Explosives and Incendiaries Used in Terrorist Attacks on Public Surface Transportation: A Preliminary Empirical Analysis, MTI Report WP 09-02

Authors

Brian M. Jenkins, NTSCOE
Bruce R. Butterworth

Description

This report provides data on terrorist attacks against public surface 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 February 20, 2010. Data include the frequency and lethality with which trains, buses, and road and highway targets are attacked; the relationship between fatalities and attacks against those targets; and the relationship between injuries and attacks against them. The report presents some preliminary observations drawn from the data that can help stakeholder governments, transit managers, and employee 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

Publication Date

3-1-2010

Publication Type

Report

Topic

Security and Counterterrorism

MTI Project

2875

Mineta Transportation Institute URL

https://transweb.sjsu.edu/research/Explosives-and-Incendiaries-Used-Terrorist-Attacks-Public-Surface-Transportation-Preliminary-Empirical-Analysis

Keywords

Public surface transportation; Terrorism; Explosives and incendiaries; Lethality

Disciplines

Transportation

Recommended Citation

Brian M. Jenkins and Bruce R. Butterworth. "Explosives and Incendiaries Used in Terrorist Attacks on Public Surface Transportation: A Preliminary Empirical Analysis, MTI Report WP 09-02" Mineta Transportation Institute (2010).