by Ryan Fries
Transportation Infrastructure Security Utilizing Intelligent Transportation Systems provides a comprehensive treatment of techniques to leverage ITS in support of security and safety for surface transportation infrastructure.
Transportation Infrastructure Security Utilizing Intelligent Transportation Systems includes:
- Current ITS approaches to security issues such as freight security, disaster and evacuation response, HAZMAT incidents, rail security, and ITS Wide Area Alerts
- Guidance on the development of a regional transportation security plan
- Securing ITS itself and privacy issues involved in any collection and use of personally identifiable tracking data
- Exercises, question-and-answer sections, and other helpful review tools for the reader
Contents
1. Need for Surface Transportation Infrastructure Security
- Vulnerabilities
- Common Characteristics of Surface Transportation Systems
- Common Threats to Surface Transportation Systems
- Defending against Threats Both External and Internal
- Why Transportation Infrastructure Security Is Important
2. Leveraging ITS to Reduce Risk and Exposure Using ITS Security Areas
- Disaster Response and Evacuation
- Freight and Commercial Vehicle Security
- HAZMAT Security
- ITS Wide Area Alert
- Rail Security
- Transit Security
- Transportation Infrastructure Security
- Traveler Security
3. Risk Assessment Framework
- Risk Assessment Framework
- Opportunities and Challenges
- Application of the Framework
4. Application of Risk Assessment and Management Tools
- Application of Risk Assessment Methods
- Application of Evacuation Models and Traffic Models for Response Planning
- Application of Other Methods
5. Fundamentals of Computer Network Security for ITS
- Elements of Computer Network Security
- Importance of Computer Network Security
- Approach to Computer Network Security
- Computer Network Security in ITS
- Network Security Objectives
- Future of Network Security and Its Impacts on Securing ITS Network
6. Securing ITS
- Security Objectives
- Security Threats
- Security Services
- Securing ITS Subsystems
- Securing Communications between Subsystems
- Security and ITS Standards
7. ITS Security Areas and Multimodal Transportation Security
- Protecting People
- Protecting Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Protecting Freight
8. Process for Developing A Regional Transportation Security Plan
- Developing a Regional Transportation Security Architecture
- Developing a Project Security Plan
9. Issues and Opportunities for Transportation Infrastructure Security
- ITS Security versus Privacy
- Public and Private Roles
- Stakeholder Cooperation and Coordination Requirements
- Funding Sources and Constraints
- Human Resources
- Future Directions and Opportunities
Index
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