Print Email Facebook Twitter The vulnerability of road networks: Now and in the future Title The vulnerability of road networks: Now and in the future Author Snelder, M. Tavasszy, L.A. Immers, L.H. Van Zuylen, H.J. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Transport en Planning Date 2008-10-31 Abstract Transport networks in major urban areas are becoming more and more vulnerable to unforeseen disturbances in transport networks, like incidents. For the near future, we expect an increasing number of incidents with a large impact due to the overall increase of the traffic load. In this paper the hypothesis is tested that, if no measures are taken, the impact of incidents increases in the future and, therefore, the vulnerability of the road network increases. It is shown that the current network of the area The Hague-Rotterdam in the Netherlands is already vulnerable. If the demand increases, the increase in total travel time is more than linear with the increase in demand in the situation without an incident. The impact of incidents also increases when the level of demand increases. This results in the overall conclusion that it is necessary to make the road network more robust. Subject vulnerabilityrobustnessincidentsroad networkspare capacity To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e918319c-021c-4f0a-b0d7-087f18b7c950 Publisher TRAIL Research School ISBN 9789055841073 Source 10th TRAIL Congress: TRAIL in Perspective, October 2008 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2008 The Author(s)TRAIL Research School Files PDF 220903.pdf 1.09 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e918319c-021c-4f0a-b0d7-087f18b7c950/datastream/OBJ/view