Critical Infrastructure Disconnects
in Transportation and Logistics
Modeling the Economic, Sociological, and
Human Impacts
Outline
Objective
 Overview
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Systems Engineering (SE)
 Critical Infrastructure (CI)
 Transportation & Logistics (Trans/Log)
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Process
 Formulating the Model
 Benefits
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Outline
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Fusing Trans/Log Highways and
Vehicles (TLHV) with the CI
Identifying the Stakeholders
 Capturing the Requirements
 Performing Functional Analysis
 Assessing the TLHV’s Risk
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 What
are the Critical Assets
 What are the Vulnerabilities
 What are the Threats
Outline
Verifying and Validating the Model
 Demonstrating “What if Scenarios”
 Benefits
 Conclusion
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Objective
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To develop a model based on SE
methodologies and
practices to asses the
system impact of a
TLVH disconnect
Objective
Objective
Day
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Objective
SE Overview
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Various Definitions Exists
 State the problem; Investigate
alternatives; Model the system;
Integrate; Launch the system;
Assesses performance; and Reevaluate (SIMILAR). The systems
engineering process is not
sequential. The functions are
performed in a parallel and iterative
manner.1
SE Overview
System-of-Systems
 Interdependencies
 Elements of a System2
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Components
 Attributes
 Relationships
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SE Overview
Top-down/Bottom-up
Team
Approach
Life-cycle
Identification
of System Requirements
CI Overview
President's Commission on Critical
Infrastructure Protection report called
for a national effort to assure the
security of the United States'
increasingly vulnerable and
interconnected infrastructures3
 Lead to the Presidential Decision
Directive 63 (PDD63)
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CI Overview
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There are 13 general CI defined by the
Department of Homeland Security
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6.
Agriculture
7. Food
Banking and Finance 8. Government
Chem. Ind. & Haz Mat 9. Info. and Telecom.
Defense Industrial Base10.Postal and Shipping
Emergency Services
11.Public Health
Energy
12.Transportation
13.Water
CI Overview
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Others include:
SPAWAR – 10 with subsets
 InfraGard of North Texas – 9
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CI could also be specific to area
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Port of Houston
CI Overview
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Common property of CI
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All are complex collections of interacting
components in which change often occurs
as a result of learning process; that is,
they are complex adaptive systems (CAS)4
Trans/Log Overview
Transportation is one of the
most important and increasingly
complex infrastructure networks
of our modern society5
Trans/Log Overview
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Transportation
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A facility consisting of the means and
equipment necessary for the movement of
passengers or goods5
Trans/Log Overview
Logistics
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That part of the supply chain process that
plans, implements, and controls the
efficient, effective forward and reverse
flow and storage of goods, services, and
related information between the point of
origin and the point of consumption in
order to meet customers' requirements6
Trans/Log Overview
Customer
Air
Mfg
Single Source
Information
Information
Consolidator
De-consolidator
Customs
Product/
Material
Ocean
Rail
Motor
Freight Fwd
Financial
Trans/Log Overview
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Gross Domestic Product: 20037
8.5%
91.5%
Trans/Log
All Other
Trans/Log Overview
Airports/Aircraft
 Highways/Vehicles
 Railroads/Trains
 Waterways/Vessels
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Trans/Log Overview
Airports/Aircraft
 Highways/Vehicles
 Railroads/Trains
 Waterways/Vessels
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Process
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Fuse Trans/Log Highways and Vehicles
(TLHV) with the CI
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Identify Stakeholders
Process
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Capture the Requirements
Functional
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Performance
Perform Functional Analysis
Process
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Assess TLHV’s Risk8
Process
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Formulating the Model
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Economic Impact
Process
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Sociological Impact
Process
Rs(t) Analysis
 FMECA
 Monte Carlo Simulation
 Risk Analysis
 Paper
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Six Dimensions
 Temporal
 Geographical
Interdependencies
Footnotes
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Inaugural issue, Systems Engineering, Journal of the International Council of
Systems Engineering INCOSE, Seattle, WA (vol. 1, no. 1, July/September
1994).
Benjamin S. Blanchard, Logistics Engineering and Management, (Upper
Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004), p. 28.
The Whit House: Office of the Press Secretary, Fact Sheet, May 22, 1998.
[Online]. Available at http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd-63.htm.
Steven M. Rinaldi, James P. Peerenboom, and Terrence K. Kelly, Identifying,
Understanding, and Analyzing Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies,
(IEEE Control System Magazine, December 2001), p.13.
George Mason University, Systems Engineering Research and Operations.
Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University.
The Michigan Roundtables (Council of Logistics Management)
Perry A. Trunick, How to Beat the High Cost of Shipping, Logistics Today,
July, 2004.
NDIA Information Briefing. DoD Critical Infrastructure Protection, July 3,
2002.
Douglas M. Lambert and James R. Stock, Strategic Logistics Management,
(Homewood, IL: Irwin, Third Edition, 1993), pp. 281-294.
Process
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Fuse Trans/Log Highways and Vehicles
(TLHV) with the CI
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Identify Stakeholders
Functional
 Commuters
Performance
 Distribution
Centers
 Emergency Responders
 Utilities / Power Crews
 Airports
 Bus and Rail Stations
 Water Ports
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A. Axelrod and MD. Cohen, Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific
Frontier (NY: Free Press, 1999), pp.32-61