Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Reader

6Transportation Renewed

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• 6.1 Transitioning a Vast and Complex Sector
  • 6.1.1 Government Leads the Way
  • 6.1.2 Safety and Security
• 6.2 Roads at TOC Risk
  • 6.2.1 The Road to Prosperity
  • 6.2.2 Economic Impact
  • 6.2.3 The National Highway System (NHS)
  • 6.2.4 The Interstate Highway Network is Resilient
  • 6.2.5 The NHS is Safer
  • 6.2.6 The Future is Electric
• 6.3 Rail and Railroads
  • 6.3.1 Birth of Regulation
  • 6.3.2 Freight Trains
  • 6.3.3 Passenger Rail
  • 6.3.4 Terrorist Target Passenger Trains
  • 6.3.5 Economics of Rail
• 6.4 Air Transportation
  • 6.4.1 Resilience of the Hub‐and‐Spoke Network
  • 6.4.2 Security of Commercial Air Travel
  • 6.4.3 How Safe and Secure is Flying in the United States?
  • 6.4.4 Drones
  • 6.4.5 eVTOLs
  • 6.4.6 Commercial Airline Impact on Global Warming
• 6.5 Discussion
• References

6.1 Transitioning a Vast and Complex Sector

The transportation Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) consists of highways, bridges, tunnels, traffic control systems; trucks, buses, and other commercial vehicles; railroads, rail rolling stock, rail yards, rail Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and signaling systems, rail bridges, and tunnels; oil and gas pipelines safety; intermodal facilities such as seaports, intracoastal ports and waterways, marine terminals, marine vessels, containers, barges, locks, and dams; air carrier airports, general aviation airports, air navigation and traffic control systems, airfreight and package express systems, passenger and cargo aircraft; ...