The kick-off meeting of the new CEN Workshop “Assessment of the resilience of transport infrastructure to potentially disruptive events” took place on the 14th of January.
An important milestone of the FORESEE Project will be to pioneer the pre-standardisation route in the field of transport infrastructure resilience. Concretely, a group of experts from public administration, private sector, research and standardisation bodies will work together during the coming months to develop a specific methodology through the CEN Workshop and working hand in hand with the EU H2020 research project FORESEE.
The first meeting served to introduce the working procedure, initial and to appoint its governance including a Chairman (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) and a Secretariat (UNE, Spain). It approved the project “Guidelines for the assessment of resilience of transport infrastructure to potentially disruptive events”, which will provide a guide to determine, firstly, how to measure the resilience of transport infrastructure to potentially disruptive events and, secondly, how to set targets for resilience of transport infrastructure to potentially disruptive events both natural (i.e. floodings, heavy snowfalls, earthquakes) and manmade (i.e. accidents or terrorism).
For further information about the CEN Workshop, please contact Aitor Aragón: [email protected]
