Addresses a variety of challenges and solutions within the transportation security sphere in order to protect our transportation systems.

Table of Contents

• Contributors List
• Foreword
• Preface
• 1 Introduction Gila Albert, Erwin A. Blackstone, Simon Hakim, and Yoram Shiftan
• Section I 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 Cyberphysical Infrastructure Corri Zoli and Laura J. Steinberg
• 5 Travelers' Perceptions of Security for Long-Distance Travel: An Exploratory Italian Study 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 II Security Consideration for Modes of Transportation
• 8 Securing Public Transit Systems Martin Wachs, Camille N.Y. Fink, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Brian D. Taylor
• 9 Railroad Infrastructure: Protecting an Increasingly Vulnerable Asset Jeremy F. Plant and Richard R. Young
• 10 Freight Railroad Security: A Case Study of Post-9/11 Effectiveness Roland D. Pandolfi, Jr.
• 11 Cost-Effective Airport Security Policy Robert W. Poole, Jr.
• 12 Seaport Operations and Security Willard Price and Ali Hashemi
• 13 Pathologies of Privatization in the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program Benjamin Inman and John C. Morris
• 14 T raveler's Security Perceptions and Port Choices Amalia Polydoropoulou and Athena Tsirimpa
• 15 Pipeline Security Luca Talarico, Kenneth Sörensen, Genserik Reniers, and Johan Springael
• Section III The Role of Transportation in Evacuation
• 16 Evacuation from Disaster Zones: Lessons from recent disasters in Australia and Japan Daniel Baldwin Hess and Christina M. Farrell
• 17 Evacuation Planning and Preparedness in the Aftermath of Katrina, Rita, Irene, and Sandy: Lessons Learned David S. Heller
• 18 Rural Evacuation and Public Transportation Jaydeep Chaudhari, Zhirui Ye, and Dhrumil Patel