Overview
- Addresses crucial issues relating to railway infrastructure security
- Explains how to assess terrorist and criminal threats and design countermeasures
- Provides guidance on effective security strategies
- Based on analyses by academics, technology providers and railway operators
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (TSRQ, volume 27)
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About the editors
Roberto Setola is the head of the Complex System & Security Lab of the University CAMPUS Bio-Medico of Rome, Italy and the General Secretary of the AIIC (Italian Association of Critical Infrastructures’ Experts).
Antonio Sforza is full professor of Operational Research at University of Naples "Federico II”, Italy. His activity focuses on the context of continuous and discrete optimization models and methods, whose applications are mainly devoted to problems of urban traffic management, transportation planning, logistics and infrastructure protection.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Railway Infrastructure Security
Editors: Roberto Setola, Antonio Sforza, Valeria Vittorini, Concetta Pragliola
Series Title: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04426-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-04425-5Published: 08 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35693-8Published: 06 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04426-2Published: 26 March 2015
Series ISSN: 1566-0443
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0285
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 249
Number of Illustrations: 114 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Simulation and Modeling, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Security Science and Technology