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Securing America's passenger-rail systems
- Title
- Securing America's passenger-rail systems / Jeremy M. Wilson [and others].
- Publication
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corp., 2007.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Wilson, Jeremy M., 1974-
- Description
- xx, 122 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm
- Summary
- U.S. communities depend on reliable, safe, and secure rail systems. Each weekday, more than 12 million passengers take to U.S. railways. This book explains a framework for security planners and policymakers to guide cost-effective rail-security planning, specifically for the risk of terrorism. Risk is a function of threat, vulnerability, and consequences. This book focuses on addressing vulnerabilities and limiting consequences.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-122).
- Contents
- Introduction -- What are the key rail-attack threats and their consequences? -- Qualitative risk assessment for a notational passenger-rail system -- Baseline security and operational characteristics of the notational rail system -- Cost-effectiveness assessment of security-improvement options for the notational rail system -- Rail-security policy considerations.
- ISBN
- 9780833041173
- 0833041177
- LCCN
- 2007048795
- OCLC
- ocn182621570
- 182621570
- SCSB-1457483
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library