Railway Security
Protecting Against Manmade and Natural Disasters
This book provides an overview and assessment of the security risks, both manmade and natural, facing the railways and rail networks.Railroads face significant threats from disasters, but with situational awareness and coordinated effort these can often be substantially minimized. Transportation assets have always been vulnerable to natural disasters, but in the current environment these assets are also a preferred target of human-caused disruption, especially in the form of terrorism, as the events in many other parts of the world have underscored. Railways are not a homogeneous mode of transportation given their various roles in intercity a…
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Weitere Autoren: Gordon, Gary A. / Plant, Jeremy F.
- ISBN: 978-1-4200-8065-0
- EAN: 9781420080650
- Produktnummer: 23883788
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'204 KB
- Abbildungen: 11 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 23 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Richard R. Young is Professor of Supply Chain Management at the School of Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University, USA and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.Gary A. Gordon (Lt. Col., USA, Ret.) is Adjunct Faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA, and former Assistant Federal Security Director for DHS/TSA, Railroad Specialist for the former ICC, and Assistant Chief Engineer of a Northeast railroad.Jeremy F. Plant is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Administration, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, USA.
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