Embedding the human factor in road tunnel risk analysis

The paper is focusing on road tunnel safety and builds upon the Directive 2004/54/EC launched by the European Commission; the latter sets basic requirements and suggests the implementation of risk assessment in several tunnel cases apart from technical measures imposed on the basis of tunnel structural and operational characteristics. Since the EU Directive does not indicate the method for performing risk assessment, a wide range of methods have been proposed, most of them based on quantitative risk assessment (QRA). Although the majority of current road tunnel QRAs assess physical aspects of the tunnel system and consider several hazards concerning the transportation of dangerous goods through a tunnel, they do not take into account, sufficiently, several organizational and human-related factors that can greatly affect the overall safety level of these critical infrastructures. To cope with this limitation this paper proposes a fuzzy logic system based on CREAM method for human reliability analysis (Hollnagel, 1998) in order to provide more sophisticated estimations of the tunnel operator's performance in safety critical situations. It is deduced that a human reliability analysis component to analyze operator performance, like the fuzzy system proposed here, is important for risk analysts. Consideration of organizational and human factors will enhance risk analysts’ studies and highlight the uncertainty related to human performance variability.     

公路隧道火灾风险评价模型及应用

公路隧道火灾风险评价研究是预防和控制公路隧道火灾事故的重要手段。通过火灾案例统计分析,运用安全系统工程方法分析公路隧道火灾事故原因,从设备因素、人员因素、环境因素以及管理因素四个方面构建公路隧道火灾风险评价指标体系。建立了基于模糊层次评价法公路隧道火灾风险评价数学模型;最后对某公路隧道进行应用实例研究,确定了公路隧道的火灾风险等级并提出了相应的改进措施。结果表明公路隧道火灾风险评价指标体系以及评价方法能合理反映公路隧道的火灾风险。     

公路隧道火灾事故调研与对策分析

通过调研国内外近60年来,有代表性的33起公路隧道火灾事故,对公路隧道火灾事故起因、特点及危害进行了详细分析,结合国外公路隧道火灾安全措施以及防火安全评估经验,提出几点降低公路隧道火灾事故风险,减少事故危害的对策与建议。以期为公路隧道规划、设计以及建设运营等工作提供有益的参考。     

基于主成分分析的公路隧道消防安全系统评价研究

基于系统安全分析方法并结合数理统计理论,建立了隧道消防安全系统原理图及评估指标体系,运用多元统计理论中的主成分分析法,构造了一种基于统计基础上的综合评估函数,对近年来的典型火灾隧道的防火安全系统进行了合理评估,针对评估结果构造了分级标准,提出了公路隧道消防安全等级评估的新思路.以雪峰山隧道的实例计算表明,该评估模型具有简便性、可操作性和准确性,能全面地反映隧道消防安全系统状况,以便及时发现隐患,减少火灾的潜在危险.     

基于AHP-证据理论的综合管廊火灾安全评价

为了进行综合管廊火灾安全评价,提出了基于AHP-证据理论的评价模型。采用AHP法得出综合管廊火灾安全评价体系中各因素的权重,再引入D-S证据理论提高评价的可信度。从"人、机、环、管"四大方面归纳出影响综合管廊火灾安全的潜在影响因素并分级,建立综合管廊火灾安全评价指标体系;通过AHP法得出体系中各因素的权重,再通过信任函数和似然函数的计算得到量化评价结果;最后将多个评价结果进行融合以提高最终评价结果的可信度,并且评判火灾安全等级。对某综合管廊的实例分析表明,当不同专家给出的评价结果有差异时,依据证据理论将不同的证据进行融合,能有效提高综合管廊火灾安全评价的可信度,最终得到可靠的评价结果。通过分析得出设备因素对综合管廊火灾安全评价体系影响最大。     

公路隧道施工安全风险评估方法优化研究

我国在建公路隧道工程数量增长迅速,施工安全事故时有发生,因此通过风险评估实现施工过程的风险控制就显得非常重要。在此背景下,交通运输部出台了《公路桥梁和隧道工程施工安全风险评估指南（试行）》,而在实际应用过程中,该评估指南无法完全适应多变的工程实际。针对该问题,在对隧道施工安全风险评估的各类评估方法及其适用性进行详细研究的基础上,将该评估指南与国内外其他相关成果和做法进行分析比对,指出该评估指南存在的不足之处,进一步提出相关优化与修订建议;最后,以湖南某高速公路隧道洞口坍塌事故为例,利用提出的施工前专项风险评估方法,综合运用数值模拟计算与事故后果当量估计,计算相应的风险等级,所得到的结果与实际情况更为接近,进一步说明本文所提优化方法的合理性和可操作性。     

组织管理失误对操作人员行为安全影响分析

为使操作人员行为更安全,对组织管理失误进行分析,归纳为管理控制失误、组 织规程失误、组织安全管理失误、安全监督失误、教育培训不足5个方面,运用结构方 程模型（SEM）分析对操作人员行为安全的影响,使用AMOS软件对模型求解。运用直觉 三角模糊数对模型中指标进行评价并采用TOPSIS法对不安全行为进行排序。研究表明: 管理控制和组织规程对建立安全监督体系有正向作用;管理控制和组织规程对组织安全 管理实施有正向作用;管理控制和组织规程对有教育培训正向作用;建立安全监督体系 、组织安全管理实施和教育培训对操作人员安全行为有正向作用。进行风险排序有利于 企业对关键工种提出改进措施,提高企业效益。     

基于ISM法的公路隧道火灾事故致因研究

以降低公路隧道火灾风险为目的,结合国内外公路隧道火灾特点及危害,分析研究了公路隧道火灾事故的致因。采用解释结构模型(ISM)分析各原因之间的层次关系,建立了4级递阶结构关系。结果显示:第一层致因为隧道中运行车辆的起火和隧道自身结构火灾起火;第二层为隧道中司乘人员引起的不同车辆火灾和隧道运营管理存在危险性;第三层为隧道中车辆的危险性预防和对隧道的安全检查;最深层原因集中于管理因素,安全教育、安全意识的形成和对安全监管的投入力度上,隧道运营管理者的行为措施。交通管理部门可以通过对公路隧道火灾起火原因分析出发,找出增强隧道安全性的有效途径。     

海底隧道交通事故风险耦合演化机理研究

为明晰海底隧道交通系统内部风险因素之间的耦合关联和事故演化机理,从驾驶人、道路、车辆、环境和管理5方面阐释海底隧道风险因素内涵,定性分析风险因素之间的耦合作用,建立海底隧道交通事故风险演化立体网络模型,提出海底隧道风险因素量化评价标准;并构建海底隧道交通事故风险耦合尖点突变模型,深入分析海底隧道交通系统风险状态演化的主...     

山岭地区铁路隧道施工安全风险评估及管理研究——以贵广铁路客运专线金宝顶隧道为例

针对山岭地区隧道工程规模越来越大,地质条件日益复杂、技术要求越来越高、施工难度也越来越大等特点,以新建贵阳至广州铁路客运专线金宝顶隧道为工程背景,采用“层次分析法”对隧道施工安全进行风险评估.通过建立风险源的层次树状图,有针对性采取隧道施工安全风险管理控制技术,为降低事故发生的可能性和控制风险事故后果损失提供了技术指导.结合金宝顶隧道风险管理的实例,对基于层次分析法的施工安全风险评估的实际运用进行总结,提出了主要的危险源和应该采取的风险控制措施,以其为同类工程提供有益借鉴.     

Conceptual compression discussion on a multi-linear (FTA) and systematic (FRAM) method in an offshore operation’s accident modeling

Risk assessment can be classified into two broad categories: traditional and modern. This paper is aimed at contrasting the functional resonance analysis method (FRAM) as a modern approach with the fault tree analysis (FTA) as a traditional method, regarding assessing the risks of a complex system. Applied methodology by which the risk assessment is carried out, is presented in each approach. Also, FRAM network is executed with regard to nonlinear interaction of human and organizational levels to assess the safety of technological systems. The methodology is implemented for lifting structures deep offshore. The main finding of this paper is that the combined application of FTA and FRAM during risk assessment, could provide complementary perspectives and may contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of an incident. Finally, it is shown that coupling a FRAM network with a suitable quantitative method will result in a plausible outcome for a predefined accident scenario.     

Incorporating organizational factors into probabilistic risk assessment of complex socio-technical systems: Principles and theoretical foundations

The current generation of Probabilistic Risk Analysis (PRA), particularly those for technical systems, does not include an explicit representation of the possible impacts of organization and management on the safety performance of equipment and personnel. There are a number of technical challenges in developing a predictive model of organizational safety performance. There is a need for a widely accepted and theoretically sound set of principles on which models of organizational influences could be developed and validated. As a result of a multidisciplinary effort, this paper explores the feasibility of developing such principles and proposes a set of principles for organizational safety risk analysis. Then, as a realization of the proposed modeling principles, a safety risk framework, named Socio-Technical Risk Analysis (SoTeRiA), is developed. SoTeRiA formally integrates the technical system risk models with the social (safety culture and safety climate) and structural (safety practices) aspects of safety prediction models, and provides a theoretical basis for the integration. A systematic view of safety culture and safety climate leaves an important gap in modeling complex system safety risk, and SoTeRiA, describing the relationship between these two concepts, bridges this gap. The framework explicitly recognizes the relationship among constructs at multiple levels of analysis, and extends the PRA framework to include the effects of organizational factors in a more comprehensive and defensible way.     

高速公路建设工程安全预评价研究及工程应用

本文针对我国如火如荼的高速公路建设工程中日益突显的安全问题，在事故统计分析的基础上，结合某山区高速公路建设工程的实际情况，提出了高速公路工程安全评价工作的新思路。针对公路工程的特点，分别从总体方案、施工现场、路基工程、隧道工程、隧道火灾、桥梁工程、公路系统等7个方面的定性、定量评价进行分析，可以作为今后高速公路安全评价项目的参考案例，对促进高速公路建设工程安全水平的提升有积极的影响意义。     

基于未确知测度理论的公路隧道水害危险性评价

基于未确知测度理论,建立公路隧道水害危险性评价模型。从内因和外因的视角分析,同时将内因分为水害来源、通道、水量三个部分,采取隧道区降水量、地表水文情况、隧道区渗透系数、构造断裂带类型、围岩分级、岩土分类、单位涌水量、隧道区平均气温、隧道区植被覆盖率、隧道区地下水腐蚀性(酸性)、防排水措施情况、隧道施工分级、安全管理情况等共13项指标作为为确知测度模型的判别指标;根据相应的实测数据构建未确知测度函数,同时利用信息熵理论获得各判别指标的权重,依据置信度识别准则进行等级判定,最后得出公路隧道水害危险性评价结果。运用该方法对国内6条典型公路隧道的水害危险性进行评价,评价结果与公路隧道实际情况相吻合。因此,这种新方法能够应用到公路隧道水害的危险性评价中,并能解决公路隧道危险性评价的诸多因素不确定性问题,对其进行合理有效的评价。     

道路行车安全性虚拟评价方法研究

针对在道路建成之前很难对设计道路进行有效的安全性评价的问题,在介绍运行车速评价法、速度分布评价法、线形指数评价法和驾驶人工作负荷评价法等国外道路安全评价方法的基础上,提出包括运行车速与设计车速差、相邻路段运行车速差、速度降低因子、横向力系数变化因子以及路段间的加速度值等5个评价因子在内的道路安全评价模型,并确定了相应指标的评价标准.该方法的评价过程包括自行模式和互动模式.自行模式是在驾驶员模糊车速控制模型的基础上预测路段的运行车速,从而进行线形的安全评价;交互模式主要是在虚拟仿真的基础上对道路、隧道、桥梁的交通工程设施、照明等系统进行安全性评价.通过该评价方法可以在道路的设计阶段发现存在的行车安全性问题,通过修改设计或进行安全改善,提高道路的运营安全性.     

Blast phenomena in urban tunnel systems

Traffic infrastructure in urbanised areas is increasingly projected in tunnels underground or covered over, these days. A consequence is that in case of an incident with hazardous materials the safety level for fellow road users in tunnels is considerably less than it is in surface infrastructure. To reduce the consequences of incidents for fellow tunnel users, urban tunnels are sometimes interrupted by open spaces of limited length. Open spaces allow, for instance, the release of smoke in case of a fire. In this way, possible lethal effects are limited to the tunnel section in which the incident occurred. To what extent an open space may also be effective in the mitigation of blast effects from an explosion in a tunnel system is subject of this paper.

To this end, the blast effects originating from the rupture of a 50 m³ LPG pressure vessel in an urban tunnel system have been computed by numerical simulation. The results show that an open space in a tunnel system has a significant mitigating effect on the blast effects indeed. However, as a consequence of the ingress of a high-velocity jet flow that follows on a primary blast wave, a second blast wave develops in the tunnel section following on an open space. The strength of this second blast wave is not very dependent on the length of the open space. It shows that an open space in a tunnel system may not always limit the lethal effects of explosion incidents in tunnels to the tube in which the incident occurred. The second blast wave in the tunnel section following on an open space may have lethal consequences for fellow tunnel users by car window failure.     

民航机务维修系统安全风险监测

从人的因素、飞机的因素、环境因素和管理因素4方面分析了民航机务维修系统安全风险影响因素,结合专家调查意见建立了机务维修系统安全风险监测指标体系,并给出各个指标的含义及其衡量方法。根据机务维修系统安全风险指标及其数据特点,建立了行业机务维修系统安全风险模糊综合评价模型,并进行实例分析。结果表明,采用笔者建立的指标体系和风险模型可以方便地进行机务维修系统的安全风险评价和预警,从而找出主要的安全风险影响因素,为采取安全风险管理措施提供依据。     

基于脆弱性分析的隧道施工安全管理问题研究

隧道施工安全管理不仅要关注常规体系下的技术细节,更要注重安全管理系统本身脆弱性所带来的突变。从脆弱性的角度进行隧道施工安全管理系统自身薄弱环节的辨识和分析。首先基于系统脆弱性的内涵分析了隧道施工安全管理系统的组成要素及内外部扰动源,形成了隧道施工安全管理脆弱性的分析模式。随后,基于ISM方法剖析脆弱性因素间的耦合关系,将其划分为11个层级,从而构建了脆弱性评价的层级体系。最后,以山西吕梁某隧道施工项目为例,分析安全管理资料和两起安全事故,提出了该项目安全管理系统的脆弱性因素及有针对性的改进措施。ISM及案例分析结果表明,ISM方法有效实现了脆弱性因素的层级划分,脆弱性指标直接反映安全管理系统的薄弱点。通过脆弱性分析能够发掘隧道施工安全管理系统的薄弱环节,并为系统的动态持续优化提供决策依据。     

Investigating the uniqueness of crash injury severity in freeway tunnels: A comparative study in Guizhou,China

Introduction: With the rapid development of transportation infrastructures in precipitous areas, the mileage of freeway tunnels in China has been mounting during the past decade. Provided the semi-constrained space and the monotonous driving environment of freeway tunnels, safety concerns still remain. This study aims to investigate the uniqueness of the relationships between crash severity in freeway tunnels and various contributory factors. Method: The information of 10,081 crashes in the entire freeway network of Guizhou Province, China in 2018 is adopted, from which a subset of 591 crashes in tunnels is extracted. To address spatial variations across various road segments, a two-level binary logistic approach is applied to model crash severity in freeway tunnels. A similar model is also established for crash severity on general freeways as a benchmark. Results: The uniqueness of crash severity in tunnels mainly includes three aspects: (a) the road-segment-level effects are quantifiable with the environmental factors for crash severity in tunnels, but only exist in the random effects for general freeways; (b) tunnel has a significantly higher propensity to cause severe injury in a crash than other locations of a freeway; and (c) different influential factors and levels of contributions are found to crash severity in tunnels compared with on general freeways. Factors including speed limit, tunnel length, truck involvement, rear-end crash, rainy and foggy weather and sequential crash have positive contributions to crash severity in freeway tunnels. Practical applications: Policy implications for traffic control and management are advised to improve traffic safety level in freeway tunnels.     

基于AHP可拓综合方法的公路隧道安全等级判定研究

研究了公路隧道安全现状的评价体系,并应用可拓集理论、层次分析法和有关隧道安全评价的专业知识,将可拓集理论与安全评价相结合,建立基于可拓学的公路隧道安全评价分析的物元模型。对辽宁阜新大巴沟隧道运用了这种新的安全评价方法,实践表明:基于AHP可拓综合方法的公路隧道安全评价方法可以准确反映公路隧道的安全等级。