The Transportation Implications of a Terrorist Attack on Seattle’s Highway Network

Economically Targeted Terrorism: A Review of the Literature and a Framework for Considering Defensive Approaches

“…Santos and Haimes' (2004) sophisticated input/output framework uses the full 483 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) industries and the interconnections among them to examine the economic effects that reductions in demand in specific sectors can have on the economy as a whole. Increasingly sophisticated models of economic activities and specific infrastructure systems are also rapidly improving the ability to assess the costs of attacks on transportation (Haimes, undated;Bae, Blain, and Bassok, 2005), electrical power (Chang, McDaniels, and Reed, 2005;Lave et al, 2004;Rose, Oladosu, and Liao, 2005;ICIS, 2005;Amin and Gellings, 2005), shipping Park et al, 2006), and tourism . 15 A study of the 2002 West Coast port labor dispute, which shut down multiple major ports for 10 days, suggested that many calculations of the costs of major economic disruptions overestimate their impact on the national economy (Hall, 2004).…”

“…Examples of attack strategies capable of producing such cascading damage include targeting infrastructures on which a variety of interdependent economic activities relysuch as power grids 15 or transportation networks (Haimes, 2005;Bae, Blain, and Bassok, 2005) using infrastructure networks as conduits to spread the effects of an attack itself. Agricultural terrorism is a commonly cited example (Chalk, 2004) staging contamination attacks on the food (Cremin, 2001) or water distribution systems.…”

Managerialism and Terrorism Policy for the Urban Financial Industry

“…But while Gregory and Pred (2007) provide a trenchant analysis of the need for fundamental changes to national and international policy in order to alleviate the conditions that create terrorism as a viable means of political expression, there is little work on the social policy aspects within cities in response to 9/11 and the subsequent threat of terrorism. To be sure, there is a lot of work with clear urban policy implications, especially with regard to transportation planning (Bae, Blain, and Bassok 2005); business continuity (Czinkota, Knight, and Liesch 2004); and economic (Chernick 2005), political (Mollenkopf 2005), and social resiliencies (Foner 2005). However, the existing research posits an actual or hypothetical social problem deriving from terrorism as the starting point for conducting policy-relevant analyses.…”