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Áine Ní Bhreasail

Arup Group (United Kingdom)

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Savina Carluccio

Arup Group (United Kingdom)

Oliver Pritchard

Arup Group (United States)

Stephanie Galaitsi

United States Army Corps of Engineers

Jason Manning

Arup Group (United Kingdom)

Jeffrey M. Keisler

University of Massachusetts Boston

Daniela Zuloaga

Inter-American Development Bank

James Codd

Highways England

Juliet Mian

Shift (United Kingdom)

Andrew Merritt

Georgetown University

Louis Andrews

Arup Group (United Kingdom)

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Arup Group (United Kingdom)

Arup Group (United States)

Shift (United Kingdom)

U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

United States Army Corps of Engineers

United States Army

ARUP Laboratories (United States)

British Geological Survey

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

University of Sunderland

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Climate and Natural Hazard Resilience in Urban Rail Projects

The World Bank eBooks (2018)

Juliet Mian Matthew Free Áine Ní Bhreasail Savina Carluccio

Identifies climate and natural hazards and their impact on urban rail projects, discusses how to integrate resilience in transportation planning at a system and project level, and introduces tools for addressing climate and natural hazard resilience throughout the project development process. International climate change agreements have recognized that the transport sector needs to focus on adaptation measures as well as mitigation of climate change. Resilience necessitates early consideration in project development as well as a continuous focus through operations. Cross-sector collaboration remains key for urban rail resilience as part of a city's interconnected infrastructure system-of-systems. International experience suggests that investment in measures that enhance the resilience of urban rail systems pay off in the face of hazards and can enhance efficiency and safety of the rail system during normal operations, but the resilience of rail systems depends as much on institutional and stakeholder coordination as on the resilience of the physical infrastructure.

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Urban Resilience

10.1596/978-1-4648-1272-9_ch17

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An investigation of the micromechanical response of soil to one dimensional compression in varied thermal conditions

Áine Ní Bhreasail

10.25560/23898

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The case for value chain resilience

Management Research Review (2020)

Igor Linkov Savina Carluccio Oliver Pritchard Áine Ní Bhreasail Stephanie Galaitsi

Purpose Value chain analyses that help businesses build competitive advantage must include considerations of unpredictable shocks and stressors that can create costly business disruptions. Enriching value chain analysis with considerations of system resilience, meaning the ability to recover and adapt after adverse events, can reduce the imposed costs of such disruptions. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a perspective on resilience as both an expansion and complement of risk analysis. It examines applications of both concepts within current value chain literature and within supply chain literature that may inform potential directions or pitfalls for future value chain investigations. Established frameworks from the broader field of resilience research are proposed for value chain resilience analysis and practice. Findings The synthesis reveals a need to expand value chain resilience analysis to incorporate phases of system disruption. Current explorations in the literature lack an explicit acknowledgement and understanding of system-level effects related to interconnectedness. The quantification methods proposed for value chain resilience analysis address these gaps. Originality/value Using broader resilience conceptualizations, this paper introduces the resilience matrix and three-tiered resilience assessment that can be applied within value chain analyses to better safeguard long-term business feasibility despite a context of increasing threats.

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10.1108/mrr-08-2019-0353

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Remote sensing for proactive geotechnical asset management of England’s Strategic Roads

Infrastructure Asset Management (2018)

Áine Ní Bhreasail Oliver Pritchard Savina Carluccio Jason Manning Tony Daly

Highways England operates, maintains and improves England’s Strategic Road Network (SRN), which has a diverse asset base. Well-maintained geotechnical assets are key to a safe and smooth-running SRN, and failure of these assets can lead to delays, resulting in significant economic impacts. This paper reviews available remote sensing techniques to understand their potential application for proactively managing Highways England’s geotechnical assets. The integration of remote sensing into Highways England’s established asset-management processes is discussed. The conclusions suggest that recent technological advances bear promise for a more systematic and widespread application of remote sensing for geotechnical asset management, alongside cross-asset applications, ensuring greater efficiencies. When used alongside other complementary monitoring methods, remote sensing contributes towards improving safety and asset knowledge and a reduced need for physical asset inspections. Specific implementation challenges include the diversity of required scales and techniques, procurement across asset groups and data management and analysis. However, engineers are equipped to overcome these challenges and exploit the potential of remote sensing to ensure a safe, resilient and efficient SRN ultimately.

10.1680/jinam.17.00025

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Implementing Resilience in Critical Transport Infrastructure Systems

Savina Carluccio Áine Ní Bhreasail Oliver Pritchard Daniela Zuloaga Louis Andrews

Critical transport infrastructure systems play a pivotal role in supporting society through provision of essential connectivity services to end users, alongside enabling economic growth. To be able to deal with an increasingly complex and interconnected world and uncertain future, critical transport systems need to be made more resilient. Being able to preserve critical services in ordinary as well as extraordinary circumstances is the resilience value ultimately delivered to customers. This paper argues that to be successfully implemented, resilience needs to be built/enhanced/embedded across the whole infrastructure lifecycle. It presents a summary of international research undertaken to identify tangible, practical, and relevant actions; tools; approaches; physical measures; and useful resources that decision-makers and practitioners can turn to when looking to implement infrastructure resilience. Finally, it is argued that a value-driven approach focusing on the resilience value delivered by infrastructure is needed to build the business case for resilience implementation.

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10.1061/9780784485163.114

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