Recent high-profile disasters, like the Ladbrook Grove rail accidents in London, have highlighted the susceptibility of transport networks to severe dislocation from time to time. This is more than just an inconvenience, as the emergency services depend on the residual transport network to ferry in help and ferry out the wounded. Spurred on by the catastophic effects on the transport network of the Kobe earthquake, 17 January 1995, Yasunori Iida of Kyoto University, Japan, organized a small group of international experts to ...
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Recent high-profile disasters, like the Ladbrook Grove rail accidents in London, have highlighted the susceptibility of transport networks to severe dislocation from time to time. This is more than just an inconvenience, as the emergency services depend on the residual transport network to ferry in help and ferry out the wounded. Spurred on by the catastophic effects on the transport network of the Kobe earthquake, 17 January 1995, Yasunori Iida of Kyoto University, Japan, organized a small group of international experts to work on the topic of network reliability. The objective of the work is to provide tools necessary for designing more reliable transport networks. As part of the work, an international seminar was convened in July 1999. This book contains the edited contributions to the seminar.
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