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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 5
Quantitative Risk
Estimation Model for
Pipelines, Tunnels,
Underground Rapid Rail,
and Transit Systems
5.1 Introduction
is chapter demonstrates quantitative risk estimation processes for terrorism and
disaster in oil and gas pipelines, tunnels, high-speed rail, and transit systems. One
of the main examples focuses on the freight pipeline system using magnetic levita-
tion (maglev) and linear electric induction motor for underground freight trans-
shipment in pipelines. Examples related to clandestine tunnels for illegal manpower
mobilization and fabrication of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) are included
in the analysis. e idea of ...
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ISBN: 9781466569324