The nation's vast air, land, and maritime transportation systems are marvels of innovation and productivity, but they are designed to be accessible, and their very function is to concentrate passenger and freight flows in ways that can create many vulnerabilities for terrorists to exploit. Prospects for defending against each of these vulnerabilities through traditional means, such as 'guards, guns, and gates,' are dim. The transportation sector is simply too large and the threats faced too diverse and ever-changing for such blanket approaches to work. Moreover, if applied in the large and diffuse transportation sector, these approaches run the risk of creating a diluted and patchwork collection of poorly connected defenses that disperse security resources while leaving many vulnerabilities unprotected against a terrorist attack. Transportation security can best be achieved through coherent security systems that are well integrated with transportation operations and are deliberately designed to deter terrorists even as they selectively guard against and prepare for terrorist attacks.
Deterrence, Protection, and Preparation: The New Transportation Security Imperative
2002
102 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Marine & Waterway Transportation , Transportation , Transportation Safety , Transportation & Traffic Planning , Transportation systems , Terrorism , Readiness , Security , Intermodal transportation systems , Availability , Defenses , Strategies , Research , Planning , Safety measures , United States , Homeland defense , Emergency preparedness , Infrastructure protection , Critical infrastructures