Modeling the impact of infrastructure interdependencies on Virginia's highway transportation system

This project seeks to address the Virginia Department of Transportation's (VDOT) need to identify and manage the increasing number of interdependencies within its highway system. This study incorporates risk assessment and risk management methodologies in the analysis of four separate case studies involving VDOT assets. The results of this study provide insight not only as to how to manage the cascading effects of interdependent infrastructures within the individual case studies, but are applicable to the state of Virginia, as a whole. Management policies are recommended to unlock the interdependencies within the transportation system and thereby reduce the impact to the interdependencies following a transportation disruption