Transportation Security and Its Impact

This introductory chapter is from a textbook that presents an interdisciplinary approach to the issue of global preparedness from a transportation perspective. The text is designed to be a resource for educators, students, and the practicing professional community of planners, engineers, architects, managers, logisticians, and public officials who are involved or interested in any aspect of public and private transportation security risk assessment, situational awareness, management, and control. The authors consider the essential interrelationship among natural disasters, human disasters, and sustainable infrastructure that must be collectively addressed. In this chapter, the author first provides an overview of transportation security and its societal impact, the explains the purpose of the book. The remainder of the chapter describes and introduces the text's four distinct sections: transportation security and its impact; modal aspects of transportation security; technology applications to transportation security; and transportation security solutions, which offers numerous case examples.