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17TH World Congress on Road Winter Service, Resilience and Decarbonisation - Pre-proceedings of the Congress

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Resilience Session 02 - Resilience of road freight traffic facing adverse situations: foresight, modelling, response and lessons learnt

Wednesday, March 11 09:30 - 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) or strikes, demonstrations(France), or geo-political conflicts can cause disruptions to the multimodal freight network and industry supply chains. These disruptions impact communities, businesses and the overall economy. When large-scale events disrupt freight systems, supply chains can fail, and populations are at risk of losing access to basic necessities and critical supplies needed to support recovery. Emergency response and recovery activities are dependent 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, the ability of the system to resist and rebound from disruptions, is essential to ensure the reliability of economically important supply chains and, the timely distribution of critical resources and services. Multimodal freight transportation system resilience depends on the collaboration between public sector infrastructure owners and operators and privately-owned modes, carriers and shippers.

This session will give illustrations of those with foresight studies (Alps) and also returns of experience (Baltimore case).

  1. Welcome and session introduction
  2. Presentations
  3. Questions and Answers
  4. Conclusion
  5. Organization

Welcome and session introduction

• Olivier Quoy, Chair of PIARC Technical Committee 2.3, Atlandes, France

Presentations

  • Resilience Analysis of the Alpine Crossing System
    • Enrico PASTORI (TRT Trasporti e territorio, Italy)
    Individual paper Individual paper (pdf - 1.0MB)
  • Measuring and Prioritizing Supply Chain Resilience Needs: The Texas Approach
    • Caroline MAYS (United States) - Senior Director of Planning and Modal Programs, Texas Department of Transportation
  • Challenges in Rehabilitation on Transalpine Corridors
    • Erwin PILCH (Austria) - Responsable de la maintenance chez ASFINAG Bu Managemen
  • Reorganization of road freight after Baltimore bridge collapse
    • Nicole KATSIKIDES (United States)
  • Texas/Mexico Cross-Border Disruptions: Impacts and Mitigation Measures
    • Juan Carlos VILLA (Mexico) - Senior Researcher

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