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 t...