Population growth, economic development, and rapid urbanization in many areas have led
to increased exposure and vulnerability of structural and infrastructure systems to hazards …

Due to the increasing frequency of disastrous events, the challenge of creating large-scale
simulation models has become of major significance. Indeed, several simulation strategies …

The critical worldwide problem of adapting urban transport planning to COVID-19 is for the
first time comprehensively addressed and solved in this study. It primarily aims to help …

Resilience indicators are a convenient tool to assess the resilience of engineering systems.
They are often used in preliminary designs or in the assessment of complex systems. This …

Understanding human behavior and predicting evacuation processes subsequently to an
earthquake are critical aspects to provide valuable information to support disaster response …

Fuzzy decision-making and analytic hierarchical processes are ubiquitously used to predict
the seismic damage and vulnerability of building clusters. However, the factors affecting the …

Understanding the process of community recovery impacted by various post-disaster
decisions such as dynamic policies can effectively guide the recovery process and expedite …

Natural hazards regularly cause severe damage to infrastructure systems. While these risks
are highly unpredictable, the concept of resilience can be employed to make infrastructure …

The multiple uncertainties of both natural and human-caused disasters have attracted
increased attention to the topic of resilience engineering. In this paper, an indicator-based …

Hospital emergency departments are highly important systems and treat injured people
during earthquakes. It is essential that their functionality is maintained during or recovered …