The first journal article from our NSF RAPID research project on the socio-technical resilience of Louisiana to the Hurricane Isaac power outage and restoration, which was described in this post, has come out in ASCE’s Journal of Infrastructure Systems. You can grab the article here.
Have you ever had the power go out at your home or your place of work? I think everyone’s hands go up at this question. What’s the longest you’ve gone without power? You in the back: 13 days?! Wow. Personally, I’ve never gone more than a day. I’ve met the people who restore the power …
I am on a plane returning from New Jersey where I was attending a workshop hosted by the Kostas Institute. It was supposed to be a workshop to synthesize lessons on transportation resilience in light of Hurricane Sandy’s impact in New York and New Jersey. Many, if not most, conversations would actually turn to power systems–how …