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Resilience Findings
Respecting the sentiment, “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter,” we launched Findings in 2019. We have set up sister publications (Transport Findings, Urban Findings) under the Findings umbrella as it has received positive feedback and acceptance in the academic community. We announce the launch of a new section of Findings: Resilience Findings targeting research findings on the reliability, vulnerability, recoverability, sustainability, resilience, and management of infrastructural, environmental, and societal systems. Our Editorial Board consists of 30 community leaders and resilience experts spanning the globe.
Resilience Findings has been inaugurated with 12 manuscripts written by members of our Editorial Board, who have generously contributed to the launch of our section. We are grateful for their help and support in contributing to the review process and sharing their findings. Our invited manuscripts cover the resilience of supply chains, transport, power grids, telecommunication, and energy networks independently or in isolation.
Nagurney and Ermagun (2022) quantify the resilience of supply chain networks to labor disruptions, which has resonated due to the pandemic, Russia’s war against Ukraine, and the increasing number of natural disasters induced by climate change. They find that labor free movement increases efficiency and resilience, labor productivity reduction impacts efficiency and resilience, and electronic commerce presence increases efficiency but reduces resilience in supply chain networks. Feng et al. (2022) analyze a public dataset of rescue requests for the Houston Metropolitan Area during Hurricane Harvey from the Red Cross. They find the rescue request rates are significantly higher in regions with higher percentages of children, male population, population in poverty, and people with limited English, in addition to regions with a higher inundation rate and worse traffic conditions.
Cats and Shelat (2022) propose a link criticality indicator for measuring the spatial extent of spill-over effects of link closures. Using the urban rail network in Amsterdam, they find that Betweenness centrality and passenger loads do not offer good proxies for assessing link criticality. Xu et al. (2022)consider route diversity as a measure of the network’s capability to accommodate route choice behavioral change and look for potential proactive travelers from the spatial distribution of OD pairs with alternative routes in the Beijing subway network. They show that travelers can proactively build transport resilience by responding to adverse events using alternative routes. Li and Lo (2022) investigate ride-sourcing service pricing and order cancellation penalty in a duopoly market under service arrival time uncertainty in another transport network. They find the monopoly market is better in order cancellations and service waiting times but worse in trip fares for large markets and propose possible regulatory interventions to reduce wasteful order cancellations. Saei and Tajik (2022) offer a feasible initial solution for real-world restoration crew routing problems and acknowledge the effect of topological characteristics on the network resilience enhancement during the restoration process. Shiri and Salman (2022) present an improved lower bound on the competitive ratio of deterministic online algorithms for the multi-agent k-Canadian Traveler Problem. Shifting from passenger to freight transport, Kaplan and Heaslip (2022) evaluate access to essential delivery services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Southwest Virginia. They find that respondents who reside in rural locations are three times more unsatisfied with delivery services due to a lack of access to stores and delivery options.
Lotfi et al. (2022) simulate a distribution system in Portugal to showcase how the utilization of flexibility and mobile energy resources should be considered differently relative to high-impact low-probability vs. low-impact high-probability threats. Their findings support understanding the power system performance under normal or expected disturbances and extreme or tail risk events. Liang et al. (2022)discuss that the loss of demands caused by a severe fault or even failure of cells in the urban telecommunication network could be compensated by intra-sector and inter-sector resilience. They find resilience essential in preserving the serviceability of telecommunication networks. Iervolino and Giorgio (2022) formulate a Markov-chain-based model to describe loss and recovery during aftershock sequences. Their holistic Markovian model preserves most of the benefits of the classical approach and can be extended to enable the modeling of peculiar resilience features such as delay in recovery initiation. Di Maio and Zio (2022) analyze how small nuclear modular reactors’ design features can add resilience to integrated energy systems. They find that small modular reactors can guarantee prompt and effective recovery and restoration of damaged integrated energy system plants and should be considered as flexible power production plants to add resilience to integrated energy systems.
The overarching goal of Resilience Findings is to provide a snapshot of the versatility of the applications of resilience, both in scientific research and in practice starting at the onset of the third decade of the 21st century, and onward. If we succeed, Resilience Findings will spark reflection on the part of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to be inspired and adopt resilience in a broader array of research and applications.
Transport Findings
September 13, 2022
Estimating Driver Response Rates to Variable Message Signage at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
Soumya Vasisht, Shushman Choudhury, Nawaf Nazir, Stephen Zoepf, Chase P Dowling
September 01, 2022
Susie Pike, Susan Handy
August 24, 2022
Inferring Road Intersection Control Type from GPS Data
Adham Badran, Ahmed El-Geneidy, Luis Miranda-Moreno
August 16, 2022
Aversion to In-vehicle Crowding before, during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic
Stefan Flügel, Nina Hulleberg
August 13, 2022
COVID-19 Impacts on Mobility in Kenyan Informal Settlements: A Case Study from Kibera, Nairobi
Carlo Luiu, Amos Wandera, Jonathan Radcliffe, Francis D. Pope, Vera Bukachi, Joe Mulligan
August 10, 2022
Susanne T. Dale Nordbakke
July 22, 2022
Potential of Telehealth to Mitigate Transport Barriers: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Emma Vinella-Brusher, Abigail L. Cochran, Evan Iacobucci, Jueyu Wang, Mary Wolfe, Lindsay Oluyede, Lauren Prunkl, Noreen C. McDonald
July 12, 2022
Long-Distance Travel Impacts of COVID-19 Across the United States
Yantao Huang, Natalia Zuniga-Garcia, Kara Kockelman
July 06, 2022
Analyzing Public Transport Mode Share by Generational Cohort in Montreal Canada (1998-2018)
Stephen Hickson, Ahmed El-geneidy
June 23, 2022
Factors Affecting e-Scooter Mode Substitution
Nils Fearnley
June 16, 2022
The Chance of Getting Struck by a Car on an e-Scooter is Twice as High at Night
Nitesh R. Shah, Christopher R. Cherry
June 11, 2022
Prediction of the Deviation between Alternative Routes and Actual Trajectories for Bicyclists
Haotian Wang, Emily Moylan, David M. Levinson
May 10, 2022
Starting Points Matter: Spatial Variation in Marginal Effects for Negative Binomial Trip Models
Clemens A. Pilgram, Marlon G. Boarnet
May 05, 2022
Ride-Hailing Data Suppression and Exclusion Strategies Can Lead to Biased Outcomes
Richard Alexander Mucci, Gregory D. Erhardt
April 14, 2022
Eric Dasmalchi, Brian D. Taylor
April 09, 2022
Robin Lovelace, Rosa Félix, Dustin Carlino
April 01, 2022
From Riding to Driving: the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Transit in Metro Vancouver
Bogdan Kapatsila, Emily Grisé, Dea van Lierop, Francisco J. Bahamonde-Birke
March 30, 2022
COVID-19 and Modal Shift towards Motorized Two-wheelers in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Shaila Jamal, Sadia ChowdhuryK. , Bruce Newbold
March 25, 2022
Marcel E. Moran
March 23, 2022
Changes in the Representativeness of Strava Bicycling Data during COVID-19
Jaimy Fischer, Trisalyn Nelson, Meghan Winters
March 19, 2022
James Huang, Marlon G. Boarnet
March 11, 2022
The Equity Implications of Highway Development and Expansion: Four Indicators
Ugo Lachapelle, Geneviève Boisjoly
March 11, 2022
Parallel Parking Vehicle Alignment Strategies
Benjy Marks, Emily Moylan
March 09, 2022
Ride-hailing through the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City
Annie Chang, Luis Miranda-Moreno
March 09, 2022
Typologies of 20-Minute Neighbourhoods, Active Transport Use, and Spatial Spillovers
Liton Kamruzzaman
March 03, 2022
In Search of Lost Trams: Comparing 1925 and 2020 Transit Isochrones in Sydney
Bahman Lahoorpoor, David Levinson
February 23, 2022
Xiao Shi, Mary Richards, Anne Vernez Moudon, Brian H.Y. Lee, Qing Shen, Xuegang Ban
February 12, 2022
An Empirical Taxonomy of Common Curb Zoning Configurations in Seattle
Chase P. Dowling, Thomas Maxner, Andisheh Ranjbari
February 11, 2022
Cumulative versus Gravity-based Accessibility Measures: Which One to Use?
Manuel Santana Palacios, Ahmed El-geneidy
February 04, 2022
Kathryn Easther, Alexa Delbosc
February 01, 2022
Effect of Residential Street Speed Limit Reduction on Driving Speeds in Portland, Oregon
Jason C Anderson, Christopher Monsere, Sirisha Kothuri
January 19, 2022
The Revealed Preference for Battery Electric Vehicle Range
Lasse Fridstrøm, Vegard Østli
January 06, 2022
Evaluation of E-Scooter Media Coverage
Or Caspi, Michael J Smart
December 23, 2021
When the Train Finally Comes: Impact of New Transit Opening on Urban KampungResidents’ Personal Motorized Vehicle Use
Alyas Abibawa, WiditaDyah Titisari, WidyastutiIkaputra
December 23, 2021
Oluwayemi-Oniya Aderibigbe
December 22, 2021
Andrea Gorrini, Dante Presicce, Rawad Choubassi, Ipek Nese Sener
Urban Findings
July 27, 2022
Spatial Association Between Dog Ownership and Crime Rate in New York City
Ahmad Ilderim Tokey, Shefa Arabia Shioma
June 07, 2022
Caislin Firth, Jeneva Beairsto, Colin Ferster, Grace Longson, Kevin Manaugh, Yan Kestens, Meghan Winters
May 26, 2022
Yu-Tong Cheng, Patricia Sauri Lavieri, Sebastian Astroza