Resilience of Transportation Systems: Concepts and Comprehensive Review

TLDR

The resilience of transportation systems has been extensively studied over the past decade. This paper synthesizes recent literature on resilient transportation, emphasizing concepts and methodologies. The authors conduct a systematic literature search combining database queries, journal reviews, and citation tracking, then analyze core papers to define resilience, compare related concepts, and review metrics, models, and enhancement strategies across identified subtopics. The review highlights existing research gaps and challenges, proposing several future research directions.

Abstract

The resilience of transportation systems has been extensively studied in the past decade. This paper aims to provide a synthesis of the up-to-date literature on resilient transportation, focusing on concepts and methodologies. A systematic literature search method integrating database search, related journal search, and citation supplement is proposed to select all the appropriate articles. Based on the selected core papers, the definition of resilience is examined, and some related concepts are compared. The main body of the paper is devoted to the review of metrics and mathematical models used to measure resilience and the strategies used to enhance resilience. Several popular subtopics are identified and discussed. Finally, current research gaps and challenges are addressed, and some potential research directions are presented.