Qualitative Approach to Environmental Risk Assessment in Transport

Zdenek Dvorak, David Rehak, Andrej David and Zoran Cekerevac
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Zdenek Dvorak: Faculty of Security Engineering, University of Zilina, 01026 Zilina, Slovakia
David Rehak: Faculty of Safety Engineering, VSB—Technical University of Ostrava, 70030 Ostrava, Czech Republic
Andrej David: Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina, 01026 Zilina, Slovakia
Zoran Cekerevac: Faculty of Business and Law, Union—Nikola Tesla University, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 15, 1-18

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present the development of a qualitative approach to environmental risk assessment (QAERA) in transport. The approach is described as a model developed for the future software tool which will be utilizable as a risk decision support system. The basic part is aimed on developing a quantitative environmental risk assessment. Thus, this paper describes a set of 6 pillars of safety and security. Accordingly, the paper contains both chosen safety and security indicators and selected criteria for assessing the risk of launching the environmental change of global model thinking in the transport sector. The environmental risk assessment as a global model of thinking was originally based on historical experience but, nowadays, it is changing. Based on new expert knowledge, more precisely, on input of new global data, paper displays an environmental risk assessment with actual interpretation. The discussion of the paper is oriented to support research results, a new knowledge-oriented approach to global climate changes, using suitable risk assessment methods and technics. The result of the paper is a new approach for the modeling of environmental risk assessment in the transport sector.

Keywords: risk assessment; transport sector; environment; common safety method; decision support system; expert evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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