Author Description

This book provides an integrated and up-to-date overview of resilience thinking applied to urban transit systems, with a clear structure reflecting the logical progression from understanding vulnerabilities to implementing enhancement strategies. This book reveals the hidden complexities and interdependencies within urban transit systems that affect their resilience performance; presents analytical models, evaluation methods, and practical planning strategies for assessing and strengthening transit resilience; showcases real-world applications and evidence-based practices to demonstrate how resilience can be embedded in transit operations and management; promotes a deeper understanding of current advancements and inspires further research and implementation of resilience-oriented solutions in urban transit systems.