Establishing Public Policy as a Primary Cause of Engineering Failure: Did Market Deregulation Lead to the North American 'Blackout', August 14th 2003?
- Topics:
- Accidents
- Tags:
- Blackout,
- Regulations,
- Productivity,
- Policies And Procedures,
- Networking,
- Network Administration,
- Human Resources,
- Government,
- Deregulation,
- Cause,
- ...
- Source:
- University of Glasgow
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Overview: On the 14th August 2003, a complex combination of latent problems and catalytic events led to a domino-effect in which 50 million people suffered some interruption to their power supplies. Losses have been estimated between $5-10 billion. It is, therefore, one of the most wide reaching and serious 'blackouts' in a national power distribution network. The causes of this infrastructure failure included technical issues to do with network capacity and the algorithms used to predict potential distribution problems. The following paper applies accident investigation techniques to represent and reason about the complex interactions between these causes.
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Format: PDF | Size: 246KB | Date: Feb 2006 | Pages: 23
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