Urban planning and rail transport risks: Coping with deadlocks in Dutch urban development projects

Robustness assessment of urban rail transit based on complex network theory: A case study of the Beijing Subway

“…The increasing availability of data acquisition on large systems and the rapid development of artificial intelligence techniques aided by computer technology (Vernez and Vuille, 2009;Zhao et al, 2012;Zhong et al, 2010) have led to great advances in our understanding of the topological complexity of critical infrastructures (Ding et al, 2014;Glickman and Erkut, 2007;van der Vlies and van der Heijden, 2013;Zhang et al, 2014). In spite of the significance, the study of these critical infrastructures is an essentially complicated issue since they are continuously growing in complexity and heterogeneity, which makes a single modeling unreliable in this case.…”

HazMat transportation safety assessment: Analysis of a “Viareggio-like” incident in the Netherlands

“…During transportation, accidents may occur and propagate among tankers leading to severe fires, explosion or toxic dispersions (Casal, 2018). This may increase the level of individual and societal risk associated to those activities, since the transport network often crosses densely populated areas (Jardine et al, 2003;Ryland, 1999;van der Vlies and van der Heijden, 2013). Due to the relevant safety issues posed by HazMat transportation, the scientific community devoted several efforts to develop quantitative tools for risk assessment of this specific activity.…”