Railway Transportation

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Efficient railway transportation helps ensure both population mobility and a functioning supply chain, but railway reliability is often threatened by inadequate capacity, aging infrastructure, increasing freight costs, and potential security threats. RAND researchers have explored and recommended different approaches to modernizing rail systems and keeping them safe.

Research conducted by: RAND Justice, Infrastructure, and Environment; RAND Europe

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Can Publicly Available Information Be Used in Planning Terrorist Attacks? — Aug 1, 2007

This fact sheet describes a framework for assessing the availability of publicly available information for planning attacks on the U.S. air, rail, and sea transportation infrastructure and the results of applying the framework in a red-team exercise.

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