Design solutions to improve resilience of metro vehicle to blast events

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dc.contributor.authorEl Koursi, El Miloudi
dc.contributor.authorBruyelle, Jean Luc
dc.contributor.authorSeddon, Richard
dc.contributor.authorO'Neill, Conor
dc.contributor.institutionPOLIMEROS
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-24T12:00:50Z
dc.date.available2024-07-24T12:00:50Z
dc.date.issued2018-12
dc.descriptionPublisher Copyright: © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
dc.description.abstractConsiderable effort is being devoted by researchers and stakeholders in order to improve the safety of metro systems with regard to terrorist attacks. The issue has been addressed by many researchers, taking into account the bow-tie model of safety management, in which the node is the terrorist attack, with on one side the causes of the attack (e.g. political issues, technical weaknesses) and on the other side the consequences (e.g. human, organisational, economical). The common goal is to implement a line of defence to isolate these causes and consequences, in order to prevent the attack from occurring and, should it happen, to mitigate its consequences as much as possible. This work takes into account the identified common attack methodologies and the behaviour of the surviving passengers in order to improve the situation management, assist the evacuation of and rescue to survivors. Moreover, technological improvements to the structure and critical systems of the vehicle have been devised and tested in real situation. This paper focuses particularly on the behaviour of people in blast situation, and presents the conclusions of the project on these effects and the related improvements of the vehicles design in order to improve resilience and survivability to blast.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors would like to thank the European Commission for supporting the funding for the “SecureMetro – Inherently secure blast resistant and fire safe metro vehicles” project (Grant Agreement No. 234148 ), and also wish to thank all the partners of the SecureMetro project.
dc.description.statusPeer reviewed
dc.format.extent12
dc.identifier.citationEl Koursi , E M , Bruyelle , J L , Seddon , R & O'Neill , C 2018 , ' Design solutions to improve resilience of metro vehicle to blast events ' , Transportation Research, Part A: Policy and Practice , vol. 118 , pp. 280-291 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.09.015
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.tra.2018.09.015
dc.identifier.issn0965-8564
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11556/3081
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85053469660&partnerID=8YFLogxK
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofTransportation Research, Part A: Policy and Practice
dc.relation.projectIDEuropean Commission, EC, 234148
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subject.keywordsExplosions
dc.subject.keywordsHuman factors
dc.subject.keywordsRailway safety
dc.subject.keywordsResilience
dc.subject.keywordsSecurity
dc.subject.keywordsTerrorism
dc.subject.keywordsCivil and Structural Engineering
dc.subject.keywordsBusiness, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
dc.subject.keywordsTransportation
dc.subject.keywordsAerospace Engineering
dc.subject.keywordsManagement Science and Operations Research
dc.subject.keywordsSDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
dc.titleDesign solutions to improve resilience of metro vehicle to blast eventsen
dc.typejournal article
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