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Jaime Santos-Reyes

Jaime Santos-Reyes is a lecturer at the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico, whose main research interests are seismic risk, safety management systems, critical infrastructures modelling, accident and risk analysis, reliability engineering. He obtained a PhD from Heriot-Watt University, UK, in 2001. He has spent 3 years working as a research associate at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

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Impact of Disasters in Higher Education: Disruption and Facility Affectations

The chapter presents the results of the impact of the two 2017 earthquakes that occurred in Mexico City and the hurricane Otis that hit Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. Moreover, the...

Predicting Rainfall by Fuzzy Logic: A Preliminary Analysis of a Case Study in Mexico

Water is vital to all living things; water is life. According to the UNDP water scarcity affects more than two billion people and it is projected to rise as temperatures do due...

Accidents in Mass Transit Systems: The Case of Trolleybus in Mexico City

The chapter presents the results of a spatiotemporal analysis of accident occurrence of the trolleybus mass transit system in Mexico City. Chi-square analysis for goodness of fit...

Planning for a Trip: Selecting the Mode of Air Transport

The chapter presents the results of selecting the mode air travel by considering other modes of transportation to highlight public's preferences of mode transport. The...

September 2017 Mexico City Earthquakes: A Case Study of the Mexican Seismic Alert System (SASMEX)

The chapter presents the results on the performance of the SASMEX during the 2017 earthquakes that hit Mexico City. The approach has been the use of a questionnaire-based survey...

Temporal Accident Trends of Bus Rapid Transit Line 1 in Mexico City

The chapter presents the results of historical accident data on BRT L1 that have occurred in Mexico City from 2015-2020. Some of the key findings were the following: 1) A total...