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The RESOLUTE project’s European Resilience Management Guidelines for Critical Infrastructure: development, operationalisation and testing for the urban transport system

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Critical Infrastructure protection is an issue of priority in Europe, enabling numerous activities for rendering the European Critical infrastructure resilient. A framework for enhancing critical transportation infrastructure resilience could potentially serve as a roadmap for addressing some of the vulnerabilities and criticalities the Urban Transport System (UTS) is facing (e.g. ageing infrastructure, extreme weather conditions, terrorist attacks). Within RESOLUTE project, this need has been addressed, by defining European Resilience Management Guidelines tailored to UTS functions, by developing tools for their operationalisation, as well as by defining performance indicators for assessing their performance. The RESOLUTE pilot that took place in Florence has implemented this approach and the findings show that effective management and continuous monitoring of UTS, with the use of appropriate tools, facilitates the early identification of vulnerabilities and allows for the a priori enhancement of the system’s resilience.

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  1. https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/financing/fundings/pdf/cips/cips_awp_2013_c2012_6299_en.pdf

  2. 2015–2018 RESOLUTE consortium | The RESOLUTE—RESilience management guidelines and Operationalization applied to Urban Transport Environment. Funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 programme under Grant Agreement no. 653460.

  3. https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/coin/10-step-guide/step-7

Abbreviations

ACVI:

Anticipate Capacity Variability Index

MCVI:

Monitor Capacity Variability Index

RCVI:

Respond Capacity Variability Index

LCVI:

Learn Capacity Variability Index

SRI:

System Resilience Index

KPI:

Key performance indicator

FDC:

Function dumping capacity

MAIPT:

Minimum acceptance input performance threshold

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This work has been supported by the RESOLUTE project (www.RESOLUTE-eu.org) and has been funded within the European Commission’s H2020 Programme under Contract Number 653460. For the implementation of this work, the authors were supported by the total of the RESOLUTE Consortium partners, whose contributions were valuable. This paper expresses the opinions of the authors and not necessarily those of the European Commission. The European Commission is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained in this paper.

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This work has been funded by the European Commission’s H2020 Programme, within the RESOLUTE project (www.RESOLUTE-eu.org), under contract number 653460.

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    Emanuele Bellini

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    Evangelia Gaitanidou & Evangelos Bekiaris

  3. Instituto Superior Técnico, Centre for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering (CENTEC), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Pedro Ferreira

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Bellini, E., Gaitanidou, E., Bekiaris, E. et al. The RESOLUTE project’s European Resilience Management Guidelines for Critical Infrastructure: development, operationalisation and testing for the urban transport system. Environ Syst Decis 40, 321–341 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-020-09765-0

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