Abstract

With increasing pressure from the impact of climate change, urban transit operators aim to improve their networks’ resilience against both small disturbances and larger disruptions and outages. To be applicable in pre-planning or emergency response, such measures and strategies have to be thoroughly evaluated. To aid this evaluation process, this paper presents different operational strategies – and their systematic evaluation using a bi-modal transit simulation model – designed to increase the resilience of urban transit networks against the impact of climate change. To illustrate the application of such a system, the paper examines the strategies, including both delay management and disruption management measures based on a simulation model of the urban transit network of the city of Cologne, Germany.