Impact of distance rules on infrastructure resilience

Due to the current pandemic situation, distance rules have been implemented in most countries to reduce contact and thus infection risk. The impact of these distance rules can be experienced in everyday's life but it also influences infrastructure processes. In this work, the quantified impact of distance rules on infrastructure performance is investigated. The example infrastructure considered here is an international airport and the passenger behavior is represented using an Agent-Based Model (ABM) which has been developed in the EU-H2020 project SATIE (Security of Air Transport Infrastructure of Europe). Varying distance rules in the ABM enables to quantify the impact on the airport's performance during normal operation but also under specific cyber-physical threat scenarios and to estimate the infrastructure resilience.