TPM024A Individual Assignment 1

Due by 10 p.m., May 16, 2022

1. Please describe “engineering risk” in your own words by answering the following sub-
questions:
a. What are the essential dimensions of “engineering risk”? (2.5 marks)
b. Find an example in your discipline (civil, mechanical, or chemical engineering) to
explain the concept of “risk” and how this type of risk can be assessed. Please
draw a flowchart to explain this procedure (2.5 marks)

2. A person wants to travel from City A to City B. The traveller has four options with following
details.
Transportation Probability of Accident Average number of persons in
mode fatality accident rate (/year) each transportation mode
Car 0.5 0.6 2
Train 0.4 0.03 90
Bus 0.2 0.1 45
Airplane 0.8 0.05 100

Which mode of transport is safest for him considering available first-hand information provided
by the above table considering only the probability of fatality accident and accident rate? To
refine the decision details for travel time is collected for each mode of transportation and is listed
below. Using this information (considering both average number of persons and travel time in
each transportation mode) to refine the risk values for this journey and suggest the safest mode
of travel for this traveller? (5 marks)

Transportation mode Travel time (hours)

Car 24
Train 20
Bus 30
Airplane 4