Data Processing on Large Interdependent Networks: An Application for Infrastructure Preparedness, and Restoration

Abstract

This paper presents a method for validating and transforming data for use in interdependent infrastructure network analysis. Critical infrastructure are interdependent on each other for delivery of services and execution of restoration activities.  These interdependencies make infrastructure systems vulnerable to extreme events and highlights the needs for preparedness and response plans.  Optimization models have been used to create effective plans using interdependent infrastructure networks.  These models require accurate input data.  However, many data sources have inconsistencies or errors which inhibit the ability to use such optimization models.   This work identifies common errors in input network data and provides a method for processing and correcting these errors.  We demonstrate the effectiveness of this method on data representing the transportation network in Juan Diaz town, in Panama.

 

Keywords: Data processing, network, infrastructure, interdependence.

References
[1] Ahuja, R. K., Magnanti, T. L., & Orlin, J. B. (1993). Network flows: theory, algorithms, and applications.


[2] Anton, H. (2010). Elementary linear algebra. John Wiley & Sons.


[3] Cavdaroglu, B., Hammel, E., Mitchell, J. E., Sharkey, T. C., & Wallace, W. A. (2013). Integrating restoration and scheduling decisions for disrupted interdependent infrastructure systems. Annals of Operations Research, 203(1): 279-294.


[4] Chang, S. E., McDaniels, T. L., Mikawoz, J., & Peterson, K. (2007). Infrastructure failure interdependencies in extreme events: Power outage consequences in the 1998 Ice Storm. Natural Hazards, 41(2), 337-358.


[5] Contraloría General de la Republica de Panamá (2010). “Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo.”, XI Censo Nacional de Población y VII de Vivienda 2010: Lugares Poblados de la República: 2010. http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/INEC/Publicaciones/Default.aspx. Accessed February 15, 2017.


[6] Cormen, T. H., Leiserson, C. E., Rivest, R. L., & Stein, C. (2009). Introduction to Algorithms. Third Edition Cambridge: MIT press.


[7] Deo, N. (1974). Graph theory with applications to engineering and computer science. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall.


[8] Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). Coordinate systems, projections, and transformations, ArcGIS Pro Online help. Retrieved from http://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/mapping/properties/-coordinate-systemsand-projections.htm. Accessed June 10, 2017


[9] EM-DAT: The Emergency Events Database - Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) - Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), D. Guha-Sapir, www.emdat.be, Brussels, Belgium. Accessed June 14, 2017.


[10] Guha-Sapir, D., Hargitt, D., & Hoyois, P. (2004). Thirty years of natural disasters 1974– 2003: The numbers. Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters: Presses Universitaires de Louvain.


[11] Lee, E. E., Mitchell, J. E., & Wallace, W. A. (2007). Restoration of services in interdependent infrastructure systems: A network flows approach. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C (Applications and Reviews), 37(6), 1303-1317.


[12] Matisziw, T. C., Murray, A. T., & Grubesic, T. H. (2009). Exploring the vulnerability of network infrastructure to disruption. The Annals of Regional Science, 43(2), 307-321.


[13] Nagurney, A., & Qiang, Q. (2008). A network efficiency measure with application to critical infrastructure networks. Journal of Global Optimization, 40(1), 261-275.


[14] Rinaldi, S. M., Peerenboom, J. P., & Kelly, T. K. (2001). Identifying, understanding, and analyzing critical infrastructure interdependencies. IEEE Control Systems, 21(6), 11-25.


[15] Sharkey, T. C., Cavdaroglu, B., Nguyen, H., Holman, J., Mitchell, J. E., & Wallace, W. A. (2015). Interdependent Network Restoration: Modeling Restoration Interdependencies and Evaluating the Value of Information-Sharing. European Journal of Operational Research, 244(1), pages 309-321.


[16] Sharkey, T. C., Nurre, S. G., Nguyen, H., Chow, J. H., Mitchell, J. E., & Wallace, W. A. (2016). Identification and classification of restoration interdependencies in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 22(1), 04015007


[17] U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (2013). National Infrastructure Protection Plan 2013: Partnering for Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience. Retrieved from https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files-/publications/nationalinfrastructure-protection-plan-2013-508.pdf