Development of Risk Assessment Specifications for Analysing Terrorist Attacks Vulnerability on Metro and Light Rail Systems

With terrorist security of critical assets becoming a vital aspect of railway systems, this paper reviews the existing international policy frameworks and also risk assessment methodologies. This information fed into development of a risk assessment methodology (RAMPART Methodology) specifically add...

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Published inTransportation research procedia (Online) Vol. 14; pp. 1345 - 1354
Main Authors Matsika, Emmanuel, O’Neill, Conor, Battista, Umberto, Khosravi, Mony, Laporte, Antonio de Santiago, Munoz, Eduardo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 2016
Subjects
countermeasures
critical infrastructure (CI)
mass transit
Risk assessment
terrorist attack
critical infrastructure (CI)
terrorist attack
mass transit
Risk assessment
countermeasures
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Summary:With terrorist security of critical assets becoming a vital aspect of railway systems, this paper reviews the existing international policy frameworks and also risk assessment methodologies. This information fed into development of a risk assessment methodology (RAMPART Methodology) specifically addressing metro and light rail systems (mass transit). The uniqueness lies in differentiating itself using the following nine factors and parameters: qualitative vs quantitative approach; detail (depth of data/information levels disaggregation); scope (e.g. what threats/assets/sector covered?); what is target user group (legislators, management, technocrats, etc); definition of asset criticality; degree of subjectivity in whole RA process; is resilience (countermeasures) included?; are interdependences included; and common taxonomy/terminology.
ISSN:2352-1465
2352-1465
DOI:10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.207