Resilience of transport infrastructure: a decision support tool for defining scenarios involving the transport of dangerous goods

The resilience of critical transport and mobility infrastructure is an increasingly pressing issue, with implications that span socio-economic and political domains. Both man-made and natural events can affect transport networks, generating impacts not only in the immediate vicinity of the event but also across vast geographical areas. For this reason, analyzing and assessing the resilience associated with such events is essential for considering representative disruption scenarios for mobility infrastructures.
In this context, the CONPROVA Project, funded under the Italy-Switzerland Cross-Border Cooperation Program (Interreg VI-A) 2021-2027, builds on and extends the functionalities already available within the Critical Infrastructure Platform, which adopts a collaborative, cross-border approach to resource management and emergency response for transport infrastructure.
Within this enhanced framework, this paper presents a tool designed to support the analysis of events involving the transport of dangerous goods. The Dangerous Goods Transport module enables users to estimate areas potentially affected by hazardous material spills and to identify potential targets (e.g., schools, hospitals) located within those areas. The paper describes the tool's main features and presents application examples to illustrate its possible use in both planning activities and emergency management.

Keywords: Transport resilience, Transport management, Mobility management, Dangerous Goods Transport, Critical Infrastructure, Cross-border, Information-sharing, Transport, ICT platform, Use-case, Emergency management.