Incorporating Resilience in Infrastructure Prioritization : Application to the Road Transport Sector
Disruption of infrastructure services can cause significant social and economic losses, particularly in the event of a natural disaster. The World Bank Group and the Government of Japan established the Quality Infrastructure Investment Partnership...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/985731536844603721/Incorporating-Resilience-in-Infrastructure-Prioritization-Application-to-the-Road-Transport-Sector http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30429 |
| Summary: | Disruption of infrastructure services
can cause significant social and economic losses,
particularly in the event of a natural disaster. The World
Bank Group and the Government of Japan established the
Quality Infrastructure Investment Partnership to focus
attention on the quality dimensions of infrastructure in
developing countries, with a focus on promoting disaster
resilience. Moreover, to support infrastructure investment
decision making for sustainable and resilient development,
the World Bank and Kyoto University have operationalized key
resilience concepts at the project level and developed
quantitative indicators capturing key aspects of
infrastructure resilience related to the road transport
sector. These indicators estimate resilience, expressed as
functionality loss and recovery time across four dimensions:
travel time, economic benefit, provision of life-saving
services, and provision of relief goods. The paper applies
indicator calculations to three case studies of proposed
bypass roads in Japan and provides an example comparison of
calculated indicators across the three projects for each
resilience dimension. Further piloting of the approach will
help refine the indicators, test their relative utility in
decision making, and offer a better understanding of the
data and analytical demands. |
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