Resilience and Disaster Recovery Tool Suite

To select and prioritize infrastructure construction and roadway improvement projects, Federal, State and local governments, as well as private industry, need reliable cost and performance metrics. Such metrics can change rapidly under hazard conditions such as flooding, storms, earthquake, and others; what’s more, these hazards are highly uncertain. To accurately assess the value of an investment, it is important to understand how that investment will affect cost and performance not only in ordinary circumstances, but also under a range of potential hazard conditions.  Therefore, agencies need to incorporate the cost and benefits of resilience into the transportation planning decision-making process to make informed decisions about future infrastructure investments.  

The Resilience and Disaster Recovery (RDR) Tool Suite was developed to help transportation agencies estimate the return on investment (ROI) of resilient infrastructure across a range of uncertain future hazards (such as flooding, earthquake, etc.) for long-range transportation planning.

The RDR Tool Suite is open source and can be accessed here.