General safety concepts used in transport

Abstract

The article presents selected concepts, models and theories of safety known from research and applications in various areas of technology and suitable for use in the field of transport. In particular, attention was paid to cognitively promising in the field of transport safety, and relatively little used research concepts here: Normal Accident Theory (NAT) Ch.Perrow, "Swiss cheese model" /SCh-M/ by J. Reason, concepts of "safe space of action" by J. Rasmussen and R. Amalberti, the concept of High Reliability Organizations /HRO/, or even interpretations of the transport system as a complex system (CS). The main aim of the article was to present some important general safety concepts and show that they can be used to model safety in the field of transport. The article shows that the so-called Geysen's thesis allows for the development of justified safety analogies between transport systems and such systems of technology that have greater scientific and engineering achievements in the field of safety.

Structural design and selected aspects of numerical simulations of a prototype container-platform for intermodal transport

“…The use of original mathematical models, broadly understood numerical methods and computer simulations to solve contemporary transport problems, testing the strength and functionality of the rolling stock and delivery equipment, subassemblies or other elements of infrastructure and logistics systems, including rail and road transport, is more and more popular in scientific publications [14][15][16].…”

“…The paper [15] presents selected concepts, models and theories of safety that can be used in the field of transport. Research on the effectiveness of the selected Polish regional rail carriers in the years 2017-2020 is shown in [16].…”