Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2024, 26(4):F23-F35 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2024.040

Vulnerability Assessment of Transport Infrastructure Elements - Case Study in Rajec

Jozef Kubás ORCID...1, *, Boris Kollár ORCID...1, Jozef Ristvej ORCID...1, Katarina Petrlová2, Kateøina Bla¾ková3
1 Department of Crisis Management, Faculty of Security Engineering, University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
2 Mathematical Institute in Opava, Silesian University in Opava, Opava, Czech Republic
3 Fire Rescue Brigade of Moravian-Silesian Region, Ostrava - Zabreh, Czech Republic

The risk assessment of the area, with emphasis on the transport infrastructure, is dealt with in this paper. Disruption of some elements of transport infrastructure can lead to major negative impacts on the functioning of society, economies or states. The article therefore starts with presentation of the characteristics and importance of the road transport infrastructure with regard to its vulnerability. The core of the paper is the identification of vulnerable elements of road transport infrastructure and their parts and the subsequent vulnerability assessment of the selected element of the road transport infrastructure in the selected area. Therefore, the aim of the research, presented in this paper, was to propose a method for identifying and assessing the vulnerability of road transport infrastructure elements using the latest approaches in the field of vulnerability assessment. The proposed vulnerability assessment procedure is applied in the conditions of the city of Rajec in Slovakia.

Keywords: road transport infrastructure, risk assessment, vulnerability assessment, road bridges, crisis management
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Publication of this paper was supported by the Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic - VEGA No. 1/0628/22, “The Security Research in Municipalities with Emphasis on the Citizens’ Quality of Life”.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Received: May 7, 2024; Accepted: June 25, 2024; Prepublished online: July 18, 2024; Published: October 1, 2024  Show citation

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Kubás, J., Kollár, B., Ristvej, J., Petrlová, K., & Bla¾ková, K. (2024). Vulnerability Assessment of Transport Infrastructure Elements - Case Study in Rajec. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 26(4), F23-35. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2024.040
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