Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Elements in Transport

Dvořák, Zdeněk; Sventeková, Eva; Řehák, David; Čekerevac, Zoran

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.04.413

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“… method for identifying and ranking critical components and sets of components in technical infrastructures (Jönsson et al, 2008)  infrastructure interdependencies simulator (i2Sim) (Alsubaie et al, 2015)  framework for assessing the vulnerability of rail freight networks by introducing two bi-level models (Bababeik et al, 2017)  procedure for identifying potential CI elements in the railway sub-sector (Leitner et al, 2017)  methodology for identifying critical infrastructure objects in transport (Dvorak et al, 2017). The above tools and methods were compared using a set of criteria reflecting defined evaluation conditions, i.e., by taking into account the key factors determining and influencing the criticality assessment of all elements of the railway infrastructure.…”

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“…General approaches are aimed either at systemic determination of infrastructure criticality (e.g., Katina and Hester, 2013) or at assessing the criticality of elements in different types of infrastructures by using a variety of factors. These factors include the possible impact of an element's failure on the assessed system (e.g., Jönsson et al, 2008;Luiijf et al, 2003), the dependence of the monitored element (e.g., Fekete, 2018;Rinaldi et al, 2001), the significance of the element (e.g., Alsubaie et al, 2015;Zhang et al, 2015), the vulnerability of the element (e.g., Pant et al, 2016;Theoharidou et al, 2009) and risks in relation to the element of interest (e.g., Dvorak et al, 2017;Pant et al, 2015;Sousek and Dvorak, 2013). Another important factor is assessing the criticality of elements from the perspective of the attacker, whose aim is to disconnect a network at a number of critical nodes and disrupt the connection of individual key components to other elements (Faramondi et al, 2016).…”

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Integral approach to assessing the criticality of railway infrastructure elements

Řehák¹,

Slivkova²,

Pittner³

et al. 2020

IJCIS

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In the last ten years, considerable attention has been paid to analysing and assessing the criticality of railway infrastructure elements. Publications on the subject mostly assess elements only from a certain point of view, such as purpose, reliability or risk. This leads to only a partial assessment of criticality without continuous correlation, which may result some critical elements of the system being omitted. The article introduces the railway infrastructure criticality assessment tool (RICA tool), which was created to evaluate the criticality of railway infrastructure elements in all aspects. The integral approach of the tool lies in comprehensively assessing the technical and process factors of rail transport. The criticality of railway infrastructure elements is therefore assessed not only in terms of the relevance and resilience of elements but also their interdependence, substitutability, risk and impact.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Integral approach to assessing the criticality of railway infrastructure elements

Řehák¹,

Slivkova²,

Pittner³

et al. 2020

IJCIS

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“…The assessed critical infrastructure sector is the road transport sector. The input data for this infrastructure consists of a type of road, a unique identifier (road section number), traffic intensity and interest information [96]. Based on the consensus of stakeholders, the assessment was limited to roads that allow interconnection of the region (i.e., motorways, 1st class roads, 2nd class roads, 3rd class roads)-local roads were not assessed.…”

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Designating Regional Elements System in a Critical Infrastructure System in the Context of the Czech Republic

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Jánošíková

2020

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Critical infrastructure is a complex system whose disruption or failure results in significant impacts on state interests, i.e., territorial security, economy, and the basic needs of the population. The current European Critical Infrastructure Protection Model does not allow the direct identification of critical elements at the regional level. Based on this, the paper brings a proposal for a unified system of critical infrastructure design based on a bottom-up approach. It is a progressive approach, utilizing contemporary trends in the application of science-based knowledge to critical infrastructure. A holistic view of this issue allows us to take into account the needs and preferences of the population, the preferences of the stakeholders and the local conditions of the region under consideration. The novelty of this approach is seen, in particular, in the identification of regional critical infrastructure elements through an integral assessment of these elements’ failure impact, not only on the dependent subsectors, but also on the population (population equivalent) in the assessed region. The final part of the paper presents a case study demonstrating the practical application of the proposed system to the road infrastructure in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic.

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“…For this reason, in recent years, particular attention has been paid to research into methods for assessing and strengthening critical infrastructure resilience, as resilience goes beyond traditional risk management (Petersen et al 2020). This fact is evidenced, in particular, by articles dealing with resilience in the context of entire cities or urban areas (Chen et al 2020;Li et al 2020;Lu et al 2020;Rehak et al 2019) of their transport systems (Argyroudis et al 2020;Machado-León and Goodchild 2017;Dvorak et al 2017) or individual urban networks (Alizadeh and Sharifi 2020;Liu and Song 2020;Quitana et al 2020;Shandiz et al 2020). These approaches are realistically applicable and contribute to strengthening the resilience of critical infrastructure, but do not allow for the early indication of resilience disruption.…”

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Managerial Decision Making in Indicating a Disruption of Critical Infrastructure Element Resilience

Šplíchalová

Patrman

Kotalova

et al. 2020

Administrative Sciences

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Managerial decision making is an integral process used in public and private organizations. Critical infrastructure entities are a strategically significant group dependent on the quality of decision-making processes. They aim to provide services necessary to ensure state security and to satisfy basic human needs. The quality of decision making is an important factor in the management of these entities. The quality level is determined by many factors, the key of which is risk management. For this reason, it is necessary for the operators to minimize risks affecting the elements of the critical infrastructure through which these services are provided. Risk management is commonly used for this purpose, making it possible to assess and manage these risks. However, there is a specific group of threats that affects the resilience of these elements. The indication of these threats is not possible through common risk management. Therefore, it is necessary to develop specific scenarios of negative impacts and procedures for assessing their impact on the resilience of elements of the critical infrastructure. To this end, this conceptual article introduces an entirely new managerial decision-making process for indicating the resilience of critical infrastructure elements.

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Assessment of Critical Infrastructure Elements in Transport

Cited by 40 publications

References 4 publications

Integral approach to assessing the criticality of railway infrastructure elements

Integral approach to assessing the criticality of railway infrastructure elements

Designating Regional Elements System in a Critical Infrastructure System in the Context of the Czech Republic

Managerial Decision Making in Indicating a Disruption of Critical Infrastructure Element Resilience

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