Towards resilience operationalization in urban transport system: The RESOLUTE project approach

Increasing resilience to critical events is a topic of highest political concern in the EU. Regarding the case of transport systems, operations have developed a prominent safety and business critical nature, in view of which current practices have shown evidence of important limitations in terms of resilience management. Enhancing resilience in transport systems is considered imperative for two main reasons: such systems provide critical support to every socio-economic activity and are currently themselves one of the most important economic sectors and secondly, the paths that convey people, goods and information, are the same through which risks are propagated.