Securing transportation systems

"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.

1. Introduction / Gila Albert, Erwin A. Blackstone, Simon Hakim, and Yoram Shiftan -- Section A: Motivation and challenges -- 2. Terrorist targeting of public transportation -- ideology and tactics / Shmuel Bar -- 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 -- 4. Adaptive resilience and critical infrastructure security: emergent challenges for transportation and cyber-physical infrastructure / Corri Zoli and Laura J. Steinberg -- 5. Travellers' perceptions of security for long-distance travel: an explorative / Eva Valeri, Amanda Stathopoulos, and Edoardo Marcucci -- 6. Securing transportation systems from radiological threats / Eric P. Rubenstein, Gordon A. Drukier, and Peter Zimmerman -- 7. Protecting transportation infrastructure against radiological threat / Ilan Yaar, Itzhak Halevy, Zvi Berenstein and Avi Sharon -- Section B: Security consideration for modes of transportation -- 8. Securing public transit systems / Martin Wachs, Camille Fink, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Brian D. Taylor -- 9. Railroad infrastructure: protecting…