Surface transportation vulnerability assessment : general distribution version

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Risk assessment
  • Safety
  • Safety and security
  • Ground transportation
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Dept. of Transportation. Office of the Secretary
• Abstract:
  The United States possesses an effective and efficient surface transportation infrastructure that ; promotes both the well-being of its citizens as well as important economic and national security ; goals. The level of security afforded this infrastructure is relatively low compared to the security ; enhancements recently implemented in the commercial aviation sector. However, there is ; sufficient reason to believe that the security levels of the surface transportation modes need to be ; raised as the threat level increases and the vulnerabilities of the current infrastructure become ; apparent. There are potential threat scenarios where a significant loss of human life or a major ; disruption to a key segment of the nation’s transportation infrastructure could occur. Given this ; fact, it is essential that well-planned, coordinated actions be taken to reduce the possibility that ; such events occur. Such actions should represent a coordinated approach by a partnership of ; public and private sector institutions to: identify vulnerabilities and threats; and enhance the ; security of key surface transportation infrastructure segments and operations.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9414/dot_9414_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 640.78 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ae189d4b245d2c8b96e78844cd83ecbe8cd281e89bea892ae1d62287e49c119c3bd56ea9948a2a531367ba4f7ccc7b92f10218b777df112dfa2ec09896fd000f