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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Main Authors:	Marcelo, Darwin, House, Schuyler, Raina, Aditi
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	TRANSPORT ROADS INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE PRIORITIES CLIMATE RESILIENCE NATURAL DISASTERS
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

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spelling	okr-10986-304292021-06-08T14:42:47Z Incorporating Resilience in Infrastructure Prioritization : Application to the Road Transport Sector Marcelo, Darwin House, Schuyler Raina, Aditi TRANSPORT ROADS INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE PRIORITIES CLIMATE RESILIENCE NATURAL DISASTERS 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. 2018-09-14T20:17:06Z 2018-09-14T20:17:06Z 2018-09 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/985731536844603721/Incorporating-Resilience-in-Infrastructure-Prioritization-Application-to-the-Road-Transport-Sector http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30429 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8584 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific Japan
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description	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.
format	Working Paper
author	Marcelo, Darwin House, Schuyler Raina, Aditi
author_facet	Marcelo, Darwin House, Schuyler Raina, Aditi
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title	Incorporating Resilience in Infrastructure Prioritization : Application to the Road Transport Sector
title_short	Incorporating Resilience in Infrastructure Prioritization : Application to the Road Transport Sector
title_full	Incorporating Resilience in Infrastructure Prioritization : Application to the Road Transport Sector
title_fullStr	Incorporating Resilience in Infrastructure Prioritization : Application to the Road Transport Sector
title_full_unstemmed	Incorporating Resilience in Infrastructure Prioritization : Application to the Road Transport Sector
title_sort	incorporating resilience in infrastructure prioritization : application to the road transport sector
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/985731536844603721/Incorporating-Resilience-in-Infrastructure-Prioritization-Application-to-the-Road-Transport-Sector http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30429
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