The Effectiveness of Improvement Measures in Road Transport Network Resilience: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Jie Liu, Jingrong Zhu (), Di Lu, Donghui Yuan and Hossein Azadi
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Jie Liu: School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
Jingrong Zhu: School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
Di Lu: Investment and Financing Consulting Business Department, China International Engineering Consulting Corporation, Beijing 100089, China
Donghui Yuan: China Construction Third Bureau First Engineering Co., Ltd., Wuhan 430040, China
Hossein Azadi: Department of Economics and Rural Development, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech University of Liège, 5030 Liège, Belgium

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 13, 1-17

Abstract: Achieving improvement in the resilience of road transport networks by ensuring their smooth functioning and prompt recovery in the event of damage is crucial. This study focused on optimal measures and compared the effect of improvement measures on the resilience of road transport networks. A meta-analysis was performed to assess whether and to what degree the resilience of road transport networks was improved with different categories of measures. The articles were divided based on improvement measures, such as infrastructure investment, structure and planning, traffic signal management, and recovery schedule. The methodology of how to define and measure the resilience of road transport networks is considerably diverse, and most definitions are based on basic infrastructure structures. The efficiency of four types of improvement methods was grouped: structure and planning, infrastructure investment, recovery schedule, and traffic signal management. This study supports the use of structure and planning as a promising way for improving the resilience of road transport networks. Increasing comparability in studies and finally developing effective improvement measures in transport planning and decision making require more precise conceptual and methodological standardization in road transport network resilience.

Keywords: infrastructure investment; structure and planning; traffic signal management; recovery schedule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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