Reliability analysis of state transportation network under path failure strategies (wip)

Transportation in the form of passenger or non-passenger (freight) services forms the backbone of any economy. In either case, the transportation network plays a very important role. Hence, ensuring the network stays resilient all the time, especially in the face of challenges such as heavy traffic loads and large-scale natural disasters, is of utmost importance. In this study, a network model is developed to calculate reliability by considering the critical paths of a transportation network using the UCINET simulation tool. The implementation of this network model used two path failure strategies (selective and random) using the Betweenness Centrality as a metric. Our preliminary results show that the UCINET tool can be used to successfully estimate the reliability and to further identify the critical paths of a highway transportation network in California.