the European Research Council under the Grant agreement no.ERC_IDEAL RESCUE_637842 of the project IDEAL RESCUE_Integrated Design and Control of Sustainable Communities during Emergencies.
Lifelines are critical infrastructure systems characterized by a high level of interdependency that can lead to cascading failures after any disaster.Many approaches can be used to analyze infrastructural interdepende...
supported by the United Kingdom’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council(EPSRC)under grant number EP/S023577/1,and Ordnance Survey of Great Britain.
Extreme weather conditions can adversely impact transport networks and driver behaviour,leading to variations in traffic volumes and travel times and increased accident rates.Emergency services that need to navigate t...
supported by Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia,PhD grant no.SFRH/BD/137531/2018,ongoing at Lisbon University,Instituto Superior Tecnico,Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability(CERIS);Lopes and Reis are grateful for the Foundation for Science and Technology’s support through funding UIDB/04625/2020 from the research unit CERIS;finantial support by FEDER-Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional,through COMPETE 2020-Programa Operacional Fatores de Competitividade;the National Funds through FCT-Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia,projects no.UID/FIS/04650/2019 and no.POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028118.
The spatial distribution of the world population is uneven,with a density of about 40%living in coastal regions.The trend is expected to continue in both demographic indicators and urban development rate,being many co...