Transactions on Transport Sciences 2010, 3(4):157-168 | DOI: 10.2478/v10158-010-0022-0

Critical Infrastructure Safety Management

D. Procházková*
Institute of Security Technologies and Engineering, Faculty of Transport Sciences, Czech Technical University, Prague

Critical infrastructure is a set of mutually interconnected networks, i.e., the systems of various sectors of a human system. An interconnection of systems means their mutual dependence. Therefore, in connection with safe critical infrastructure and with sustainable development potential, it is necessary to solve several problems, namely the safety of partial infrastructures and the safety of a set of mutually dependent infrastructures. With regard to present knowledge we know that the optimum safety of the set of infrastructures is not the set of optimum safeties of partial infrastructures, and, therefore, we must search for a solution in a different way. The work shows a possible approach for solution acquisition. The paper searches for the principles for safety management of critical infrastructure by logic analysis and the synthesis of present findings and experiences.

Keywords: Critical infrastructure, interdependences, safety, dependability, vulnerability.

Published: December 1, 2010  Show citation

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Procházková, D. (2010). Critical Infrastructure Safety Management. Transactions on Transport Sciences, 3(4), 157-168. doi: 10.2478/v10158-010-0022-0
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