"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.
Transportation is an important part of any developed area, however these systems are also highly vulnerable to terrorist attack. This book brings together top experts to explore prevention, response and recovery from terrorists attacks, and natural disasters on transportation systems--including airports, water ports, highways, tunnels, bridges, rail, and mass transit. A major theme through out the book is the need to remove some of the responsibility for securing transportation from the government and contract out to others. The articles are divided into three main sections: motivations for attacking transit systems and specific radiological, cyber, and nuclear challenges that these systems may face; what security considerations can be taken for different forms of transportation; and evacuation specific problems in the event of a problem. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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. It contains insights and recommendations from a group of international recognized experts and provides guidelines for policy and public decision making including suggestions for IT companies for possible new products.
