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Dr. Michael Sing

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School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
Interests: smart asset management; building surveying; project performance; project evaluation; policy modelling; construction digitalisation
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Dr. Johnny K.W. Wong

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School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
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Dear Colleagues,

Critical infrastructure underpins the delivery of essential services such as power, water, transportation, and communications systems. It plays a critical role in boosting productivity, achieving the continued provision of essential services, and supporting national security and economic growth. The increasing complexity of infrastructure projects necessitates a focus on developing a safer, more resilient, and sustainable design strategies, standards, and regulatory framework. This Special Issue welcomes papers on:

Approaches to, and theoretical and/or regulatory frameworks for, assessing the resilience of critical infrastructure elements;
Promoting and reviewing the technologies necessary to support the development of sustainable critical infrastructure systems;
Risk assessments and mitigation strategies for advancing our understanding of where risks exist in the critical infrastructure;
Case studies that demonstrate examples of technologies and management strategies developed to enhance the safety, resilience, and sustainability of critical infrastructure;
Future perspectives that bridge the topics of critical infrastructure safety, resilience and sustainability.

Dr. Michael C.P. Sing
Dr. Johnny K.W. Wong
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critical infrastructure
resilience assessment
risk assessment and control
sustainability

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Urban Living Labs and Critical Infrastructure Resilience: A Global Match?

by Erick Elysio Reis Amorim, Monique Menezes and Karoline Vitória Gonçalves Fernandes

Sustainability 2022, 14(16), 9826; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14169826 - 09 Aug 2022

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The challenges to public policy brought by climate change are some of the biggest challenges for cities around the world. These challenges are costlier and more substantial for low-income communities given the existence of their greater social and economic vulnerability. Among the existing tools, this paper highlights the role played by urban living labs (ULLs), which have been discussed in the literature as a booster of urban resilience in a more sustainable direction. By considering ULLs as strategic institutional arrangements that seek resilience for the critical urban infrastructure challenges of climate change, the main target of this paper is to analyze ULLs as a strategy for increasing critical infrastructure resilience in the region of the Global South. These labs were initiated in developed countries, so we can ask: How are developing countries adapting this strategy in order to mitigate the problems of climate change? To achieve this goal, we reviewed previous literature on ULLs, specifically looking for case studies with ULL projects and highlighting the processes of public innovation policies and transfers of knowledge between countries; in order to complement our empirical analysis, we carried out a case study on Brazil. Despite the limitations of the sample, the data suggest the existence of different barriers to the implementation of ULL projects in Brazil compared to those in European cities. Full article

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Road Network Vulnerability Based on Diversion Routes to Reconnect Disrupted Road Segments

by Amir Al Hamdi Redzuan, Rozana Zakaria, Aznah Nor Anuar, Eeydzah Aminudin and Norbazlan Mohd Yusof

Sustainability 2022, 14(4), 2244; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14042244 - 16 Feb 2022

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The reliance on roads to provide fluent mobilization has raised great concern when facing functional degradation. Disruption of the critical segments of a road network may significantly increase the distance traveled by a community. This paper proposes a method for measuring road network vulnerability when facing disruption by assessing all road segments within a network. The assessment is based on two of the shortest disjointed diversion routes from one end of the segment to the other, supporting the strategy of reaching equilibrium flow in an emergency condition. To generate diversion routes for the purpose of reconnecting a disrupted segment, the shortest path patterns are generated through the formation of adjacent polygons using GIS. Accordingly, this paper proposes a segment vulnerability index based on the support of diversion routes. Additionally, the model introduces supporting vulnerability, a parameter for measuring the potential of a road segment becoming a supporting diversion route when its surrounding segments are disrupted. By adopting the Malaysian Peninsular road network as a case study, the developed index can assist transportation agencies in planning and maintaining road assets while prioritizing vulnerable road segments relative to the entire road network. Full article

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