International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2019
A Granular Simulation of Bridge Closures Due to a Southern California Scenario Earthquake and Its Effects on the Disruption and Recovery of Freight Traffic to and from Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
Publication: International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2019: Leading Resilient Communities through the 21st Century
ABSTRACT
ASCE evaluates the U.S. transportation infrastructure every four years. Its most recent report in 2017 grades the nation’s roads and bridges at D and C+, respectively. This poor condition coupled with impending natural hazards exacerbates the risks emanating from potential losses of mobility. Consequently, quantified investigation of resilience in regional transportation networks has been a growing research focus. Despite this increasing attention, state-of-the-art studies fall short of devising and utilizing explicit transportation network models wherein infrastructure components (roads, bridges, etc.) and network users along with their behaviors are modeled in high fidelity. In this study, we present a novel model-based approach that couples an image-based structure-specific bridge modeling methodology with a metropolis-scale travel demand model towards achieving a comprehensive and high-resolution resilience assessment. Due to its data-intensive nature, the proposed approach is capable of capturing and incorporating many details that are usually disregarded in traditional analyses, promising improved accuracy in estimating the resilience and sustainability metrics of transportation networks. As a small-scale testbed for the proposed approach, this paper introduces the preliminary direct/indirect seismic loss estimates for the Los Angeles metropolitan area due to a hazard-consistent scenario earthquake event for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and the resulting truck freight traffic disruptions.
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International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2019: Leading Resilient Communities through the 21st Century
Pages: 575 - 585
Editors: Mikhail V. Chester, Ph.D., Arizona State University, and Mark Norton, Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8265-0
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© 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Nov 4, 2019
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