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Evaluating road networks’ performance during and after a disruption and/or malfunction is of great importance. The performance of the road networks includes four concepts: reliability, vulnerability, robustness, and resilience. Among these concepts, the concept of resilience, which evaluates the road network’s performance after a disruption/malfunction, is very significant. On the other hand, given that the road network is one of the primary sources of air pollution and plays a crucial role in urban sustainability, the amount of polluted emission should be considered in road network performance (resilience) analysis. The literature presents several measures such as travel time, queue length, recovery time, network’s total cost, etc., to study road network resiliency. A review of previous studies demonstrates that the number of studies that considered environmental aspects in road network resiliency evaluation is scarce. Therefore, in this study, new network resilience measures that consider environmental factors are presented. These new measures show how the amount of polluted emission will change when a disruption occurs in the road network. After introducing and defining these new environmental resiliency measures, the Sioux Falls road network is simulated as the case study in Aimsun. The Sioux Falls road network (based on new resiliency measures) is evaluated when the speed of links (sections) is reduced randomly. The London Emission Model (LEM) is used for estimating the amount of polluted emission.
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Mehrabani, B.B., Sgambi, L., Madani, N. (2022). Assessing the Environmental Aspects of Road Network Resiliency. In: Altan, H., et al. Advances in Architecture, Engineering and Technology . Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11232-4_7
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