Securing Integrated Transportation Networks

Gary Gordon is Senior Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Previously he held positions as a railroad engineering officer, U.S. Army transportation officer, U.S. Government transportation security director and transportation operations, infrastructure and security consultant. He is co-author, with Richard Young, of Railway Security: Protecting Against Manmade and Natural Disasters, on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Transportation Security and a member of the Society of American Military Engineers’ Resilience Community of Interest. His work has been published in The Military Engineer, Transportation Research Record of the Transportation Research Board, Journal of Emergency Management, and Encyclopedia of Security and Emergency Management. Richard Young is Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at Pennsylvania State University. Previously he held corporate supply chain management positions and was as consultant for a wide range of transportation and industrial firms. He is on the editorial boards of several supply chain journals, a Fulbright German Research Scholar, and received the Distinguished Educator Award of the National Defense Transportation Association. His work has been published in Journal of Transportation Security, Transportation Journal, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Logistics Management, and Journal of Emergency Management.

Section I – The evolution of transportation security
1. What is transportation security and why do we want to secure it?
2. Transportation security before and after 9/11
3. The regulatory environment and government agency roles 4. Who are the parties involved and what are their relationships
5. What are the components and economics of transportation security?

Section II – Exposure
6. Nature of people and the goods transported
7. Threats, vulnerabilities and risk
8. What is the difference between natural and manmade disasters
9. Assessing Risks
10. Cyber threats and risks

Section III – Transportation modes, interrelationships and supply chain resilience
11. Highway and motor carrier
12. Freight and passenger rail
13. Bus and rail transit
14. Maritime
15 – Aviation
16. Intermodal transportation
17. Pipeline

Section IV - What is being done about transportation security?
18. Regulatory compliance and partnered initiatives
19. Risk models and methods and industry best practices
20. Physical vs. operational security measures
21. Where do we go from here?