Securing Transportation Systems [Hardcover]

Addresses a variety of challenges and solutions within the transportation security sphere in order to protect our transportation systems
?Provides innovative solutions to improved communication and creating joint operations centers to manage response to threats
?Details technological measures to protect our transportation infrastructure, and explains their feasibility and economic costs
?Discusses changes in travel behavior as a response to terrorism and natural disaster
?Explains the role of transportation systems in supporting response operations in large disasters
?Written with a worldwide scope

Contributors List ix

Foreword xiii

Preface xv

1 Introduction 1
Gila Albert, Erwin A. Blackstone, Simon Hakim, and Yoram Shiftan

Section I Motivation and Challenges 23

2 Terrorist Targeting of Public Transportation: Ideology and Tactics 25
Shmuel Bar

3 On the Rationality and Optimality of Transportation Networks Defense: A Network Centrality Approach 35
Yaniv Altshuler, Rami Puzis, Yuval Elovici, Shlomo Bekhor, and Alex (Sandy) Pentland

4 Adaptive Resilience and Critical Infrastructure Security: Emergent Challenges for Transportation and Cyberphysical Infrastructure 65
Corri Zoli and Laura J. Steinberg

5 Travelers Perceptions of Security for LongDistance Travel: An Exploratory Italian Study 91
Eva Valeri, Amanda Stathopoulos, and Edoardo Marcucci

6 Securing Transportation Systems from Radiological Threats 109
Eric P. Rubenstein, Gordon A. Drukier, and Peter Zimmerman

7 Protecting Transportation Infrastructure against RadiolÃØ