Impact of the 2001 World Trade Center attack on critical interdependent infrastructures

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-1-2004

Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of the 2001 World Trade Center attack on critical infrastructure systems in the New York City metropolitan area. Of particular interest are the physical or logical connections - also known as interdependencies - among these systems, and the results of disruptions associated with the attack on them. Prior research on infrastructure interdependence has concentrated on modeling the consequences of interdependencies among impacted infrastructure systems. This paper catalogues and analyzes reports of impacts to interdependent infrastructure systems associated with the 2001 World Trade Center attack. The results suggest that there were impacts to various types of interdependencies among nearly all critical infrastructure systems. Moreover, impacts continued to be reported throughout the one hundred day period following the attack. The paper concludes with a discussion of possible strategies for improving understanding of infrastructure interdependencies and for managing them during an emergency response. © 2004 IEEE.

Identifier

15744388070 (Scopus)

ISBN

[0780385667]

Publication Title

Conference Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1401165

ISSN

1062922X

First Page

4053

Last Page

4058

Volume

5

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