"The fact that pipelines run largely underground reduces their exposure to external threats," said a study concerning infrastructure safety conducted by the Congressional Research Service in 2002.
Before this week's vote, the I.O.C.'s executive board evaluated each candidate city based on its technical abilities to host the Games, looking at 11 categories that included general infrastructure, safety and security, sports venues, Olympic village and transportation.
The assessment is designed to help companies determine what, if any, additional compensation or benefits they should offer employees they are sending abroad, and takes into consideration factors such as climate, health services, housing, leisure facilities, infrastructure, safety, political tensions and air quality.
Urban infrastructure safety information collection and investigation from public participants has become a trend in the era of big data.
The build-up to the World Cup was dominated by legitimate fears over stadiums, infrastructure, safety and protests, but many of the concerns failed to materialise.
Tool items represent rural built environment features that influence active living and physical activity: community design, transportation infrastructure, safety, aesthetics, and recreational facilities.
Three others including infrastructure and safety, safety from traffic, no major barriers, were not associated with any of the walking outcomes.
The increasing death and disability from road trauma in middle-income countries can be largely attributed to massively increasing motorisation in the context of inadequate infrastructure, vehicular safety and safe system regulation (Peden et al., 2004).
In addition to that, it was used in the context of IN-SAFETY (INfrandructure and SAFETY) project, once again under the objective of evaluating a bundle of measures which aimed at increasing road safety [28].
