Abstract

Ports are important nodal points that stimulate the US economy. This is particularly true of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach (POLA/LB). Over 40% of all containers shipped to and out of the US flow through this two-port complex. The POLA/LB along with other port complexes face many challenges - including maximizing operational efficiency while simultaneously minimizing risk from catastrophes, including terrorism and other man-made or natural disaster events and minimizing environmental impacts. Often these challenges are at odds with one another - increasing one often comes at the expense of achieving the other. The DHS-funded Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) is developing a port security risk management and resource allocation system (PortSec). PortSec will support both tactical day-to-day security decision-making and long-term strategic security planning …

Date

November 8, 2010

Authors

Michael D Orosz, Carl Southwell, Anthony Barrett, Jennifer Chen, Petros Ioannou, Afshin Abadi, Isaac Maya

Conference

2010 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST)

Pages

264-269

Publisher

IEEE