Objective The European road network, particularly TERN highways and TENT projects, is of major importance for the European economy and the mobility of the European citizens. A major task of highway owners and operators is to ensure a high availability of all important links. Even smaller disruptions due to traffic restrictions or failure of road network elements lead to severe traffic interferences resulting in high economic follow-up costs and negative environmental impacts. Such infrastructures also constitute attractive terrorist targets due to their accessibility and great potential impact on human lives and economic activity. Attacks may cause considerable damage, including structural damage or demolition, substantial human casualties, socio-economic losses (unemployment, relocation of firms, reconstruction costs) and socio-political damage (public uncertainty, confidence loss) and even environmental consequences, each being accompanied by the related costs. Particularly bridges and tunnels, key elements of the road network, are highly vulnerable to terrorist attacks due to their bottleneck function. The SeRoN project will undertake a holistic approach both at individual infrastructure object and at road network level. Its main objectives are to investigate the impacts of possible terrorist attacks on the transport network, in particular the resulting regional and supra-regional impacts on transport links and their economic impacts. SeRoN will focus on the development of a methodology which is to help owners and operators to analyse critical road transport networks or parts hereof with regard to possible terrorist attacks. It will evaluate planned protection measures for critical road transport infrastructures concerning their impact on security and cost-effectiveness. Finally SeRoN will give adequate recommendations concerning possible current and future threat situations and the related most effective security measures. Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsterrorismsocial sciencessocial geographytransportsocial sciencessociologysocial issuesunemployment Keywords Critical infrastructures bridge and tunnel security cost-effectiveness analysis database impact assessment organisation protection risk analysis risk assessment road network threat analysis Programme(s) FP7-SECURITY - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Security Topic(s) ICT-SEC-2007-1.0-01 - Security systems integration, interconnectivity and interoperability: Risk assessment and contingency planning for interconnected transport or energy networks Call for proposal FP7-ICT-SEC-2007-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator PTV PLANUNG TRANSPORT VERKEHR GmbH EU contribution € 764 404,00 Address HAID UND NEU STRASSE 15 76131 Karlsruhe Germany See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Karlsruhe, Stadtkreis Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Michael Ortgiese (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BUNDESANSTALT FUER STRASSENWESEN Germany EU contribution € 337 715,00 Address BRUEDERSTRASSE 53 51427 Bergisch Gladbach See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Hildegard Behr-Greinert (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF LTD United Kingdom EU contribution € 101 568,00 Address AMBER COURT, WILLIAM ARMSTRONG DRIVE, NEWCASTLE BUSINESS PARK NE4 7YQ NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Steve Denton (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ Austria EU contribution € 195 143,00 Address RECHBAUERSTRASSE 12 8010 Graz See on map Region Südösterreich Steiermark Graz Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Gerald Pichler (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TRAFICON INTERNATIONAL NV Belgium EU contribution € 80 480,00 Address VLAMINGSTRAAT 19 8560 WEVELGEM See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Stephan Adriaenssens (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data ERNST BASLER + PARTNER AG Switzerland EU contribution € 172 800,00 Address ZOLLIKERSTRASSE 65 8702 ZOLLIKON See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Christoph Zulauf (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NIRAS AS Denmark EU contribution € 594 000,00 Address SORTEMOSEVEJ 19 3450 Alleroed See on map Region Danmark Hovedstaden Nordsjælland Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Solvejg Qvist (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
