Behavioural Resilience

As climate change makes weather patterns more extreme and unpredictable, the threats to infrastructure and public transport disruptions grow. At the same time, the number of people relying on these infrastructures is also growing. A more resilient transportation system can help to mitigate climate-driven disruptions as they occur. So far, however, resilience network models assume that the demand for transportation does not change in extreme events - although we know that there are major behavioural shifts during extreme events. In this project, we therefore aim to integrate the behavioural perspective into the conventional network resilience models.  We do so, by studying how behaviour changes, and then integrating our findings into resilience network models. Specifically this project focuses on transport in Amsterdam and The Hague, Netherlands. The ultimate goal is to inform decision makers so that they can understand bottlenecks and can improve the resilience of invest in resilient (transportation) networks.