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SYSTEM-SAFETY TECHNIQUES USEFUL FOR TRANSPORTATION SAFETY

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00173111

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Abstract:

This paper reviews existing system-safety techniques in terms of their applicability to the current transportation structure, status, and available data; their ease of comprehension; and their usefulness in reducing accidents and fatalities. The two techniques of failure mode effects and criticality analysis and fault-free analysis are reviewed, explained, and modified for use in transportation safety studies. When applied at each level or activity cycle of a transportation system, these two techniques provide safety specialists with tools that lead to concern for safety at every stage of a project from conception through facility operation. The cohesive approach that is suggested by the concept of system safety is well-suited to the needs of transportation safety. As a methodology, system safety must be adopted and its technical and managerial analyses applied at the modal facility level. /Author/

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Publication of this paper sponsored by Group 3 Council. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

Monograph Accession #:

01411475

Authors:

Horodniceanu, Michael
Cantilli, Edmund J
Shooman, Martin L
Pignataro, Louis J

Pagination:

p. 77-84

Publication Date:

1977

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 629
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309026571

Features:

Figures (5) ; References (9)

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Subject Areas:

Safety and Human Factors; Transportation (General)

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

May 18 1978 12:00AM

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