Identification of critical locations across multiple infrastructures for terrorist actions

S.A. Patterson and G.E. Apostolakis

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2007, vol. 92, issue 9, 1183-1203

Abstract: This paper presents a possible approach to ranking geographic regions that can influence multiple infrastructures. Once ranked, decision makers can determine whether these regions are critical locations based on their susceptibility to terrorist acts. We identify these locations by calculating a value for a geographic region that represents the combined values to the decision makers of all the infrastructures crossing through that region. These values, as well as the size of the geographic region, are conditional on an assumed destructive threat of a given size. In our case study, the threat is assumed to be minor, e.g., a bomb that can affect objects within 7m of it.

Keywords: Infrastructures; Networks; Terrorism; Risk analysis; Decision analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.08.004

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