three major earthquakes have occurred in NZ, all in the South Island, causing 184 deaths and an estimated economic loss of US$28.5 billion in damage. The Alpine fault, one of the major fault systems in NZ, extends over 600km in the South Island. There is a high probability of a rupture in the next 50 years, with resulting severe damage to the built environment, especially to infrastructure, predicted. In order to assess the operational performance and resilience of the South Island regional road network following a potential Alpine Fault Magnitude 8 earthquake, this project was funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE) under the National Science Challenge (NSC) – Resilience to Nature’s Challenges (RNC) program. Although the physical impact of the AF8 has been studied in detail, there is a paucity of research in the literature assessing the operational performance of the road network following such an event. Only one study has estimated the operational performance of the road network post-disaster without using any transportation simulation model. The main contribution of this research is, therefore, to develop, calibrate and validate a mesoscopic model of the South Island road …
abstract: The impact of natural hazards on communities, from a structural, environmental, social, and economic perspective, is increasing worldwide. Following natural disasters, such as flooding, earthquakes, tsunami, hurricanes, and volcanoes, transportation systems are disrupted resulting in cities, towns, and villages being isolated for a period of time causing post-disaster response issues, evacuation difficulties, accessibilities issues, increased travel costs, and economic losses. New Zealand (NZ) is at risk from different types of hazards and has experienced a variety of disasters in recent years. The source of most disasters in NZ are geological hazards (earthquakes, volcanoes, erosion, and landslide); and meteorological hazards (wind and heavy rainfall). Since 2000, three major earthquakes have occurred in NZ, all in the South Island, causing 184 deaths and an estimated economic loss of US$28.5 billion in damage. The Alpine fault, one of the major fault systems in NZ, extends over 600km in the South Island. There is a high probability of a rupture in the next 50 years, with resulting severe damage to the built environment, especially to infrastructure, predicted. In order to assess the operational performance and resilience of the South Island regional road network following a potential Alpine Fault Magnitude 8 earthquake, this project was funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE) under the National Science Challenge (NSC) – Resilience to Nature’s Challenges (RNC) program. Although the physical impact of the AF8 has been studied in detail, there is a paucity of research in the literature assessing the operational performance of the road network following such an event. Only one study has estimated the operational performance of the road network post-disaster without using any transportation simulation model. The main contribution of this research is, therefore, to develop, calibrate and validate a mesoscopic model of the South Island road …
author: Aghababaei, Mohammad
license: https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm
date published: 2021
date modified: 2026-07-24T01:04:34Z
provider: University of Auckland
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: ResearchSpace@Auckland

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