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Our goal is to develop an improved understanding of the resilience of spatially-distributed infrastructure networks to extreme natural hazards through new methodologies and application to New Zealand-specific critical infrastructure. In the face of New Zealand’s unique natural hazard environment, and based on engineering science evidence, this project will enable New Zealanders to anticipate critical infrastructure vulnerabilities, and protect and transform the built environment to support thriving communities. The impact of this project will result from the robust quantification of infrastructure network resilience, and importantly, explicit insight into optimization of pre-disaster mitigation and post-disaster targeted repair strategies which will minimize the consequences of infrastructure network in-operability.
Current Projects
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Current Project Summary MatrixOverall research update - 2019
Direct Funding
18TRA - Assessing Transient Populations Exposure to Disaster Risk (Darling - UC, Wilson - UC, Orchiston - UOtago, Bradley - UC)
18198 - Assessing the impact of undocumented stopbanks on flood routing and catchment performance (Wallace - UC, Crawford-Flett - QC, Wilson - UC, Shamseldin - UA)
18202 - Tsunami vulnerability of key infrastructural assets (Whittaker - UA, Melville - UA, Roberts - AC)
18196 - Understanding evacuation and travel behaviour under emergency situations in Auckland, New Zealand (Thakur - UC, Chowdhury - UA, Ranjitkar - UA, Costello - UA, Blake - UC)
18201 - Seismic resilience for fast-changing telecommunication networks (Bertelli - UCL, Giovinazzi - UC, Wotherspoon - UA, Rossetto - UCL)
- 18ADP - Critical infrastructure impacts & adaptations in small towns following earthquakes (McKibbin - UC, Blake - UC, Wilson - UC, Wotherspoon - UA, Hughes - UC)
18TEL - Framework for dynamic reconfiguration of wired and wireless communication systems following natural hazard events (Latif- UA, Austin - UA, Nair - UA)
17143 - Characterising long-term ground deformation impacts on Christchurch City’s buried high voltage electricity network since the start of the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (Rehman - UA, Hughes, UC, van Ballegooy T&T, Wotherspoon - UA)
17123 - Tsunami loading characteristics on power poles (Whittaker - UA, Melville - UA)
- 17GIS - Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Building Information Modeling to Characterise Urban Resilience (Jones - UC, Hughes - UC, Horspool - GNS)
- 17EPD - Electric power distribution system resilience modelling toolbox (Liu - UA, Nair - UA)
- 17RES - Effective Power Restoration Practices following extreme natural hazards (Maina - UA, Nair - UA, Liu - UA)
- 17MIC - A Framework for Islanded Microgrid Operation after Hazard Events (Deh Kohneh - UA, Nair - UA)
- 16SMS - Technical resilience of stormwater management systems to flooding (Valizideh - UA, Shamseldin - UA, Wotherspoon - UA)
- 16UTM - Assessing the resilience of an urban transportation network (Afzal - UA, Ranjitkar - UA, Costello - UA)
16RTN - Operational resilience assessment of a rural road network (Aghababaei - UA, Costello - UA, Ranjitkar - UA)
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