Freedom and Information: Assessing Publicly Available Data Regarding U.S. Transportation Infrastructure Security

This report addresses the feasibility of terrorists acquiring information, from publicly available sources, that would help them plan attacks on transportation infrastructure - particularly air transportation, railroads and water transportation. The goal of the study was to ascertain how much information about United States defense, counterterrorism and anti-terrorism systems is available publicly. The investigation targeted the information that could be easily obtainable through libraries and Web searches. Six different hypothetical terrorist attack scenarios were examined. A framework was developed to compare the extent of information publicly available, across scenarios and targeted infrastructure.

• Record URL:
  http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2007/RAND_TR360.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  RAND Corporation

  1776 Main Street, P.O. Box 2138
  Santa Monica, CA  United States  90407-2138
• Authors:
  • Landree, Eric
  • Paul, Christopher
  • Grill, Beth
  • Balakrishnan, Aruna
  • Wilson, Bradley
  • Libicki, Martin C
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Technical Report
• Features: Appendices; Bibliography; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 112p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air transportation; Data protection; Defense; Forecasting; Information management; Information systems; Infrastructure; Internet; Libraries; National security; Planning; Railroads; Security; Terrorism; Water transportation; Websites (Information retrieval)
• Candidate Terms: Web search engines
• Uncontrolled Terms: Counterterrorism; Data availability; Freedom; Information access; Information security; Intelligence information; Publicly accessible information; Terrorist incidents
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Aviation; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01055897
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 24 2007 11:16AM