Design and implementation of a quantitative risk assessment software tool for Singapore road tunnels

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 13827-13834

  Qu, Xiaobo ^a   Meng, Qiang ^a   Yuanita, Vivi ^b   Wong, Yoke Heng ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b LAND TRANSPORT AUTHORITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Event tree; OOD; QRA model; Road tunnel; XML

Indexed keywords

CONSEQUENCE ESTIMATION; EVENT TREES; FAULT-TREES; OBJECT-ORIENTED DESIGN; OOD; QRA MODEL; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT; ROAD TUNNEL; SINGAPORE; SOFTWARE TOOL; TREE STRUCTURES; XML FILES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATING; ROADS AND STREETS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); XML;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79960026698     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.04.186     Document Type: Article

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