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An advanced risk analysis approach for container port safety evaluation

Alyami, H, Lee, PT-W, Yang, Z, Riahi, R, Bonsall, S and Wang, J (2014) An advanced risk analysis approach for container port safety evaluation. MARITIME POLICY & MANAGEMENT, 41 (7). pp. 634-650. ISSN 0308-8839

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Abstract

Risk analysis in seaports plays an increasingly important role in ensuring port operation reliability, maritime transportation safety and supply chain distribution resilience. However, the task is not straightforward given the challenges, including that port safety is affected by multiple factors related to design, installation, operation and maintenance and that traditional risk assessment methods such as quantitative risk analysis cannot sufficiently address uncertainty in failure data. This paper develops an advanced Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) approach through incorporating Fuzzy Rule-Based Bayesian Networks (FRBN) to evaluate the criticality of the hazardous events (HEs) in a container terminal. The rational use of the Degrees of Belief (DoB) in a fuzzy rule base (FRB) facilitates the implementation of the new method in Container Terminal Risk Evaluation (CTRE) in practice. Compared to conventional FMEA methods, the new approach integrates FRB and BN in a complementary manner, in which the former provides a realistic and flexible way to describe input failure information while the latter allows easy updating of risk estimation results and facilitates real-time safety evaluation and dynamic risk-based decision support in container terminals. The proposed approach can also be tailored for wider application in other engineering and management systems, especially when instant risk ranking is required by the stakeholders to measure, predict and improve their system safety and reliability performance.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Maritime Policy and Management on 27/11/2014, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03088839.2014.960498
Uncontrolled Keywords: 16 Studies In Human Society, 15 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services, 14 Economics
Subjects: T Technology > TC Hydraulic engineering. Ocean engineering
V Naval Science > VM Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering
Divisions: Maritime & Mechanical Engineering (merged with Engineering 10 Aug 20)
Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
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Date Deposited: 26 May 2015 12:59
Last Modified: 04 Sep 2021 14:21
DOI or ID number: 10.1080/03088839.2014.960498
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/1155
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