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SAFEWAY's objectives will address and strengthen the four criteria for a resilient infrastructure: robustness, resourcefulness, rapid recovery and redundancy. SAFEWAY contributions to the four resilience components have been estimated as:

Robustness:

  • To reduce infrastructure collapse direct and indirect costs from current €29 billion/year to €26 billion/year, by adopting measures that improve the adaptation to climate change of the most vulnerable terrestrial transport ​infrastructures[1].
  • To achieve  15% savings in maintenance costs, by improving the structural health monitoring (specially ageing assets) and thus, propose retrofitting renewal of elements to reduce the current estimated expenditure in Europe (at least €191B) [2]
  • To minimise 30% budget deviation in performance within 10 years from project mid-term, thanks to proper R&D in ageing infrastructure assets[3]. Objectives 3, 5 and 7 key to reach these goals.​


Resourcefulness​:

  • To collect real time data from passengers, targeting more than 5000 billion passenger-kilometres of European inland transport users thanks to human sensing and car connectivity techniques[4].
  • To decrease 50% action time-response in case of emergency as a result of accurate prediction and human sensing gathered data[5].
  • To assess risk tolerance using risk analysis with both technical and psychological risk dimensions, minimising bias reactions in socially undesirable ways, by evaluating the relevance of the psychometric paradigm.

Rapid Recovery:

  • To reduce 25-35% repair or restoration time after a hazard occurs in order to restore damaged infrastructure, where the costs linked to infrastructure assets are most important[6].​

Redundancy:

  • To increase 20-30% of mobility effectiveness of users in case of congestion or failures of main route through backup alternatives by enabling instant route optimisation, thanks to user access to real-time information of transport infrastructure conditions.​




[1]Nemry, F., Demirel, H. (2012) Impacts of Climate Change on Transport: A focus on road and rail transport infrastructures. http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=5619  

[2] Tsamboulas, D., Estimating and benchmarking transport infrastructure costs, IN: UNECE Workshop on "Good practices and new tools for financing transport infrastructure" 2nd Session Benchmarking of Transport Infrastructure Construction Costs, 2014

[3] Alain Zarli. Proceedings of 6th Transport Research Arena, April 18-21, 2016, Warsaw, Poland. REFINET: Rethinking Future Infrastructure NETworks Transportation Research Procedia 14 (2016) 448– 456

[4]Statistical pocketbook (2016) EU transport in figures.https://ec.europa.eu/transport/facts-fundings/statistics/pocketbook-2016_en

[5] ERTRAC. (2011) European Roadmap.Climate Resilient Road Transport.

[6]WEATHER project resultsin Nemry, F. Demirel, H. (2012). Impacts of Climate Change: A focus on road and rail transport infrastructures. DOI 10.2791/15504.Luxembourg.Publications Office of the European Union.

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Dr. Belén Riveiro
University of Vigo
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