| dc.description.abstract | This report scrutinises the impact a serious failure in the transportation system will have on the public community. The
report is part of the project “BAS4 - Measures to reduce vulnerability in the transport sector”.
The work was conducted in two ways: One was to identify functions critical to society, such as health care,
telecommunication, food-, power-, fuel- and water supply, and identify the needs for transport. By doing this, each
function has been investigated separately, and thereafter cross-dependencies among those sectors and the transport
system have been identified. The other technique was to study cases were transport in some way was disturbed, either
by terrorism or by an accident, and to extract generalised conclusions about the consequences.
The findings in this report are that the modern society is extremely dependent upon transport, which makes up the basis
for economic welfare. It is thus found that a failure in the transport system, depending upon duration, over time will
have deep impact on the economy of the affected area. Another major finding in this report, is how the consequences for
the different society functions, are strongly affected by elapsed time. Finally, the impact of different circumstances, such
as emergency preparedness, time of the year, demography and population density on transportation breakdown, are
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