Resilience Session 02 - Resilience of road freight traffic facing adverse situations: foresight, modelling, response and lessons learnt
Wednesday, March 11
09:30
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11:00
Chair: Olivier Quoy, Chair of PIARC Technical Committee 2.3, Atlandes, France
Room: Room 2
Natural disasters, including weather events but also major disruptive events such as bridge collapse (Baltimore, USA), strikes, demonstrations (France), or geo-political conflicts, caused disruptions to the multimodal freight network and industry supply chains. These disruptions impacted communities, businesses and the overall economy. When large-scale events disrupted freight systems, supply chains could fail, and populations were at risk of losing access to basic necessities and critical supplies needed to support recovery. Emergency response and recovery activities depended on the expeditious movement of utility service vehicles and trucks carrying emergency supplies, medicine, food, fuel, and infrastructure repair materials to the affected area. Freight system resilience, i.e. the ability of the system to resist and rebound from disruptions, was essential to ensure the reliability of economically important supply chains and the timely distribution of critical resources and services. Multimodal freight transportation system resilience depended on the collaboration between public sector infrastructure owners and operators and privately owned modes, carriers and shippers.
This session gave illustrations of those with foresight studies (Alps) and also returns of experience (Baltimore case).
Welcome and session introduction
• Olivier Quoy, Chair of PIARC Technical Committee 2.3, Atlandes, France
Presentations
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Resilience Analysis of the Alpine Crossing System
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Measuring and Prioritizing Supply Chain Resilience Needs: The Texas Approach
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Challenges in Rehabilitation on Transalpine Corridors
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Reorganization of road freight after Baltimore bridge collapse
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Texas/Mexico Cross-Border Disruptions: Impacts and Mitigation Measures
Questions and Answers
• Olivier Quoy, Chair of PIARC Committee 2.3, Atlandes, France
Conclusion
• Olivier Quoy, Chair of PIARC Technical Committee 2.3, Atlandes, France
Organization
Session Organiser: Olivier Quoy, Chair of PIARC Technical Committee 2.3, Atlandes, France
Session Secretary: to be confirmed