Securing America's passenger-rail systems
"This book explains a framework for security planners and policymakers to use to guide cost-effective rail-security planning, specifically for the risk of terrorism. Risk is a function of threat (presence of terrorists with intent, weapons, and capability to attack), vulnerability (likelihood of damage at a target, given an attack), and consequences (nature and scale of damages if an attack succeeds). While effective security solutions may address all three components of risk, this book focuses…
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- Full title :Securing America's passenger-rail systems / Jeremy M. Wilson [and others].
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"This book explains a framework for security planners and policymakers to use to guide cost-effective rail-security planning, specifically for the risk of terrorism. Risk is a function of threat (presence of terrorists with intent, weapons, and capability to attack), vulnerability (likelihood of damage at a target, given an attack), and consequences (nature and scale of damages if an attack succeeds). While effective security solutions may address all three components of risk, this book focuses on addressing vulnerabilities and limiting consequences, since these are the two components of risk most within the realm of rail-security personnel. The analysis is based on a notional rail system that characterizes rail systems typically found in the United States. The methodology presented is useful for planning rail-security options."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):RAND Corporation
- Place of Publication:Santa Monica, CA
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
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The Physical Object
- Description:xx, 122 pages : : illustrations ; : 26 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780833041173, 0833041177
- oclc:ocn230844509
- LC Classification:TF23
- Dewey Decimal:363.28/74
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