Building Resilient and Sustainable Cities Starting from the Urban Transport System

The concept of resilience is emerging as one of the hot topics in several sectors. One of the most challenging sectors is that of the critical infrastructures which are present in our cities and involve the day life of everybody. Among these critical infrastructures probably the most prominent is the urban transport system since it is typically used as a resource for many other social and economic activities, and also to rescue and move people in the case of threat. In this context the European Commission has launched a number of projects with the aim of defining the European Resilience Management Guidelines, ERMG. Among those projects working on ERMG, the “Resilience management guidelines and operationalization applied to Urban Transport Environment (RESOLUTE)” project is focussed on the resilience aspects of urban transport system, and contributes to the global scenarios creating the guidelines and putting them into play (e.g., operationalize) with a number of real executable tools connected with the urban data by following a big data approach. This chapter is focused on presenting the state of the art of resilience conceptual structure for Urban Transport System (UTS) and the main aspects of RESOLUTE EC H2020 project.