Critical Infrastructure: Reliability and Vulnerability

✍ Scribed by Alan T. Murray, Tony H. Grubesic (auth.), Professor Alan T. Murray, Professor Tony H. Grubesic (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 313
Series: Advances in Spatial Science
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This text brings together differing geographic perspectives in modeling and analysis in order to highlight infrastructure weaknesses or plan for their protection. International scholars, from a variety of disciplines--geography, regional science, planning, public policy, operations research, mathematics, computer science, engineering and transportation--offer varying perspectives on this subject. This text is an important contribution offering synthesis and new methodological approaches. It explores the potential consequences of critical infrastructure failure, stemming from both man-made and natural disasters. The approaches employed are wide-ranging, including geographic, economic and social perspectives on critical infrastructure issues.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Overview of Reliability and Vulnerability in Critical Infrastructure....Pages 1-8
Transport Network Vulnerability: a Method for Diagnosis of Critical Locations in Transport Infrastructure Systems....Pages 9-30
A Framework for Vulnerability Assessment of Electric Power Systems....Pages 31-55
Spatio-Temporal Models for Network Economic Loss Analysis Under Unscheduled Events: A Conceptual Design....Pages 57-79
Vulnerability: A Model-Based Case Study of the Road Network in Stockholm....Pages 81-106
Survivability of Commercial Backbones with Peering: A Case Study of Korean Networks....Pages 107-128
Railway Capacity and Train Delay Relationships....Pages 129-150
A Reliability-based User Equilibrium Model for Traffic Assignment....Pages 151-171
Reliability Analysis of Road Networks and Preplanning of Emergency Rescue Paths....Pages 173-196
Continuity in Critical Network Infrastructures: Accounting for Nodal Disruptions....Pages 197-220
Analysis of Facility Systems’ Reliability When Subject to Attack or a Natural Disaster....Pages 221-241
Bounding Network Interdiction Vulnerability Through Cutset Identification....Pages 243-256
Models for Reliable Supply Chain Network Design....Pages 257-289
Moving from Protection to Resiliency: A Path to Securing Critical Infrastructure....Pages 291-307
Back Matter....Pages 309-311

✦ Subjects

Regional Science; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Quantitative Geography; R & D/Technology Policy

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