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Logistik, Verkehr und Umwelt / Logistics, Traffic and Environment
Kontakt / Contact
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Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Frye
Luftverkehrslogistik /
Aviation Logistics
Tel. +49 69 668 118 350
heinrich.frye@
iml.fraunhofer.de
Dipl.-Logist. Daniela Kirsch
Verkehrslogistik /
Transportation Logistics
Tel. +49 231 9743-345
daniela.kirsch@
iml.fraunhofer.de
Marcus Hintze M. Sc.
Health Care Logistics
Tel. +49 231 9743-504
marcus.hintze@
iml.fraunhofer.de
How to Make Towns and Cities
More Resilient
/ With a view to increasing the resilience of urban living
environments in the face of harmful influences such as climate
change, natural disasters and terrorist attacks, various technologies,
concepts and structures are being developed as part of
the project called “RuLe” (“Resilience of urban living environments”).
The holistic approach encompasses the physical
infrastructure as well as the organizational and data levels.
Seven Fraunhofer Institutes have been collaborating closely on
the project for a period of 11 months.
Recent torrential rain events have once again shown that
resilience comes down to maintaining various infrastructures
and services, and to their ability to function properly. With
this in mind, researchers from Fraunhofer IML identified and
analyzed some typical transport chains for critical goods and
services in urban environments, as well as the related networks
and parties involved. Process descriptions were drawn up with
reference to two selected major catastrophic events, consisting
of a “tunnel fire” scenario in addition to the “torrential rain”
scenario. These descriptions were then used to construct the
equipment for demonstrating the use of sensors and to design
the communication and data structures – which included a
resilience data space to serve as an information hub for the
organizations and parties involved.
The new approaches that have been devised for assessing the
resilience of urban living environments involve the use of resilience
indicators and combining causal networks and probability
theory with logistical analyses of transport routes and technical
infrastructure simulations. In this way, the researchers are
providing a basis for analyzing and assessing the resilience of
urban living environments and for managing and overcoming
crisis situations that occur within this context. These methods
are now being offered as new services by Fraunhofer.
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