Protecting Transportation Infrastructure

In the context of homeland security, critical infrastructures are "those physical and information technology facilities, networks, services and assets which, if disrupted or destroyed, would have a serious impact on the health, safety, security, or economic well-being of citizens or the effective functioning of governments." Transportation infrastructures are a key component of a nation's critical infrastructures, covering physical assets such as airports, ports, and railway and mass transit networks as well as software systems such as traffic control systems. In effect, among various critical infrastructures spanning a range of economic sectors and government operations, transportation is widely viewed as one of the most significant and impactful. A 2002 study concerning the significance of infrastructure components and the consequences of a destructive event rated transportation as "extremely significant." Other components at this highest level of significance were communications, power, emergency response personnel and assets, and national security resources.

[1]  N. Haering,et al.  Automatic Visual Analysis for Transportation Security , 2007, 2007 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security.

[2]  Helen Wallace,et al.  The Council and the European Parliament , 1997 .

[3]  S.F. Hallowell,et al.  Transportation security technologies research and development , 2005, MILCOM 2005 - 2005 IEEE Military Communications Conference.

[4]  T. M. Wood,et al.  An infrastructure vulnerability assessment methodology for metropolitan areas , 2002, Proceedings. 36th Annual 2002 International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology.

[5]  Randall A. Yim.  NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS: Integrating New and Existing Technology and Information Sharing into an Effective Homeland Security Strategy , 2002 .

[6]  Hsinchun Chen,et al.  Intelligence and security informatics for homeland security: information, communication, and transportation , 2004, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

[7]  E. Cohen.  Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism , 2002 .

[8]  Yacov Y. Haimes,et al.  Virgina's critical infrastructure protection study , 2003, IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium, 2003.

[9]  J.F. Nunamaker,et al.  Identification of deceptive behavioral cues extracted from video , 2005, Proceedings. 2005 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2005..

[10]  Scott Greiper,et al.  Beyond Aviation: The Emerging Ground Transportation Security Market , 2006 .