Securing Integrated Transportation Networks

Gary A. Gordon, Richard R. Young

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780323954099
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323954082
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Public Policy
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Securing Integrated Transportation Networks provides a comprehensive look at multimodal transportation security—its dynamics, evolving threats and technology advances that enhance operational security and related infrastructure protection and hardening, as well as the regulatory environment. As threats are evolving, so is the technology used in enhancing transportation security, operational procedures, and regulations. This book will address this dynamic evolution of transportation security. This book serves as a primary reference for information on of the range of activities and components involved in transportation security. It covers the myriad moving parts involved in the relationship between and among logistics, the supply chains and transportation entities, and the concepts, approaches and methods that are being employed to effect greater security. It looks at operations, infrastructure, equipment, laws and regulations, policies and procedures, and risk focused on transportation safety and security by mode and transportation in general. Cooperation and partnering with and among the industry, to include transportation providers and government agencies, is the way forward to ensure that security is maintained and keeps pace with the evolving threat and regulatory landscape. This book benefits students in homeland security, supply chain management and transportation planning and engineering by providing a practical resource written by industry practitioners with "boots-on-the-ground" security experience and analysis of real-world case studies. In addition, it provides a practitioner-focused reference book for those in the transportation and supply chain industries, to include its government, associated industries, and academic partners. - Introduces readers to the characteristics of the motive power, freight or passage haulage units, physical infrastructure required, the operating environment itself and the information technology applicable to both operating and managing customer-provider relationships—all of which to foster safe, secure, effective, and efficient operations - Includes discussion questions and case studies available for assignments and subsequent classroom discussion, whereby real-world scenarios serve to hone analytical abilities - Discusses the risks and vulnerabilities that various supply chains and associated transportation modes may pose to the ability of a firm to maintain ongoing operations, helping them to analyze trade-offs and mitigate threats

Table of contents

• Securing Integrated Transportation Networks
• Chapter 1 Overview of transportation and why we want to secure it∗∗ Note: Much of the content in this chapter is based on the myriad personal experiences of the authors, which originate from both government and private sector events.
• Chapter 2 Transportation security before and after 9/11
• Chapter 3 Federal agencies—Regulation and the promotion of economic growth
• Chapter 4 Who are the parties involved and what are their relationships?∗∗ Much of the content of this chapter is based on the personal experiences of the chapter authors and includes both government and private sectors.
• Chapter 5 Components and economics of transportation security
• Chapter 6 Nature of transported people and goods
• Chapter 7 Threats, vulnerabilities, consequences, and risks
• Chapter 8 Natural versus manmade disasters
• Chapter 9 Assessing risk
• Chapter 10 Cyber threats and risks
• Chapter 11 Highway and motor carrier including shipping and postal transportation
• Chapter 12 Freight, passenger, and commuter rail11 Much of this chapter is written based on the prior experience of the author as an engineering officer of a former Class I freight railroad and as a security manager for TSA.
• Chapter 13 Bus and rail transit
• Chapter 14 Maritime transportation
• Chapter 15 Aviation
• Chapter 16 Intermodal versus multimodal transportation
• Chapter 17 Pipelines
• Chapter 18 What is being done about transportation security?
• Chapter 19 Physical versus operational security measures
• Chapter 20 Where do we go from here?
• Index