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Risk Assessment and Security for Pipelines, Tunnels, and Underground Rail and Transit Operations
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Risk Assessment and Security for Pipelines, Tunnels, and Underground Rail and Transit Operations

by Anna M. Doro-on
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
414 pages
14h 2m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Risk Assessment and Security for Pipelines, Tunnels, and Underground Rail and Transit Operations
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Chapter 3
Introduction to
Pipelines, Tunnels,
Underground Rail and
Transit Operations,
Terrorism, and Disasters
3.1 Introduction
is chapter provides fundamental engineering concepts of pipelines, tunnels, rail-
ways, underground freight transportation by capsule through pipelines, and other
transit systems. Hazards and threats of terror attacks will be described in this chap-
ter to identify some of the key areas and situations that should be considered for
security and defense. ere has been no ample data related to the magnitude of
terrorism against pipelines, rails, and tunnels in the past and people tend to over-
look the vulnerability of the ...
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ISBN: 9781466569324