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Risk and Interdependencies in Critical Infrastructures pp 67–94Cite as

Vulnerability Analyses of Interdependent Technical Infrastructures

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In this chapter, the modelling framework presented in Chap. 5 will be used to perform vulnerability analyses from three perspectives: global vulnerability, critical components, and geographical vulnerability. Two case studies of two real-world interdependent infrastructure systems are performed; one focusing on an electric distribution system coupled with a water distribution system, and one focusing on a railway system which is composed of seven interdependent systems.

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    Breadth first searches can be contrasted against depth first searches. Breadth first searches start in a node and find adjacent (neighbouring) nodes, the algorithm then continues to search in all these adjacent nodes before moving on and searching these nodes’ neighbours. Contrasted against a depth first search where a single path from the start node to neighbouring nodes is explored, that is, only one neighbour at a time is considered and the search continued for.

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    The Swedish Railway Administration was in 2010 replaced with the new Swedish Transport Administration.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Automation, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Jonas Johansson

  2. Lund University Centre for Risk Assessment and Management (LUCRAM), Lund, Sweden

    Jonas Johansson & Henrik Hassel

  3. Department of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Henrik Hassel

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  1. , Safety Research, SINTEF, S.P. Andersens v 5, Trondheim, 7465, Norway

    Per Hokstad

  2. Technology, Department of Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and, Otto Nielsensv. 10, Trondheim, 7491, Norway

    Ingrid B. Utne

  3. , Production and Quality Engineering, NTNU Valgrinda, Trondheim, 7491, Norway

    Jørn Vatn

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Johansson, J., Hassel, H. (2012). Vulnerability Analyses of Interdependent Technical Infrastructures. In: Hokstad, P., Utne, I., Vatn, J. (eds) Risk and Interdependencies in Critical Infrastructures. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4661-2_6

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