The need for a new approach to road tunnels risk analysis

Advances in Safety, Reliability and Risk Management - Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2562-2569

  Kirytopoulos, K ^a   Kazaras, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN COMMISSION; QUANTITATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK ACCEPTANCE; RISK ANALYSIS METHODS; ROAD TUNNEL; SAFETY MEASURES; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS; TUNNEL CHARACTERISTICS;

RISK MANAGEMENT; ROADS AND STREETS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 84856707875     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (27)

1. Apostolakis, G. 2004. How useful is Quantitative Risk Assessement?, Risk Analysis 24(3): 515-520.
2. Arends, B.J., Jonkman, S.N. & Vrijling, J.K. 2005. Evaluation of tunnel safety: towards an economic safety optimum. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 90: 217-228.
3. Aven, T. 2003. Foundations of risk analysis. New York: Wiley.
4. Beard, A. & Carvel, R. 2005. The Handbook of Tunnel Fire Safety. London: Thomas Telford.
5. Beard, A. 2010. Tunnel safety, risk assessment and decision-making. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology 25:91-94.
6. Bier, V. 1999. Challenges to the acceptance of probabilistic risk analysis. Risk Analysis 19(4): 703-710.
7. Checkland, P. 1981. Systems Thinking, Systems Practice New York: John Wiley & Sons.
8. COVO Report. 1982. Risk Analysis of Six Potentially Hazardous Industrial Objects in the Rijnmond Area, A Pilot Study, Reidel Publ. Co, Dordrecht.
9. Dulac, N & Leveson, N. An approach to incorporating safety in early concept formation and system architecture evaluations. In Lacoste H, editor. Proceedings of the first IAASS conference on space safety, a new beginning, 2005.
10. EC, 2004. Directive on minimum safety requirements for tunnels in the trans-European road network, Official Journal of the European Union, L 167 (30.4.2004).
11. Garret, C. & Apostolakis, G. 1999. Context in the risk assessment of digital system. Risk Analysis 19(1): 23-32.
12. Hollnagel E. 2004. Barriers and accident prevention. England: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
13. Kaplan, S. & Garrick, B. 1981. On the quantitative definition of risk. Risk Analysis 1: 11-28.
14. Khoury, G.A. & Molag, M. 2005. Actualtime tunnel safety - a new approach, Tunnels and Tunelling International 37(7): 46-48.
15. Kirytopoulos, K. Rentizelas, A. Kazaras, K. & Tatsiopoulos, I. 2010. Quantitative operational risk analysis for dangerous goods transportation through cut and over road tunnels. In Ale, B. Papazoglu, I. & Zio, E. (eds.), Back to the future Proceedings of European Safety and Reliability Conference 2010 (ESREL 2010), Rhodes, Greece, 5-9 September 2010.
16. Larsson, P. Dekker, W.A. & Tingvall C. 2009. The need for a systems theory approach to road safety. Safety Science 4%: 1167-1174.
17. Leveson, N 2004. A new accident model for engineering safer systems. Safety Science 42(4):237-270.
18. Leveson, N 2011. Applying systems thinking to analyze and learn from events. Safety Science 49: 55-64.
19. Pate-Cornell & Murphy. 1996. Human and management factors in probabilisticrisk analysis: the SAM approach and observations from recent applications. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 53:115-126.
20. Perrow, C. 1984. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technology. New York: Basic Books.
21. Pet-Armacost, J. 1999. Monte Carlo Sensitivity Analysis of Unknown Parameters in Hazardous Materials Transportation Risk Assessment. Risk Analysis 19(6): 1173-1184.
22. PIARC. 2008. Risk analysis for road tunnels, World Road Association (PIARC), France.
23. Rasmussen, NC. 1975. Reactor Safety Study, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Document WASH-1400, NUREG 75/014.
24. Reason, J. 1990. Human Error. UK, Cambridge: University Press.
25. Saleh, J.H. Marais, K.B. Bakolas E. & Cowlagi, R.V. 2010. Highlights from the literature on accident causation and system safety: Review of major ideas, resent contribution and challenge. Reliability Engineering and System Safety 95:1105-1116.
26. Steen, R. & Niels, P. 2006. Optimal design of tunnels experience from and for practice. Safe and Reliable Tunnels. Innovative European Achievements; Proc. intern. symp, Lausanne 2006.
27. Tunnel Study Centre of France. 2003. Guide to Road tunnel safety documentation, booklet 4: Specific Hazard Investigation. France: CETU.