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Review on modeling the societal impact of infrastructure disruptions due to disasters

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  • Yang, Yongsheng
  • Liu, Huan
  • Mostafavi, Ali
  • Tatano, Hirokazu

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Infrastructure systems play a critical role in providing essential products and services for the functioning of modern society; however, they are vulnerable to disasters, and their service disruptions can cause severe societal impacts. To protect infrastructure from disasters and reduce potential impacts, great achievements have been made in modeling interdependent infrastructure systems in past decades. In recent years, scholars have gradually shifted their research focus to understanding and modeling societal impacts of disruptions considering the fact that infrastructure systems are critical because of their role in societal functioning, especially in situations of modern societies. Exploring how infrastructure disruptions impair society has become a key field of study. By comprehensively reviewing relevant studies, this paper demonstrated the definition and types of societal impact of infrastructure disruptions, and summarized the modeling approaches into four types: extended infrastructure modeling approaches, empirical approaches, agent-based approaches, and big data-driven approaches. For each approach, this paper organized relevant literature in terms of modeling ideas, advantages, and disadvantages. Furthermore, the four approaches were compared according to several criteria, including the input data, applicable societal impact types, spatial scales, and application contexts. Finally, this paper illustrated the challenges and future research directions in the field.

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  • Yang, Yongsheng & Liu, Huan & Mostafavi, Ali & Tatano, Hirokazu, 2025. "Review on modeling the societal impact of infrastructure disruptions due to disasters," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 257(PB).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:reensy:v:257:y:2025:i:pb:s0951832025000833
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2025.110879
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