SYSTEM-SAFETY TECHNIQUES USEFUL FOR TRANSPORTATION SAFETY

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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• Authors:
  • Horodniceanu, Michael
  • Cantilli, Edmund J
  • Shooman, Martin L
  • Pignataro, Louis J
• Publication Date: 1977

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 77-84
• Monograph Title: Pedestrian Controls, Bicycle Facilities, Driver Research, and System Safety
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 629
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Failure; Fatalities; Faults; Nuclear reactors; Prevention; Safety; Traffic safety; Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation systems
• Old TRIS Terms: Criticality
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00173111
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309026571
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: May 18 1978 12:00AM