2008/08/03 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Accessibility Index - a measure of Transport Network Vulnerability?

Taylor, M., Sekhar, S., & D'Este, G. (2006). Application of Accessibility Based Methods for Vulnerability Analysis of Strategic Road Networks Networks and Spatial Economics, 6 (3-4), 267-291

The starting point for this paper is the question of how to define and find critical locations in a transport network. A network node is vulnerable if loss or degradation of a small number of links diminishes the accessibility of the node. A network link is critical if loss or degradation of the links diminishes the accessibility of the network or of particular nodes [ ... ]

2006/05/16 my PUBLIC PRESENCE

Transport Network Vulnerability - which metrics should we use?

transport-network-vulnerability

This paper presents a review of road network vulnerability, seeking to synthesize different terminologies and metrics, among which: reliability, vulnerability, resilience, flexibility, robustness, and adaptive capacity. [ ... ]