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Uncertainty modeling of hurricane-based disruptions to interdependent economic and infrastructure systems

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Extreme risks associated with natural and man-made disasters involve disruptions to the production of goods or provision of services in interdependent systems. The reduced supply of goods and services will degrade “as-planned” production and create ripple effects. Hence, maintaining above-minimum levels of inventory is a resilience strategy that could effectively reduce the onset of disruption. This research integrates the uncertainty in inventory levels to assess the economic impacts of moderate and extreme disastrous events on interdependent systems. The unique contribution of this research is the formulation of a stochastic inventory-based risk assessment model using a multi-objective optimization framework for minimizing (1) extreme economic losses and (2) sector inoperability. Empirical distributions are derived from inventory-to-sales ratio (ISR) of the manufacturing and trade sectors from the Bureau of Economic Analysis database. Simulations of inventory enable the initialization of inoperability functions of a dynamic inoperability input–output model (DIIM). The stochastic inventory-based DIIM-computed values of economic loss and inoperability are simultaneously minimized to identify inventory-enhancement opportunities for critically disrupted systems. A lean production case for a moderate-intensity hurricane in Virginia reveals an overestimation of regional economic loss relative to the expected inventory levels from the ISR data. The conditional expected value of regional economic loss for an extreme event is found to be $12 M higher than a moderate-intensity case. Identification of resilience-enhancement opportunities using the proposed multi-objective optimization framework could reduce expected economic loss by $24 M for an extreme-event and $17 M for a moderate-intensity case.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (Award #0963718) and the LMI Government Consulting. The authors would also like to acknowledge the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Systems (George Washington University) and the Philippine Department of Science and Technology (“Balik” Scientist Program) for additional financial support leading to the publication of this article. Points of view expressed in this article belong to the authors and do not represent the official positions of the aforementioned agencies.

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  1. Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, The George Washington University, 1776 G Street NW, Suite 101, Washington, DC, 20052, USA

    Joanna Z. Resurreccion & Joost R. Santos

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of the Philippines, Melchor Hall, 1101, Diliman, Quezon, Philippines

    Joanna Z. Resurreccion

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Resurreccion, J.Z., Santos, J.R. Uncertainty modeling of hurricane-based disruptions to interdependent economic and infrastructure systems. Nat Hazards 69, 1497–1518 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-013-0760-5

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