Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2026, 28(2):F18-F30 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2026.029

Integrating Resilience Indicators into Virtual Operations Support Team for Road Critical Infrastructure in Crisis Management

Ondřej Ryška ORCID...*, Patricie Gamonová
VSB - TUO, Faculty of Safety Engineering, Department of Civil Protection, Ostrava-Vyskovice, Czech Republic

Increasing disaster frequency intensifies the need for rapid, location-specific information in crisis management. A Virtual Operations Support Team (VOST) can enhance situational awareness by verifying open-source data, but these outputs are rarely transformed into resilience indicators. In this paper is presented a framework that maps verified VOST outputs and metadata to indicators for road critical infrastructure resilience and links them to the crisis decision cycle. A preliminary test on media data (1 Aug-31 Dec 2024; n = 2,045) confirmed a stable baseline and clear peaks usable for management-defined thresholds and trigger actions. The framework also outlines governance, supplier interfaces, and GIS-based operationalization of Exposure, Condition, Accessibility, and Consequence.

Keywords: scenario modelling, VOST, road infrastructure, resilience, indicators
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This research was supported by the VSB - Technical University of Ostrava under projects SP2026/006 and CL03000017.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Received: February 19, 2026; Accepted: March 27, 2026; Published: April 24, 2026  Show citation

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Ryška, O., & Gamonová, P. (2026). Integrating Resilience Indicators into Virtual Operations Support Team for Road Critical Infrastructure in Crisis Management. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 28(2), F18-30. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2026.029
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