PTV is concentrating on the development of a procedure to determine the operational vulnerability of underground public transport stops, including their significance for the overall network. The method is based on macroscopic transport demand models. It is also embedded in an overall process that includes vulnerability assessment from the building and user's point of view. The overall procedure forms the basis for increasing the resilience of public transport systems. PTV is also working on the question of whether and to what extent new forms of mobility can be used in the event of a damage to the public transport system, in order to prepare modal shifts and to mitigate the effects of the breakdown.
U-THREAT is part of the programme "Research for Civil Security" (www.sifo.de) and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the French National Agency for Research (ANR) within the framework of the funding call "Future Security in Urban Spaces".
