Critical Airport Infrastructure Disaster Resilience: A Framework and Simulation Model for Rapid Adaptation

Critical Airport Infrastructure Disaster Resilience: A Framework and Simulation Model for Rapid Adaptation

Comes, M. (TU Delft System Engineering; TU Delft Transport and Logistics)
Warnier, Martijn (TU Delft Multi Actor Systems)
Feil, Wouter (Student TU Delft)
van de Walle, B.A. (TU Delft Policy Analysis)

Multi Actor Systems

2020

Resilient critical airport infrastructures affected by a disaster need to sustain minimal functionality and quickly resume full operation, while at the same time coping with the increased operational demands imposed by the unfolding disaster response. In this paper, we develop a resilience framework and model-driven approach that focuses on the ability of the infrastructure to rapidly adapt to a new steady state under these conditions. This requires both the extension of capacity as well as the adaptation of key processes. Through discrete event simulations, we study the implications of different policies to improve airport resilience under different disaster impact scenarios for a stylized case. Our results show that although decision-makers may be tempted to focus on short-term measures that can be implemented immediately, resilience is improved most by a combination of rapid process changes and longer-term measures that structurally increase airport capacity.

Resilience
Critical Infrastructure
Airport
Disaster Management
Discrete Event Simulation

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dc6f9129-e6cc-4470-a3cf-875e5d255f12

https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0000798

2020-12-22

0742-597X

Journal of Management in Engineering, 36 (5)

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© 2020 M. Comes, Martijn Warnier, Wouter Feil, B.A. van de Walle