Modeling and simulation of emergent behavior in transportation infrastructure restoration

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The objective of this chapter is to create a methodology to model the emergent behavior during a disruption in the transportation system and that calculates economic losses due to such a disruption, and to understand how an extreme event affects the road transportation network. The chapter discusses a system dynamics approach which is used to model the transportation road infrastructure system to evaluate the different factors that render road segments inoperable and calculate economic consequences of such inoperability. System dynamics models have been integrated with business process simulation model to evaluate, design, and optimize the business process. The chapter also explains how different factors affect the road capacity. After identifying the various factors affecting the available road capacity, a causal loop diagram (CLD) is created to visually represent the causes leading to a change in the available road capacity and the effects on travel costs when the available road capacity changes.

Publication type Book chapter
Publication Subtype Book Chapter
Title Modeling and simulation of emergent behavior in transportation infrastructure restoration
DOI 10.1002/9781119378952.ch15
Year Published 2018
Language English
Publisher Wiley
Contributing office(s) Center for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS)
Description 120 p.
Larger Work Type Book
Larger Work Title Emergent behavior in complex systems engineering: A modeling and simulation approach
First page 249
Last page 368
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