Citation

Spadoni G, Contini S, Uguccioni G. Process. Saf. Environ. Prot. 2003; 81(1): 19-30.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Institution of Chemical Engineers and European Federation of Chemical Engineering, Publisher Hemisphere Publishing)

DOI

10.1205/095758203762851958

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The concentration of industrial activities located close to residential areas poses problems of land use planning, risk control, emergency planning and responses to public authorities. The decision-making process requires the analysis of a large amount of information on risk sources, accident modelling, population distribution, etc. The treatment of such information needs the support of informatic tools. ARIPAR version 3.0 is a software package that implements a probabilistic methodology for the assessment of the risks of complex industrial areas, including transport of dangerous substances, to obtain a number of different risk measures. The paper illustrates the basis of the methodology and the main features of the software; some elements from real applications on industrial areas in Italy are presented as well.