Abstract
Governance of the transport of hazardous materials requires complex decision making regarding regulation, routing, land-use, and resources for emergency response. Decision-makers need to balance the needs of various actors, such as industry and the public; they must take a multi-hazard approach, they must take into account the spatial dimension of the problem, and they must know the vulnerability of their territory. Therefore, they must have appropriate decision support tools that facilitate the required integration of information.
During the last few years the European Commission DG Joint Research Centre developed a number of such tools. Following the general phases of a typical risk management cycle, the presentation will illustrate their main characteristics and analyze their application in the safety and security domain.
This paper presents the main results gained during the definition and the implementation of such systems. It also comments on the main limits and gaps imposed by data unavailability or interoperability constraints.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Kelly, S. (1996) Data Warehousing: The Route to Mass Customization. John Wiley & Son, New York, US.
Di Mauro, C., Mazzeo Rinaldi, F., Nordvik, J.P. (2001) Integrated approach for effective policy planning and monitoring in industrialised areas. Proceeding of “54th Meeting of European Working Group - Multicriteria aid for decision”, Sanglier des Ardennes in Durbuy - October 4 and 5, 2001.
Atkinson, M., Di Mauro, C., Nordvik, J.P. (2005) Traceability and risk assessment for the transport of dangerous substances: results from an Italian case-study. Conference Proceeding of Systems Analysis for More Secure World - Application of System Analysis and RAMS to Security of Complex Systems, 29th ESReDA - European Safety, Reliability & Data Association, Ispra (I), October 25-26, 2005.
Atkinson, M., Di Mauro, C., Nordvik, J.P. (2006) Monitoring the Transport by Road of Hazardous Substances and Risk Reduction: Results from an Italian Case Study. In: Proc. ESREL 2006, pp. 2643-2650, Estoril (P), 18-22 September 2006, Safety and Reliability for Managing Risk - Guedes Soares & Zio (Eds), 2006 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 0-415-4 1620-5.
COUNTERACT Project, (2007) Deliverable 3A Targeted study FT10 on High Consequence Freight and establishing Security Zones in urban areas for Protection against Terrorist Attacks using Freight Transport to deliver Weapons. Final Report, December 2007.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Additional information
Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the authors and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of this publication.
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
About this paper
Cite this paper
Di Mauro, C., Nordvik, J.P. (2011). Decision Support System for Crisis Management Planning. In: Brugnoli, A. (eds) Dangerous Materials: Control, Risk Prevention and Crisis Management. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security, vol 00. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9732-3_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9732-3_4
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-90-481-9731-6
Online ISBN: 978-90-481-9732-3
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)