Community Resilience Systems Modeling

Purpose

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Community Resilience Systems Modeling team develops tools designed to assist communities in identifying viable community-scale resilience plans. The tools address specific challenges related to the breadth, large scale, and interdependencies of the community resilience planning system — those elements of our physical, social, and economic systems that determine a community’s resilience.

The computer models being developed help us identify which bridges and buildings it makes sense to make stronger.  Or what new roads, water tanks, or power lines we should add to maintain access to these vital services, or in the event we lose them, how much backup power and water we should have on hand at our hospitals, schools, and homes. See Full Project Description.

Products

Alternatives for Resilient Communities (ARC)

(ARC) is an interactive tool for developing alternative sets of actions that meet community resilience and cost goals, given hazard and interdependency information and socio-economic data.

NIST ARC is designed to assist a collaborative planning team in the identification of solutions as outlined in NIST’s Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems.  The target user of NIST ARC is an analyst working in close collaboration with the planning team.  The analyst would facilitate the team’s interactive use of NIST ARC, including refinement of targets and imposition of new constraints to address stakeholder comments or concerns, and to explore tradeoffs.

Supporting Codes

A range of supporting codes for scenario generation, uncertainty modeling, and AI surrogate modeling.

Supporting Codes