Research

The BRIANS Lab focuses on resilient infrastructure systems at the intersection of transportation operations, natural hazards, climate extremes, artificial intelligence, and governance-aware decision support.

Rail Infrastructure Under Climate Extremes

We study how extreme heat, flooding, and other climate hazards affect rail infrastructure, operations, slow orders, maintenance needs, and long-term adaptation decisions.

Wildfire, WUI Governance, and Adaptive Capacity

We examine how communities, agencies, households, land managers, and utilities coordinate mitigation and preparedness in wildfire-prone wildland-urban interface regions.

AI for Transportation and Infrastructure Operations

We develop multimodal AI tools that combine weather, infrastructure condition, traffic, rail, remote sensing, and operational data to support decision-making.

Evacuation, ABM, and Emergency Mobility

We use agent-based modeling, network analysis, and simulation to evaluate evacuation behavior, emergency transportation performance, and community resilience.