Note: Special Project 1 was previously referred to as Flagship 6
Leader: Liam Wotherspoon
Deputy Leader: Roger Fairclough, Neoleaf Charlotte Brown
Opportunity
The resilience of lifeline networks (electric power, transportation, telecommunications (ICT), potable water, stormwater/wastewater, and liquefied/gas fuels) and other distributed infrastructure (flood control networks) play a critical role in the ability of society to rapidly recover after a major disaster. The research in this project will be directed toward developing tools to assess the performance of spatially-distributed infrastructure networks subject to extreme natural hazards.
This research is funded under the both the Resilience to Nature's Challenges National Science Challenge (http://resiliencechallenge.nz/) and QuakeCoRE and therefore through the Built programme and QuakeCoRE through IP3: A resilient Aotearoa NZ transport system. Therefore, this research has a focus on a range of extreme natural hazards along with earthquakes.
Working Working closely with relevant stakeholders we will develop methodologies to quantify system-level performance of nationally critical infrastructure when subject to natural hazards and cascading impacts, leading to improved resilience of communities through identification of multi-hazard related vulnerabilities in infrastructure critical for NZ society. Critical infrastructure asset owners do not currently have methods to fully quantify resilience of key components and trickle-down impacts of their disruption due to natural hazards. Nor are there consistent methods to measure and monitor infrastructure resilience within or across infrastructure types, organisations, or investment criteria to assess the merits of different options to improve resilience. System-level resilience methodology outputs will be based on local (or component) level quantification of vulnerabilities, and mechanistic models for the interactions between the components of the network system. INFOGRAPHIC
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Monthly Meetings and Workshops
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- Infrastructure Research Day 2021
- Infrastructure Research Day 2019
- Infrastructure Research Day 2018
- 2021 Meetings
- 2020 Meetings
- 2019 Meetings
- 2018 Meetings
- 2017 Meetings
- November 2016 - Resilience of Distributed Transportation Infrastructure Workshop
- 2016 Meetings
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