WASHINGTON, D.C. — Transportation stakeholders are taking a lesson from the pandemic and taking steps to ensure a resilient supply chain, so future disasters don’t turn into catastrophes.
“There’s a difference,” said Jose Holguin-Veras, director, Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment (CITE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. “A disaster assumes a region has the resources to respond within three days.
“A catastrophe wipes out the local capacity to respond.”
Holguin-Veras...