Securing transportation systems
By: edited by, Simon Hakim, Gila Albert, Yoram Shiftan
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Hoboken, New Jersey
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781118977934
Subjects: Safety measures; Transportation; Prevention; Effect of terrorism on; Security measures; Terrorism; Freight and freightage
Description: "This book focuses on how to protect our transportation systems including airports and airlines, water ports, highways, tunnels and bridges, rail and mass transit, and how to better plan evacuation when severe disasters occur. These infrastructures may face various threats, namely biological, chemical, nuclear (dirty bombs), cyber, and natural disaster. The book presents the "State of the Art" efforts to improve technological and managerial security measures against terrorism as well as during and after natural disasters"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction / Gila Albert, Erwin A. Blackstone, Simon Hakim, and Yoram Shiftan; title: Section A: Motivation and challenges; title: 2. Terrorist targeting of public transportation - ideology and tactics / Shmuel Bar; title: 3. On the rationality and optimality of transportation networks defense - a network centrality approach /  Yaniv Altshuler, Rami Puzis, Yuval Elovici, Shlomo Bekhor, and Alex (Sandy) Pentland; title: 4. Adaptive resilience and critical infrastructure security: emergent challenges for transportation and cyber-physical infrastructure / Corri Zoli and Laura J. Steinberg; title: 5. Travellers' perceptions of security for long-distance travel: an explorative / Eva Valeri, Amanda Stathopoulos, and Edoardo Marcucci; title: 6. Securing transportation systems from radiological threats / Eric P. Rubenstein, Gordon A. Drukier, and Peter Zimmerman; title: 7. Protecting transportation infrastructure against radiological threat  / Ilan Yaar, Itzhak Halevy, Zvi Berenstein and Avi Sharon; title: Section B: Security consideration for modes of transportation; title: 8. Securing public transit systems / Martin Wachs, Camille Fink, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Brian D. Taylor; title: 9. Railroad infrastructure: protecting an increasingly vulnerable asset / Jeremy F. Plant and Richard R. Young; title: 10. Freight railroad security: a case study of post-9/11 effectiveness / Roland D. Pandolfi; title: 11. Cost-effective airport security policy / Robert W. Poole; title: 12. Seaport operations and security / Willard Price and Ali Hashemi; title: 13. Pathologies of privatization in the transportation worker identification credential program / Benjamin Inman and John C. Morris; title: 14. Traveler's security perceptions and port choices / Amalia Polydoropoulou and Athena Tsirimpa; title: 15. Pipeline security / Luca Talarico, Kenneth Sörensen, Genserik Reniers, and Johan Springael; title: Section C: The role of transportation in evacuation; title: 16. Evacuation from disaster zones: lessons from recent disasters in Australia and Japan / Daniel B. Hess and Christina M. Farrell; title: 17.  Evacuation planning and preparedness in the aftermath of Katrina, Rita, Irene and Sandy - lessons learned / David S. Heller; title: 18. Rural evacuation and public transportation / Jaydeep Chaudhari, Zhirui Ye, and Dhrumil Patel.