Coordinator(s):

Assoc Prof Pinchao Liao, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China PR

Objectives and Scopes:

In general the Task Group aims:

  • to contribute to the enhancement of the awareness of urban resilience
  • to encourage better research and education in support of resilient urbanization
  • to facilitate knowledge exchange and research feedback from different research groups worldwide
  • to stimulate incorporation of resilience engineering in urbanization processes.
  • In particular the Task Group aims:
  • to develop a metrics system that enables the measurement and benchmarking of urbanization resilience in support of decision making by policy makers.
  • Included in such metrics system will be (key) performance indicators that cover:
  • different aspects of resilience, including: technical, orgnizational, social en economic resilience
  • different dimensions of resilience, like: adaptability, mobility, safety and recovery
  • different subsystems of urbanization, like: transportation, education, health, electricity, water, culture, etceteras.

Current Work Programme:

Components of the Task Group Work Program are:

  • research definition
  • literature review, resulting in an assessment of available knowledge, tools and systems
  • development of a Framework with Resilience Performance Indexes through:
    • questionnaires
    • online Webinars and face-to-face workshops
  • framework validation against actual pre-and post-event data
  • development of sets of good practices and interference measures.

Planned Output:

  • Benchmarking framework on urban resilience, both with a theoretical justification and practical applicability
  • Web-based benchmarking system with a database of applications in disaster situations, with both pre- and post-disaster dataIn general the Task Group aims:
  • to contribute to the enhancement of the awareness of urban resilience
  • to encourage better research and education in support of resilient urbanization
  • to facilitate knowledge exchange and research feedback from different research groups worldwide
  • to stimulate incorporation of resilience engineering in urbanization processes.
  • In particular the Task Group aims:
  • to develop a metrics system that enables the measurement and benchmarking of urbanization resilience in support of decision making by policy makers.
  • Included in such metrics system will be (key) performance indicators that cover:
  • different aspects of resilience, including: technical, orgnizational, social en economic resilience
  • different dimensions of resilience, like: adaptability, mobility, safety and recovery
  • different subsystems of urbanization, like: transportation, education, health, electricity, water, culture, etceteras.

External Relations:

The Task Group will collaborate with the CIB Priority Theme: Resilient Urbanization

Membership:

Members of the Task Group are appointed representatives of CIB Member Organisations or Individual CIB Members

Status:

The Task Group was established in October 2013 with an extended mandate until the middle of 2019.