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Reliability and vulnerabilityversus costs and benefits
The vulnerability of road networks in a cost-benefit perspective
Jan Husdal, MoldeUniversity College, Molde, Norway
ETC 20044 –6 OctoberStrasbourg, France
 
Question
•
Why
(and how) should we apply
vulnerability
(andreliability) in
cost-benefit
evaluations or project evaluationsin general?•This is particularly an issue in sparse non-urban transportnetworks, where the presence of vulnerability is more anproblem than reliability (because the transport network is soessential for access to community services for the localpopulation and access to markets for the local businesses)•By adding vulnerability (and reliability) to the traditionalequations of costs and benefits, transport planners anddecision-makers may consider not only economicalarguments (costs versus benefits).
 
Contentions
•Reliability (of a transport network)
 –The probability that one or more of its links functions, orrather: does not fail to function.
•Vulnerability
 –The network’s susceptibility to failure.
•Additional costs incur when persons, travellers or goods donot reach their destination in space or time as intended.
 –Delays –Diversions –Late delivery or non-delivery –Just-in-time –Perishable goods
•Reliability…………
Benefit
Vulnerability……...
Cost
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