Transportation Infrastructure Readiness for Post-Pandemic Supply Chain Transformation for Greater Resilience: Part 2 – Readiness & Resilience

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• Creators:
  Miller-Hooks, Elise ; Chen, Qiang ; Huang, Edward
• Corporate Creators:
  George Mason University ; Pennsylvania State University. Thomas D. Larson Transportation Institute ; Center for Integrated Asset Management for Multimodal Transportation Infrastructure Systems (CIAMTIS) (UTC)
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Resilience (Materials)
  • Supply chain management
  • Sustainable development
  • National security
  • Infrastructure
  • Communicable diseases
  • Economic impacts readiness
  • reshoring
  • onshoring
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final Report
• Corporate Publisher:
  Center for Integrated Asset Management for Multimodal Transportation Infrastructure Systems (CIAMTIS) (UTC)
• Abstract:
  This project evaluated United States transportation infrastructure readiness for supply chain reshoring in critical products. It asked, “Can our civil infrastructure support U.S.-based production increase from reshoring should we bring manufacturing back to the U.S.?” To support this study, a quantitative evaluation framework with impact analysis, national resilience evaluation, and tradeoffs assessment modules was developed to estimate and tradeoff infrastructure and environmental impacts against national resilience and economic improvements resulting from reshoring. Findings from application of the framework on a scenario involving reshoring of N95 filtering facepiece respirators and microchips were obtained. Readiness for large-scale reshoring in a much broader array of industrial sectors was also evaluated. Results indicate potentially significant benefits from reshoring in terms of national resilience and other economic metrics. Moreover, it also found that the existing U.S. transportation infrastructure should be sufficient to support large-scale reshoring efforts, but at significant costs to some locations.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  69A3551847103
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/78119/dot_78119_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.32 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers
• Main Document Checksum:
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