InfraRisk: An Open-Source Simulation Platform for Asset-Level Resilience Analysis in Interconnected Infrastructure Networks

TL;DR

InfraRisk is an open-source Python-based simulation platform that models disaster impacts and recovery in interconnected water, power, and transportation networks to assess and improve infrastructure resilience.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive, asset-level simulation platform integrating multiple infrastructure modules for analyzing interdependent network resilience.

Findings

Simulates disaster-induced failures and recovery processes.

Provides system-level and consumer-level resilience metrics.

Enables policy experimentation for infrastructure resilience enhancement.

Abstract

Integrated simulation models are emerging as an alternative for analyzing large-scale interdependent infrastructure networks due to their modeling advantages over traditional interdependency models. This paper presents an open-source integrated simulation package for the asset-level analysis of interdependent infrastructure systems. The simulation platform, named 'InfraRisk' and developed in Python, can simulate disaster-induced infrastructure failures and subsequent post-disaster restoration in interconnected water-, power-, and road networks. InfraRisk consists of an infrastructure module, a hazard module, a recovery module, a simulation module, and a resilience quantification module. The infrastructure module integrates existing infrastructure network packages (wntr for water networks, pandapower for power systems, and a static traffic assignment model for transportation networks) through an interface that facilitates the network-level simulation of interdependent failures. The hazard module generates infrastructure component failure sequences based on various disaster characteristics. The recovery module determines repair sequences and assigns repair crews based on predefined heuristics-based recovery strategies or model predictive control (MPC) based optimization. Based on the schedule, the simulation module implements the network-wide simulation of the consequences of the disaster impacts and the recovery actions. The resilience quantification module offers system-level and consumer-level metrics to quantify both the risks and resilience of the integrated infrastructure networks against disaster events. InfraRisk provides a virtual platform for decision-makers to experiment and develop region-specific pre-disaster and post-disaster policies to enhance the overall resilience of interdependent urban infrastructure networks.