by Vance Tan | Feb 25, 2016 | Infrastructure systems
A new book published by Cambridge University Press. Synopsis The future of national infrastructure: A system-of-systems approach provides practitioners, decision-makers, and academics with the concepts, models and tools needed to identify and test robust, sustainable,...
by Vance Tan | Jan 17, 2016 | Network risk analysis
Abstract Abstract Recent rapid urbanisation means that China has invested in an enormous amount of infrastructure, much of which is vulnerable to natural hazards. This paper investigates from a spatial perspective how the Chinese infrastructure system is exposed to...
by Vance Tan | Jan 12, 2016 | Water supply
Abstract The assessment of collective risk for flood risk management requires a better understanding of the space-time characteristics of flood magnitude and occurrence. In particular, classic formulation of collective risk implies hypotheses concerning the...
by Vance Tan | Jan 4, 2016 | Network risk analysis
Abstract Critical infrastructures vulnerability assessment involves understanding various socio-technological aspects of modern day infrastructures. While vulnerabilities exist at different scales, failures of large-scale installations in infrastructures are...
by Vance Tan | Nov 4, 2015 | Infrastructure systems, Prizes & Awards
Scott Thacker received the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Engineering and Infrastructure Speciality Group Student Merit Award for this submission. Abstract Infrastructure network systems support society and the economy by facilitating the distribution of essential...