Accidents during marine transport of dangerous goods. Distribution of fatalities

Predicting the frequency of accidents in port areas by developing event trees from historical analysis

“…The latter involve all aspects of navigation and ships: loading and unloading of goods, oil jetties, shipyards, the presence of fishing fleets, marinas, dredging, the building of port infrastructures, etc. Several of these aspects have been analysed by Rømer, Brockhoff, Haastrup, andStyhr Petersen (1993), Rømer, Haastrup, andStyhr Petersen (1995), Rao and Raghavan (1996), Christou (1999), Thevik, Sørgard, and Fowler (2001), and Rigas and Sklavounos (2002).…”

A survey on hazardous materials accidents during road transport in China from 2000 to 2008

“…First, several historical surveys of accidents have been carried out, revealing their features, such as distribution, origin, consequences, severity, and frequency, among others [1]. More researchers compared these features with those occurring in industrial installations [2][3][4][5][6], marine transportation [7,8], and seaports [9], to name a few. The results can help identifying main risk sources and most probable accidents, so as to reduce accident probabilities and mitigate the potential consequences.…”

A Normal Distribution-Based Methodology for Analysis of Fatal Accidents in Land Hazardous Material Transportation

“…In a log-log system, F j is roughly linear to N i for land transport accidents ( ), which is different to the marine transport that has a hump in the f - N curve [ 15 ]. To better present this distribution in quantification and visualization, previous studies have obtained the best fitted curve with a slope of b [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ].…”

“…The f - N curve (social risk curve) is commonly used to describe the accident severity, by presenting the relationship between the accumulated probability and the number of deaths [ 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ]. Except for marine accidents of hazmat transportation, straight lines are obtained by plotting an f- N curve for road, rail and pipeline accidents [ 15 ]. The slope of the straight line, obtained by normal curve fitting, is used to evaluate the accident severity as a metric.…”