Understanding marine transport resilience to the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake through recovery modelling in south-coastal British Columbia

dc.contributor.authorBell, Anika
dc.contributor.supervisorBristow, David
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-18T19:18:43Z
dc.date.copyright2020en_US
dc.date.issued2020-02-18
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Civil Engineeringen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Applied Science M.A.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractMarine transportation systems provide a vital lifeline to coastal communities. Coastal British Columbia (BC) is dependent on marine transportation for goods distribution, public transportation, and tourism. This marine transportation dependence can challenge the region’s capability to withstand large disruptions. This work seeks to gain a detailed understanding of the southern British Columbia marine transportation system, with regards to food and public transportation to Vancouver Island. This includes the public ferry corporation, BC Ferries, and the private cargo trailer transporter, Seaspan Ferries Corporation. To do this, a model is presented that graphically simulates the system response and recovery timelines following disruption. The model is created using the python-based Graph Model for Operational Resilience (GMOR) platform. The model includes the interdependent relationships of systems and provides results with respect to cascade failure. The disruption scenario used in this case-study is the region’s projected M9.0 Cascadia subduction zone earthquake. The step-by-step recovery timeline produced by the model is intended to provide stakeholders with a concrete example of how recovery could unfold for their operations. The results indicate that berth infrastructure recovery is the limiting factor for terminal recovery, in most cases. For the public, these results show that it would be prudent for Nanaimo households to ensure they have five days’ worth of food, water, and medicine in their earthquake preparedness supplies, and seven days’ worth for Victoria households. This work builds on the existing GMOR platform to provide re-usable dependency templates for marine transportation infrastructure. Future work includes sensitivity analyses of risk treatments and stakeholder review. Finally, this model may be applied to other disruption scenarios or incorporated with other models to cover a larger disruption recovery scope.en_US
dc.description.embargo2021-02-04
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/11579
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectdisasteren_US
dc.subjectrecoveryen_US
dc.subjectmodellingen_US
dc.subjectdependencyen_US
dc.subjectinterdependencyen_US
dc.subjectGMORen_US
dc.subjectGraph Model for Operational Resilienceen_US
dc.subjectBC Ferriesen_US
dc.subjectSeaspan Ferriesen_US
dc.subjectearthquakeen_US
dc.subjectCascadiaen_US
dc.subjectsubduction zoneen_US
dc.subjectmarine transportationen_US
dc.subjectcoastalen_US
dc.subjectBritish Columbiaen_US
dc.subjectHazusen_US
dc.subjectM9.0 earthquakeen_US
dc.subjectfood distributionen_US
dc.subjectVancouver Islanden_US
dc.subjectVancouveren_US
dc.subjectlower mainlanden_US
dc.titleUnderstanding marine transport resilience to the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake through recovery modelling in south-coastal British Columbiaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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