Securing Transportation Systems

Simon Hakim is professor of economics and the director of the Center for Competitive Government at Temple University. He earned an M.A and Ph.D. degrees in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He has published fifty eight scientific articles in leading economic, criminal justice, security and public policy journals.  He wrote over forty professional articles and edited fourteen books. Gila Albert has a Ph.D. in Transportation Sciences from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and is a Senior Researcher in Or Yarok  Association for Safer Driving in Israel and a Faculty in at HIT- Holon Institute of Technology, Israel in Faculty of Management  of Technology. Dr. Albert collaborates on projects funded by the European Commission, Israel Science Foundation, Transportation Research Institute at the Technion, National Road Safety Authority, and the Israeli Ministry of Transport.Yoram Shiftan is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Technion. He  is the editor of Transport Policy and the chair of the International Association of Travel Behavior Research (IATBR).  Prof. Shiftan received his Ph.D. from MIT and since then has published dozens of papers and co-edited the books "Transportation Planning" in the series of Classics in Planning, and “Transition towards Sustainable Mobility, The Role of Instruments, Individuals and Institutions.”

• Contributors List ixForeword xiiiPreface xv1 Introduction 1Gila Albert, Erwin A. Blackstone, Simon Hakim, and Yoram ShiftanSection I Motivation and Challenges 232 Terrorist Targeting of Public Transportation: Ideology and Tactics 25Shmuel Bar3 On the Rationality and Optimality of Transportation Networks Defense: A Network Centrality Approach 35Yaniv Altshuler, Rami Puzis, Yuval Elovici, Shlomo Bekhor, and Alex (Sandy) Pentland4 Adaptive Resilience and Critical Infrastructure Security: Emergent Challenges for Transportation and Cyberphysical Infrastructure 65Corri Zoli and Laura J. Steinberg5 Travelers’ Perceptions of Security for Long‐Distance Travel: An Exploratory Italian Study 91Eva Valeri, Amanda Stathopoulos, and Edoardo Marcucci6 Securing Transportation Systems from Radiological Threats 109Eric P. Rubenstein, Gordon A. Drukier, and Peter Zimmerman7 Protecting Transportation Infrastructure against Radiological Threat 129Ilan Yaar, Itzhak Halevy, Zvi Berenstein, and Avi SharonSection II Security Consideration for Modes of Transportation 1498 Securing Public Transit Systems 151Martin Wachs, Camille N.Y. Fink, Anastasia Loukaitou‐Sideris, and Brian D. Taylor9 Railroad Infrastructure: Protecting an Increasingly Vulnerable Asset 177Jeremy F. Plant and Richard R. Young10 Freight Railroad Security: A Case Study of Post‐9/11 Effectiveness 189Roland D. Pandolfi, Jr.11 Cost‐Effective Airport Security Policy 205Robert W. Poole, Jr.12 Seaport Operations and Security 233Willard Price and Ali Hashemi13 Pathologies of Privatization in the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program 257Benjamin Inman and John C. Morris14 Traveler’s Security Perceptions and Port Choices 271Amalia Polydoropoulou and Athena Tsirimpa15 Pipeline Security 281Luca Talarico, Kenneth Sörensen, Genserik Reniers, and Johan SpringaelSection III The Role of Transportation in Evacuation 31316 Evacuation from Disaster Zones: Lessons from recent disasters in Australia and Japan 315Daniel Baldwin Hess and Christina M. Farrell17 Evacuation Planning and Preparedness in the Aftermath of Katrina, Rita, Irene, and Sandy: Lessons Learned 345David S. Heller18 Rural Evacuation and Public Transportation 363Jaydeep Chaudhari, Zhirui Ye, and Dhrumil PatelIndex 377