Resilience and Disaster Recovery (RDR) Tool Suite

Description:

The RDR Tool Suite enables transportation agencies to assess transportation resilience return on investment (ROI) for specific transportation assets over a range of potential future conditions and hazard scenarios, which can then be used as a consideration in existing project prioritization processes. The tool suite utilizes established Robust Decision-Making concepts developed to build on current TDM analyses and address deeply uncertain future scenarios. The RDR Tool Suite was developed at the US Dept. of Transportation's Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in support of FHWA and the Office of the Secretary of Transportation.

Installation and Usage:

The RDR Tool Suite is a Python based tool.

The RDR Exposure Analysis Tool and components of other helper tools are ESRI ArcGIS Pro based tools.

Detailed installation and usage instructions are explained in the RDR User Guide documentation here: https://github.com/VolpeUSDOT/RDR-Public/blob/main/documentation/RDR_UserGuide_final.pdf

• Download the latest release on the Releases page.
• Install the required dependencies (including ESRI ArcGIS Pro if using the RDR Exposure Analysis Tool or components of other helper tools).
• The documentation and quick start scenario files are included with the code release.

Using this code

The Python dependencies are detailed in environment.yml. This assumes you have an installation of Python 3.7 and conda. These steps follow this reference. There are R components as well, which will be installed by conda in the R package library within the user's RDR conda environment.

From your Anaconda Prompt terminal, navigate to the location where you cloned this repository and run the following:

conda env create -f environment.yml
conda info --envs

You should see RDRenv show up as an available environment.

Contributing:

Add bugs and feature requests to the Issues tab in the RDR-Public GitHub repository for the Volpe Development Team to triage.

Credits:

• Kristin C. Lewis, PhD (Volpe) RDR-Team@dot.gov
• Jonathan Badgley (Volpe)
• Andrew Breck (Volpe)
• Juwon Drake (Volpe)
• Daniel Flynn, PhD (Volpe)
• Olivia Gillham (Volpe)
• Michelle Gilmore (Volpe)
• Alexander Oberg (Volpe)
• Tess Perrone (Volpe)
• Gretchen Reese (Volpe)
• Scott Smith, PhD (Volpe)
• Kevin Zhang, PhD (Volpe)

Project Sponsors:

The development of the RDR Tool Suite that contributed to the original public version was funded by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration under Interagency Agreement (IAA) 693JJ319N300014 under the supervision of Michael Culp of the FHWA Office of Natural Environment and by the U.S. Dept. of Transportation under IAA 693JK421NT800008 under the supervision of Shawn Johnson of the Office of Research, Development and Technology (OST-R). Current development is sponsored through IAAs with OST-R under supervision of OST-R's Hamid Ghasemi and Shawn Johnson. 'Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the FHWA or OST-R.

Acknowledgements:

The RDR team thanks our beta testers and collaborators at the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization, the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission, the Houston-Galveston Area Council, and the Hillsborough Transportation Planning Organization, as well as Virginia DOT and Florida DOT, for their input during development.

License:

This project is licensed under the terms of the RDR End User License Agreement. Please read it carefully.