Public Transportation Security

Public Transportation Security

Introduction

Modern terrorism became metropolitan community transportation in a threat for the attack. In several terrorist actions all over the world they targeted the transport system. One of the examples of this is the Parisian underground rail that was the target of terrorist action. It was an action by the Algerian extremists during 1995 to 1996; as it was a long campaign next to the English establishment, targeting the passenger trains in addition to the London underground this was an action by the Irish Republican Army; similarly the terrorists of Palestinian made use of suicidal gents in order to blew their selves in buses and public transports in Israel. The whole thing was continued as in Tokyo, the associates of AUM attacked the train which was underground with a deadly gas in the year of 1995, and cases can continue. The attack 9/11 on the World Trade Center with the Pentagon demonstrated the huge political, economic as well as social impact; they might have under definite situation, and also indicated the vehicles role as a tool of such terrorist attacks.

More up to date is the attack of March, 2004 that occurred at the terminals of railway in Madrid, as well the vast number of sufferers, commuters injured or killed, had a vast political and social impact manipulating the elections of parliament in Spania, all that were happening the subsequent days, moreover causing a a change of policies of the Spanish government in the armed movement in Irk. In the mid of 2005, four suicidal attacks in the transportation network of general public in the Great Brittan 56 people killed.

Transit Networks Characteristics to Make Them Susceptible to Attacks

Terrorists who are intended to take lives of people indiscriminately; the public transportation may be a target that is ideal. Several attacks on public transportation that is the system of traffic system in the metropolitan areas which causes huge panicky and damages consequently meeting the conventional necessities of terrorism. In accordance with the transit system experts and officials in safety system, definite distinctiveness of the public transportation formulates it vulnerable to such terrorist attacks also more complicated to shelter. All these structures are intended to function openly, with a lot of control free right of entry points, with the intention that a great number of public could travel easily and quickly. Its open nature make control and supervision of the public ...