Tunnel safety, risk assessment and decision-making

Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 91-94

  Beard, Alan N ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Risk assessment; Tunnel safety

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; TUNNEL FIRES; TUNNEL SAFETY;

DECISION MAKING; RISK MANAGEMENT; WIND TUNNELS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN UNION; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; TUNNEL;

EID: 74249116388     PISSN: 08867798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tust.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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