15 Meters/11 Seconds

Some past terrorist attacks have illustrated that in the final moments before the attack happened, some people recognised the attacker and reacted, while others simply ignored them. Modelling these events requires an analysis recognising how ‘some people with high situational awareness will be influ...

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Published inJournal of information warfare Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 22 - 37
Main Authors Flaherty, Chris, Green, Anthony R
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Yorktown School of Computer and Security Science, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia 01.10.2011
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Archetypes
Armed forces
Automobile safety
Blasts
Bombings
Deception
Electronic warfare
Evacuation
Explosives
Information warfare
International law
Measuring instruments
Modeling
Modelling
Panic
Public spaces
R&D
Railway stations
Railways
Research & development
Situational awareness
Suicide
Suicide bombers
Suicide bombings
Suicides & suicide attempts
Terrorism
Terrorists
Time
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Summary:Some past terrorist attacks have illustrated that in the final moments before the attack happened, some people recognised the attacker and reacted, while others simply ignored them. Modelling these events requires an analysis recognising how ‘some people with high situational awareness will be influenced by other people’, and that some people (the terrorist attacker) are sufficiently adept at creating deception, outwitting perception, or vice versa. These two features underpin the key moments prior to a terrorist attack. Modelling this in the context of a terrorist attack requires a new form of granular analysis. This is called the ’15 meters/11 seconds’ model, and is the title of the research project modelled in this paper. It is a terrorist attack scenario examined as a time/action study of the immediate minutes and seconds leading up to a terrorist attack (as well as including the following events). Out of this analysis, ground rules are established for modelling an approach to the problem, in order to better develop possible evacuation strategies in public places, such as rail stations.
Bibliography:Journal of Information Warfare, v.10, no.2, Oct 2011: 22-37
ISSN:1445-3312
1445-3347