VATDIS Web Mapping - A Report on the Application of Open Standards and Open Architecture in Geospatial Interoperability for Emergency Management

This report provides an overview of the web mapping activities carried out in the VATDIS action in 2007. These web mapping activities aimed at integrating the work done for the Orchestra, Floodsite and Preview IP into one single demonstrator. In the main section of this report an outline is given of the reasons for integrating the projects and the contents of this integration. The report should be seen as a summary of the technical choices made in order to accomplish this integration. The annexes on this report help the more technical reader to understand the design of the demonstrator and to duplicate it for its own purposes.JRC.G.7-Traceability and vulnerability assessmen

Modelling Distributed Vulnerabilities in a Complex Network

Europe is increasingly dependent on large scale infrastructure networks that supply crucial resources. Supply vulnerability is not only dependent on economic or political issues but also on the integrity of the physical networks. The aim of this study is to develop a methodology to analyse the potential impact of failures or disruptions to such networks. These failures may result from technological, manmade (intentional or not) and natural causes such as earthquakes, subsidence, landslides and flooding. Such Natech events have a potential to create multiple dependent failures in the network. The international transmission pipeline system supplying Europe with gas from Russia, North Africa and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has been considered as such an infrastructure. A detailed network flow model for three European countries using available data and various assumptions regarding the pipelines, associated infrastructure such as compressor stations and storage fields and supply/demand scenarios has been developed. Extension of the model to additional countries is anticipated. A methodology has been developed that combines the network model with an analysis of the consequences of infrastructure vulnerability on the economic losses resulting from loss of gas supply.JRC.G.7-Traceability and vulnerability assessmen

Non-Binding Guidelines - For Application of the Council Directive on the Identification and Designation of European Critical Infrastructure and the Assessment of the Need to Improve Their Protection

In June 2004, the European Council asked the European Commission to prepare an overall strategy to protect European critical infrastructures. In December 2006 a European Programme for Critical Infrastructure Protection (EPCIP), was adopted by the Commission. A key element of EPCIP is the proposal of a new Directive on the 'identification and designation of European Critical Infrastructures and the assessment of the need to improve their protection'. Under this Directive, such European Critical Infrastructures should be identified and designated by means of a common procedure and the evaluation of security requirements for such infrastructures should be done under a common minimum approach. This document provides guidance to assist Member States with the application of the Directive on the identification and designation of European critical infrastructures and the assessment of the need to improve their protection.JRC.G.7-Traceability and vulnerability assessmen

Risk Assessment for the Road Network in the French-Italian Border Region Using Web Services

This article discusses a pilot implementation of the architecture and web services being developed within the EC Framework Programme 6 Integrated Project "Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure for Risk Management" (ORCHESTRA, http://www.eu-orchestra.org/) being undertaken by BRGM, JRC and Ordnance Survey with the collaboration of local partners in the French-Italian border region between Nice and Genoa. The basis of the pilot is the evaluation of risk to the road network and the impact of road network disruption by, for example: earthquakes, landslides, floods, fires and chemical spills. Road closures can have a dramatic impact on the economic, social and functional life of a region and these impacts can spread far from the site of the blockage and, even, across international borders. The region chosen for this pilot project is especially prone to hazardous events and also, due to the lack of redundancy in the road network within the region, disruption to a major route can have a large effect. This pilot will seek to create a distributed network of web services that will access hazard, route and traffic information held within databases based at the data providers.JRC.G.7-Traceability and vulnerability assessmen