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Transcript of WAKE UP THE SLEEPING GIANT Dr. Walter Hays, Global Alliance For Disaster Reduction.
WAKE UP THE SLEEPING GIANT
Dr. Walter Hays,
Global Alliance For Disaster Reduction
APPENDIX A:
RESTORATION OF TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE
IT IS TIME FOR A “GLOBAL WAKE UP CALL”
UNDER-STANDUNDER-STAND
IDENT-IFY
IDENT-IFY
HEARHEAR
PERSON-ALIZE
PERSON-ALIZE ACTACT
1990-20101990-2010
PERIOD OF PERIOD OF INTEGRATIONINTEGRATION NOW NOW
WINDOW OF WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITYOPPORTUNITY
2121STST CENTURYCENTURY PERIOD OF PERIOD OF IMPLEMEN-IMPLEMEN-
TATIONTATION
THE SLEEPING GIANT IS
YOU (AND ME)
WAKE UP!
THE 21ST CENTURY’S WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY
• GLOBAL SOCIETAL RESILIENCE• WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO
ACCELERATE THE RECOVERY PROCESS AFTER EACH RECORD OR NEAR-RECORD DISASTER OF THE 21ST CENTURY
WHAT IS THE PAYOFF OF GLOBAL SOCIETAL
RESILIENCE
FAILURE: WE WILL HAVE DISASTERS DURING THE 21ST CENTURY THAT WILL MAKE 1990—2010’S DISASTERS LOOK
LIKE “A WALK IN THE PARK.”
SUCCESS: !!!!!
STRATEGY: TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE UNIQUENESS OF RECOVERY
• THE POLITICAL and MEDIA SPOTLIGHT IS ON ALL DECISIONS AND ACTIVITIES
• TOP PRIORITY: RESTORATION TO NORMAL (OR BETTER) AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE
• INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE, INSURANCE PAYOUTS, AND DONORS: ALWAYS AVAILABLE
TYPICAL TOP PRIORTIES DURING RECOVERY
1) RESTORATION OF TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE
2) RESTORATION OF ESSENTIAL FACILITIES-- SCHOOLS
RESTORATION OF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
AFTER A DISASTER
A PRIORITY FOR SOCIETAL RESILIENCE
A NATURAL DISASTER USUALLY PARALYZES LOCAL,
REGIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
LOSS OF FUNCTION OF A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
CAN PARALYZE LOCAL, REGIONAL, AND
INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
• Provide an essential functionessential function to society by moving people and goods from point “A” to point “B”
• Represent a substantial share of a substantial share of a country’s GDPcountry’s GDP (11% for USA.)
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
• Types: Roads, railroads, mass transit, water-borne and air transport systems, and pipelines
• Scales: urban, regional, national, and international.
ELEMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
• Built infrastructureBuilt infrastructure• roads, runways,
airports, terminals, railways, stations, canals, ports, traffic control centers, maintenance and operation facilities, pipelines, etc.
• Operations sideOperations side
• vehicles, traffic safety and control, power, commun-ications and signaling, maintenance, transportation operators, etc.
FEATURES THAT AFFECT RESILIENCY
Extend over broad geographical areas
Large number of components that are subject to either POINT or AREA failure.
FEATURES THAT AFFECT RESILIENCY (Continued)
Roadways and railways frequently follow river valleys (easier and cheaper to build)
Utilities, including pipelines, often follow right-of-ways (reduces legal problems and costs)
FEATURES THAT AFFECT RESILIENCY (Continued)
Multiple entities have responsibility for or oversight of the system
Typically owned by public entities and publicly funded
Usually self insured
FEATURES THAT AFFECT RESILIENCY (Continued)
Different modes of trans-portation are interconnected
They interact with each other and other elements of a community’s built environ-ment; hence, the name, Lifeline systems”.
HIGHWAY SYSTEMS
Flooding from tropical storms, hurricanes, and typhoons,Landslides (rock falls, spreads, slides, flows)Earthquakes (ground shaking)
TYPHOON MORAKOT: TAIWAN; LANDSLIDE BURIES VILLAGE OF 1,000
AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEMS
Earthquakes (ground shaking and ground failure)
RAILROAD SYSTEMS
Earthquakes (ground shaking and ground failure)
PIPELINE SYSTEMS
Earthquakes (ground shaking and ground failure)
YOUR YOUR COMMUNITYCOMMUNITY
YOUR YOUR COMMUNITYCOMMUNITY
DATA BASES DATA BASES AND INFORMATIONAND INFORMATIONDATA BASES DATA BASES AND INFORMATIONAND INFORMATION
HAZARDS: GROUND SHAKING GROUND FAILURE SURFACE FAULTING TECTONIC DEFORMATION TSUNAMI RUN UP AFTERSHOCKS
•NAT. HAZARDS•INVENTORY•VULNERABILITY•LOCATION
TRANS, SYSTEMSTRANS, SYSTEMS
RISK
ACCEPTABLE RISK
UNACCEPTABLE RISK
VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY REDUCTONREDUCTON
•LIFELINE STANDARDS•SITING AND ROUTING •EMERGENCY REPAIRS• RECONSTRUCTION•EDUCATIONAL SURGE
RISK MANAGEMENTRISK MANAGEMENT