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Vulnerability Analyses of Interdependent Critical Infrastructures: Case study of the Swedish National Power transmission and Railway system

Svegrup, Linn LU and Johansson, Jonas LU (2015) European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL2015) p.4499-4507
Abstract
Critical infrastructures provide services that are essential for the functioning of our society and extensive disruptions in these can have widespread effects. These effects are not only limited to the directly affected infrastructure but also indirectly through interdependencies to other infrastructures. By only account-ing for the direct consequences when analysing critical infrastructures, the total consequences can potentially be severely underestimated. Identifying vulnerabilities in these system-of-systems is hence highly critical for holistic risk management. This paper uses a modelling approach for interdependent technical infrastructures and presents a case study using real-life data and models of the Swedish national power... (More)
Critical infrastructures provide services that are essential for the functioning of our society and extensive disruptions in these can have widespread effects. These effects are not only limited to the directly affected infrastructure but also indirectly through interdependencies to other infrastructures. By only account-ing for the direct consequences when analysing critical infrastructures, the total consequences can potentially be severely underestimated. Identifying vulnerabilities in these system-of-systems is hence highly critical for holistic risk management. This paper uses a modelling approach for interdependent technical infrastructures and presents a case study using real-life data and models of the Swedish national power transmission system and Swedish national railway system, taking into account both functional and geographical interdependencies. It is concluded that it is of importance to include effects of interdependencies when analysing critical infra-structure vulnerability and that these types of analyses give valuable insights for proactive management and aid our understanding of interdependent critical infrastructures. (Less)
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Railway, Power System, Interdependencies, Sweden, Critical Infrastructure
host publication
Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems - Proceedings of the 25th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2015
pages
4499 - 4507
publisher
ESREL2015
conference name
European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL2015)
conference dates
2015-09-07 - 2015-09-10
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  • scopus:84959019691
ISBN
978-113802879-1
language
English
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  author       = {{Svegrup, Linn and Johansson, Jonas}},
  booktitle    = {{Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems - Proceedings of the 25th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2015}},
  isbn         = {{978-113802879-1}},
  keywords     = {{Railway; Power System; Interdependencies; Sweden; Critical Infrastructure}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{4499--4507}},
  publisher    = {{ESREL2015}},
  title        = {{Vulnerability Analyses of Interdependent Critical Infrastructures: Case study of the Swedish National Power transmission and Railway system}},
  year         = {{2015}},
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