Terrorist attacks on public bus transportation: A preliminary empirical analysis
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2010
Subject Area
infrastructure - stop, mode - bus, place - asia, place - europe, planning - personal safety/crime, planning - terrorism
Keywords
terrorist attacks, public bus transportation, targets, lethality, distribution
Abstract
This report provides data on terrorist attacks against public bus transportation targets and serious crimes committed against such targets throughout the world. The data are drawn from the MTI database of attacks on public surface transportation, which is expanded and updated as information becomes available. This analysis is based on the database as of December 17, 2009. Data include the frequency and lethality with which buses, bus stations, and bus stops are attacked; the relationship between fatalities and attacks against bus targets and the relationship between injuries and attacks against those targets; how often, relative to other surface transportation targets, buses are attacked, first with all weapons and then with only explosive and incendiary devices; the relative lethality of attacks; and the distribution of attacks. It then presents some preliminary observations drawn from those data that can help stakeholders governments, transit managers, and employees to focus on the ways the most frequent and/or most lethal attacks are carried out as they consider measures to prevent or mitigate attacks that may be considered likely to happen in the United States.
Rights
Permission to publish the abstract given by MTI, copyright remains with them
Recommended Citation
Jenkins, B.M., Butterworth, B.R., & Shrum, K.S. (2010). Terrorist Attacks On Public Bus Transportation: A Preliminary Empirical Analysis. MTI Report WP 09-01 published by Mineta Transportation Institute.
