Key characteristics of transportation systems

1. Describe three of the five key characteristics of transportation systems described on pages 74-75 of your text that have an impact on security measures. Compare these characteristics between the United States’ intercity passenger rail transportation network and the United States’ interstate highway network. (5pts)

2. Describe two specific vulnerabilities of the United States’ roads and bridges. Provide specific examples of these vulnerabilities. You can describe vulnerabilities mentioned in ASCE infrastructure vulnerability assessment on pages 95-96 of the text or pick other vulnerabilities to describe. (5pts)

3. Based on the transportation system topology and traffic flow data provided below, assess and rank the security threat to each node, and each link on the network. You need to provide screenshots (insert them below this question) for 5 tables used for the analysis. Please refer to slide 24-31 for examples. (5pts)

4. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) oversees a number of security related administrations other than the TSA that protect our nation’s transportation system. Provide a one-page description of one of these other agencies. Describe their purpose, the size of the organization, and an example of one security threat the administration is designed to address. (5pts)

 

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used around the world. It had been announce recently that Internet address are to allow non Latin character as addresses, this means in future, Chinese character forming the web address is highly possible [Choe, 30 Oct 2009]. While the impact of this is still uncertain, but company that market target country using non-Latin character as language like China and Japan will definitely need to adapt to this change.

4.0 Industrial Analysis

4.1 Threat of new entrants

The airline industry require a huge capital investment, with at least millions of capital required before any business process, it is estimate that the company require approximately $1 of capital to generate $1 of revenue. It would require a lot of logistic works, highly skilled personal such as pilots, aircraft technicians and specialise managerial personnel which are often limited in resources in the industry. Limited access to airport and route are also another difficulty post to new entrant [Calingo. 1997]

As the Asia Pacific region move toward free trade and deregulation of airspace, more opportunity are created. Since introduce by America Southwest Airlines in 1973, Low Cost Carrier (LCC) have gain popularity and proven to be profitable [Uherek, 2006]. Many new companies had been form to provide this service around the Asian region around 1990s, currently Asia region have over 60 of such LCC mainly offering short distance flight within same country. Some of these airlines have started to offer long haul budget airline, for example Air Asia had introduce Air Asia X in 2007 that offer flight from Malaysia to London, Australia and India [Kent, 5th Jan 2007]. Although these Low Cost Carrier (LCC) were not yet considered as a direct competition to SIA as the target market for these airlines is more for cost conscious traveller, it is possible that in not so distance future, these

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