By National Research Council
Read Online or Download Deterrence, protection, and preparation : the new transportation security imperative PDF
Best transportation books
Advanced Modeling for Transit Operations and Service Planning
During this name, specialists in public delivery deal with the present challenge of enhancing public transit platforms through making the most of new applied sciences and complex modelling suggestions. the foremost components open to development are carrier making plans and operations administration.
Evolving Transportation Networks
During the last centuries, the improvement of contemporary transportation has considerably remodeled human existence. the most subject matter of this publication is to appreciate the complexity of transportation improvement and version the method of community development together with its settling on elements, that may be topological, morphological, temporal, technological, fiscal, managerial, social or political.
Transportation Infrastructure: Environmental Challenges in Poland and Neighboring Countries
Specialists talk about the best way to fix, rehabilitate and modernize the transportation infrastructure in rising critical Europe. the focal point is on utilising glossy engineering applied sciences and administration decision-making applied sciences to unravel universal and nearby environmental concerns in floor transportation, with emphasis on roads and bridges.
The Politics of Transport in Twentieth-Century France
Joseph Jones's examine makes a speciality of the interval given that international struggle I. In those years the steadiness of the delivery global used to be shaken by way of the impression of motor vehicle pageant upon the railways' close to monopoly. A republican culture in response to worry of monopoloy and safety of neighborhood amenities had emerged within the period whilst rail was once king.
- Underground To Everywhere : London's Underground Railway in the Life of the Capital.
- Bituminous Mixtures and Pavements
- Structural Behavior of Asphalt Pavements
- Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 15001900
Additional resources for Deterrence, protection, and preparation : the new transportation security imperative
Example text
Following the September 11 attacks, data gathered from the air traffic control system were used to reconstruct the timing and pattern of the four airline hijackings. Much as cockpit voice recorders and flight data boxes are critical for reconstructing airline crashes, such analyses could prove helpful in designing better means of monitoring traffic and recognizing the early signs of an attack. How best to develop such investigative capabilities is a potentially important avenue of inquiry. 90150mvp(pg13_96) 8/28/02 9:13 AM Page 39 EXAMPLES OF KEY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY NEEDS REFERENCES ABBREVIATIONS CSTB NRC Computer Science and Telecommunication Board National Research Council Badolato, E.
Sound systems-level research and analyses—addressing operational, institutional, and societal dimensions—can bring these issues to light. To be sure, the restructuring of transportation security technologies, techniques, and procedures to form coherent systems will not be easy. It will require an ability and willingness to step back and define security goals and performance expectations; to identify the layered systems best suited to meeting those goals and expectations; and to work with many public, private, and foreign entities to implement those systems.
This system would also allow enforcement authorities having intelligence about a threat to take quicker and more effective action to identify suspect containers. Such a systematic and credible security system, which could be improved continually through the adoption of new technologies and techniques, would help reassure the public in the event of an incident, as well as aid in containing disruptions in the critical logistics system by precluding the need for a complete shutdown. ) 21 90150mvp(pg13_96) 8/28/02 9:13 AM Page 22 22 DETERRENCE, PROTECTION, AND PREPARATION: THE NEW TRANSPORTATION SECURITY IMPERATIVE destination ports and other border crossings.
