Criticality and threat analysis on utility tunnels for planning security policies of utilities in urban underground space

A utility tunnel is defined as an underground structure containing one or more utilities, permitting the installation, maintenance and removal of the systems without the necessity of making street cuts or excavations. These underground facilities contain all essential utilities serving large urban a...

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Authors: Canto-Perello, Julian|||0000-0002-0076-6570, Jorge Curiel-Esparza|||0000-0002-2453-5822, Calvo Peña, Vicente|||0000-0002-1275-6572
Format: article
Publication Date:2013
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repository:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/50836
Online Access:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/50836
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Utilities security strategies
Utility tunnels networks
Urban underground space
Color-coded scaled Delphi method
Analytic Hierarchy Process
INGENIERIA MECANICA
INGENIERIA DE LA CONSTRUCCION
FISICA APLICADA
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Summary:A utility tunnel is defined as an underground structure containing one or more utilities, permitting the installation, maintenance and removal of the systems without the necessity of making street cuts or excavations. These underground facilities contain all essential utilities serving large urban areas collected together in a tunnel; therefore they are an inviting target for sabotage or vandalism. This paper proposes an expert system combining color-coded scales, Delphi and AHP methods to analyze criticality and threats on utility tunnels to support planning of security policies for utilities in urban subsurface.