Climate-resilient railway networks: A resource-aware framework

The authors present a probabilistic framework to evaluate the resilience of railway infrastructure systems subjected to compound climate hazards that manifest themselves by SLR and extreme hydraulic hazards as a result of hurricanes.

Findings indicate that sea-level rise considerably affects service reinstatement, reducing resilience index up to 80% when combined with hurricanes. Resource allocation strategies also impact resilience, with variations resulting in up to 75% differences in resilience estimates. These results underscore the need to consider resource constraints and sea-level rise in resilience planning, offering nuanced resilience quantification to support decision-making for mitigation and response strategies, benefiting policymakers, infrastructure managers, insurers, and agencies.