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Vulnerability analysis of interdependent critical infrastructures : case study of the Swedish railway system

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Summary, in English

Critical infrastructures provide essential services which enable our society to function. Disruptions in infrastructures can have widespread effects, not only for the originating infrastructure but also, through mutual dependencies, for other infrastructures. Identifying vulnerabilities inherent in these system-of-systems is thus highly critical for the proactive management and avoidance of future crises. A modelling approach for interdependent technical infrastructures is proposed and three perspectives for the analysis of vulnerabilities are introduced, addressing the complexities associated with comprehensively analysing technical interdependent infrastructures. An empirical analysis of the railway system in southern Sweden is conducted, a system consisting of seven interdependent supporting systems. It is concluded that the proposed modelling approach and the three perspectives of vulnerability analysis give valuable insights for the proactive risk management of technical infrastructures.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

289-316

Publication/Series

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

Volume

7

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Inderscience Publishers

Topic

  • Other Civil Engineering
  • Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
  • Building Technologies
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • critical infrastructures
  • complex systems
  • interdependencies
  • risk assessment
  • vulnerability analysis
  • railways
  • Sweden
  • modelling
  • technical infrastructures
  • risk management.

Status

Published

Project

  • FRIVA

Research group

  • LUCRAM (Lund University Center for Risk Analysis and Management

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1475-3219