While the trend towards building resilience in infrastructure systems for disaster risk reduction is accelerating, the application of infrastructure resilience is largely conceptual or an embellishment to established modelling techniques. In response, this paper sets out the theoretical foundations of infrastructure resilience, which broadly applies across critical infrastructure networks. This is followed by reviewing system-based and network-based approaches to resilience assessment with a focus on transport infrastructure, where there is an emerging body of studies. It spotlights critical issues in conflating resilience with other concepts of infrastructure safety management or merely tagging resilience on established methods, indicating a phenomenon of “old wine in new bottles”. Also, oversimplifying disruption scenarios does not provide a sufficient basis for informed resilience planning. This paper reminds readers to look beyond resilience as a mere buzzword and offers guidance on how to do so by recognising the theoretical and methodological cornerstones of infrastructure resilience.

虽然为减少灾害风险而在基础设施系统中建立弹性的趋势正在加速，但基础设施弹性的应用主要是概念性的或对已建立的建模技术的修饰。作为回应，本文阐述了基础设施弹性的理论基础，它广泛应用于关键基础设施网络。随后审查了基于系统和基于网络的复原力评估方法，重点是交通基础设施，那里有一个新兴的研究机构。它突出了将弹性与基础设施安全管理的其他概念混为一谈或仅在既定方法上标记弹性的关键问题，表明“新瓶装旧酒”现象。还，过度简化中断场景并不能为知情的弹性规划提供充分的基础。本文提醒读者不要将弹性视为仅仅是流行语，并通过认识基础设施弹性的理论和方法基石来提供有关如何做到这一点的指导。