System Complexity

Much of the critical infrastructure that is essential to support the needs of modern society comes in the form of a network. Examples include: transportation, gas and water distribution, and telecommunications. Modelling of these networked structures is undertaken to enhance their resilience.

The majority of the research conducted to date relates to the railway transportation network and the means to maximise its resilience to natural events such as flooding and periods of high temperature resulting from climate change. Work has also focussed on how to design, operate, and maintain a railway such that it is fault tolerant.