Resilience of Critical Infrastructure

The availability and functionality of the traffic routes is an essential requirement for social participation, the maintenance of supply and disposal, and further prosperous economic development in our collaborative and globalized society. Simultaneously, threats from extreme weather events favored by climate change or threats from terrorism are becoming increasingly important.

For this reason, the Federal Government and the European Commission attach great importance to the protection of this critical infrastructures. In order to protect our traffic routes from these dangers, their resilience must be increased. Resilient traffic routes are prepared for hazards and can ward them off, cope with them, recover from them as quickly as possible, and adapt to them more and more successfully.

In our research projects, we develop procedures and methods to identify particularly critical parts of the transport network. We elaborate solutions that enable an analysis of the threat situation and assess their effects and risks.

With partners from various specialist disciplines, we evaluate measures and instruments to increase the resilience of traffic routes specifically. Our analyzes focus equally on the network-wide traffic flow and the individual road users and aim at their effective protection.

PTV's simulation and modeling tools are an integral part of the processes we have developed and enable us to make well-founded statements based on reliable data.