Risk assessment and security for pipelines, tunnels, and underground rail and transit operations

• Main Author: Doro-on, Anna Maricel, 1977- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2014]
• Subjects: doprava; potrubní doprava; metro; kolejová doprava; tunely; bezpečnostní management > Spojené státy americké; rizikový management > Spojené státy americké; riziko; dopravní bezpečnost > Spojené státy americké; dopravní infrastruktura > Spojené státy americké; transportation; pipeline conveying; subway; rail transport; tunnels; safety management > United States; risk management > United States; risk; traffic safety > United States; transport infrastructure > United States; příručky; handbooks and manuals
• ISBN: 9781466569324
• Physical Description: xxiv, 390 stran : ilustrace ; 25 cm

"This volume presents an integrated quantitative risk assessment methodology systematically analyzing alternatives for protecting underground rail, oil and gas pipelines, pipeline freight transportation, and other tunnel systems from threats of terrorism and other disasters. The book analyzes engineering, environmental, and economic impacts and addresses both direct and collateral damages. The book also presents regulations, standard processes, and risk assessment models recommended by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other governmental and state agencies"--Resumé vydavatele