This book addresses crucial issues in railway infrastructure security, showing how to assess terrorist and criminal threats, design countermeasures and implement effective security strategies. Draws on a range of experiences from European countries and beyond.

This proceedings volume highlights the state-of-the-art knowledge related to optimization, decisions science and problem solving methods, as well as their application in industrial and territorial systems. The chapter topics are applicable for researchers and practitioners working in these areas, but also for the operations research community.