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Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
Luxembourg will offer companies ideal conditions through a nationwide network of intelligent
infrastructures and services.
Resilience and the Transportation System for Luxembourg
The interventions identified in the TIR transport scenario will play an active role towards
improving the economy and mitigating climate change. The challenge for transport planners
and administrators is to ensure that the new mobility system, based on electricity from
renewable sources, sharing, and automation, will guarantee high levels of accessibility and
satisfaction of mobility needs, with an adequate level of service in terms of travel time, travel
comfort, accessibility and reliability.At the same time, the transport system must be resilient to
short and long-term disruption of services brought on by cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and
extreme weather events.
The transportation system is one of the fundamental assets of a community: it is essential to
allow people to reach workplaces, schools, and shops, to distribute goods, and provide services.
Its malfunctioning may cause severe consequences in the resilience of the whole economic
system (city resilience). In the case of extraordinary events, the transport system must be
capable of returning to the previous existing equilibrium or be able to change, adapt and
transform itself in response to qualitative stresses and strains that change the very nature of
the society. The transport system must therefore have a high level of built-in resilience.
The resilience of a transportation system can be defined in different ways:
For the individual it means that each person has several alternative transport options to choose
from, even under unexpected or catastrophic conditions, and in case their chosen option is not
available any more (e.g. car breaks down, public transport is not available, person becomes
disabled; personal income drops dramatically…)
For society it means that the transport system will guarantee the mobility of persons and goods
even under unexpected conditions, in case a partial failure occurs to the transportation system
(for example: unavailability of an infrastructure) or a complete failure occurs in a system which
is complementary to the transport system (for example in the case of IoT: unavailability of
electric power because of a catastrophic natural disaster or a cyber-attack).
Looking at the elements that make up the transportation system, failure may occur at four
fundamental levels: the strategic level (long term economic, social and environmental goals);
the economic level (assessment of the cost of the resources required for transportation) the
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