Intermodal Maritime Security

Gary A. Gordon is a Professor of Professional Practice at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He holds a Ph.D. and B.S in Civil Engineering, and MBA from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland. Prior to academia, Dr. Gordon had a lengthy career in transportation operations, security and infrastructure design and construction, to include in the U.S. Army Reserve. During his career he held positions as Assistant Federal Security Director-Surface Transportation for DHS/Transportation Security Administration and Assistant Chief Engineer-Design & Construction of a former Class I Northeast Railroad. He is a co-editor of Intermodal Maritime Security: Supply Chain Risk Mitigation, co-author of Railway Security: Protecting Against Manmade and Natural Disasters and Securing Integrated Transportation Networks and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Transportation Security. Richard R. Young is Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at The Pennsylvania State University. He holds a B.S. in Operations Management from Rider University, M.B.A. from Albany University, and Ph.D. in Business Logistics from The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Young is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport of the United Kingdom and is accepted to practice before the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission. Prior to academia, he held various supply chain management positions in industry. Dr. Young is on the editorial boards of several leading supply chain journals, a Fulbright German Research Scholar, and he received the 2008 Distinguished Educator Award of the National Défense Transportation Association. He is co-author of the book Railway Security: Protecting Against Manmade and Natural Disasters and co-editor of Intermodal Maritime Security: Supply Chain Risk Mitigation.

• Section I Introduction1. 9/11, MTSA and how we got to where we areSection II Overview of Intermodal Maritime Operations2. Intermodalism History, Advantages, and Disadvantages3. Water and Landside Components4. Other Transportation ModesSection III The Nature of Intermodal Maritime Security Risk5. Nature of the Intermodal Maritime Security Risk6. Components of Intermodal Maritime Security Risk7. Threats from Terrorists and other Violent Non-State Actors8. Physical and Technological Considerations9. Vulnerabilities, Gaps and the Future of Physical and Technological Security Measures10. Information Security and Cyber Threats and VulnerabilitiesSection IV Security Measures and Public Policy11. Multilateral Trading Partner Policies12. Intermodal Transport Security: An Israeli PerspectiveSection V Risk Mitigation Approach13. Assessment at Foreign Ports of Loading14. In-Transit Threats and Risk Management15. Assessment at U.S. Ports16. Routing Analysis, Risk and ResiliencySection VI The Way Forward: Recommendations17. Application of Systems Theory18. Public Policy and Security Partnerships19. Intermodal Maritime Security: Where Do We Go From Here?