Railway Infrastructure Security (Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality)

This comprehensive monograph addresses crucial issues in the protection of railway systems, with the objective of enhancing the understanding of railway infrastructure security. Based on analyses by academics, technology providers and railway operators, it explains how to assess terrorist and criminal threats, design countermeasures, and implement effective security strategies. In so doing, it draws upon a range of experiences from different countries in Europe and beyond. The book is the first to be devoted entirely to this subject. It will serve as a timely reminder of the attractiveness of the railway infrastructure system as a target for criminals and terrorists and, more importantly, as a valuable resource for stakeholders and professionals in the railway security field aiming to develop effective security based on a mix of methodological, technological and organizational tools. Besides researchers and decision makers in the field, the book will appeal to students interested in critical infrastructure protection.  

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.