SARIL

Sustainablity And Resilience for Infrastructure and Logistics networks

During the Cov19 pandemic it became apparent that the logistic network can be massively shattered and that a better understanding of its robustness, risks and vulnerabilities is of vital importance. Additionally, it is obvious that the accelerating climate change demands a much greener fright transport.
SARIL aims to complement the classic definition of resilience, which focuses on threat prevention, robustness and system recovery, by green aspects. Key performance indicators will be defined which quantify both, the system resistance against disruptions as well as the environmental burden of freight transport. Adopting three different scenarios on different geographical scales (regional, national and international/EU), models will be developed which are able to capture the unperturbed system operation as well as the behavior in case of a disruptions.
The results for the three scenarios will be used to assess similarities and differences between the three geographical scales, and recommendations to improve the classic resilience will be derived.