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ITS Department Article to appear in IEEE Intelligent Systems July/August 2007 issue
Protecting Transportation Infrastructure
Daniel Zeng, University of Arizona
Sudarshan S. Chawathe, University of Maine
FeiYue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Protecting transportation infrastructure is an important component of today’s homeland security effort.
This article highlights related technical challenges and provides a brief survey of several IT research
streams in this important application area, along with two case studies.
Keywords: Critical Infrastructure; Transportation Security
In the context of homeland security, critical infrastructures are “those physical and information technology
facilities, networks, services and assets which, if disrupted or destroyed, would have a serious impact on the
health, safety, security, or economic wellbeing of citizens or the effective functioning of governments.”1
Transportation infrastructures are a key component of a nation’s critical infrastructures, covering physical
assets such as airports, ports, and railway and mass transit networks as well as software systems such as
traffic control systems. In effect, among various critical infrastructures spanning a range of economic
sectors and government operations,2 transportation is widely viewed as one of the most significant and
impactful. A 2002 study concerning the significance of infrastructure components andand the consequences
of a destructive event rated transportation as “extremely significant.” Other components at this highest level
of significance were communications, power, emergency response personnel and assets, and national
security resources.3
Transportation infrastructures are frequent targets of terrorist attacks because of their significance in
several dimensions. Because physical transportation networks attract large numbers of people, the
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