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Abstract
Using GIS to Examine Risk-Taking and System Hazard Among Rare EventsTrack: Transportation and Logistics
Author(s): Gisela Bichler-Robertson
This paper explores the utility of GIS for examining risk-taking and system hazards associated with maritime commercial passenger ship casualties (1950-1998). Complicating the analysis of these rare events (n=532) is their wide geographic distribution. To account for important regional factors affecting maritime transportation, the world required division into 10 regions -- Southeast Asia, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Africa, Northern Pacific, Northeastern United States, and Other--which serves to limit spatial analyses. This paper explores ways to resolve this issue by combining GIS with traditional analytical techniques.
Gisela Bichler-Robertson
California State University, San Bernardino
5500 University Parkway
San Bernardino, CA 92407
USA
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Fax: 909/880-7025
E-mail: gbichler@csusb.edu