European Resilience Management Guidelines for Critical Infrastructure operationalised for the Urban Transport System

This paper aims to present an outline of the creation of the European Resilience Management Guidelines (ERMG) and further focus on their adaptation and operationalisation for the needs of the Urban Transport System (UTS). A framework for enhancing critical transportation infrastructure resilience could potentially serve as a roadmap for addressing some of the vulnerabilities UTS is facing (e.g. aging infrastructure, extreme weather conditions, terrorist attacks). The concept of resilience, however, has been broadly used to characterize a system that recovers rapidly from a disruption to resume normal operation. As resilience does not only involve recovery, UTS resilience is an overall concept, defining a complex transportation system that is able to better withstand disruptions. The transportation system includes physical, technical, social, and institutional elements that are all critical to resilience. The work performed within RESOLUTE project, addresses these needs, providing guidelines for specific UTS functions, as well as tools for their operationalisation