Transportation Disaster Response
Opis
After noting that the distinction between an accident and disaster is subjective, Levinson, a retired Israeli policeman, and Granot (Bar Ilan U., Ramat Gan) draw lessons from numerous past and recent international examples of transportation disasters of all types about general, technical, management, and response issues. An addendum on the terrorist-caused disaster of September 11, 2001 concedes that while this text does not specifically treat an event of this magnitude, sound planning should be sufficiently flexible for responders even to deal with the previously unthinkable. Includes color photos.