Description

This theme establishes a comprehensive scientific, analytical, computational, and engineering framework for investigating the resilience, reliability, vulnerability, adaptability, and recovery performance of road transportation networks subjected to natural hazards, operational disturbances, infrastructure failures, and technological disruptions. It examines how road networks respond to extreme weather, flooding, landslides, earthquakes, traffic incidents, structural deterioration, communication failures, and cyber-physical disturbances, emphasizing the capacity of transportation systems to maintain essential mobility functions, absorb adverse impacts, adapt to changing conditions, and restore acceptable operational performance. Particular emphasis is placed on integrating traffic engineering, transportation network science, infrastructure reliability, disaster risk assessment, artificial intelligence, and optimization techniques to support resilient transportation infrastructure and sustainable mobility.