1. Žilinská univerzita v Žiline Fakulta špeciálneho inžinierstva
Identification of Potential Critical Land Transport Infrastructure Elements
Ing. Mária Lusková, PhD.

2. Transport Policy of the Slovak Republic until 2015
Transport - one of the key factors of each modern society development.
Priority 6.2 Security protection in transport
- the aim of protection of transport infrastructure and vehicles is to ensure that staff, facilities, transport equipment and information systems that are critical for functioning the society, do not stop to fulfil their functions under any scenarios risks and threats.

3. Critical Transport Infrastructure
Should include only those systems in transport whose failure, disruption or destruction would have a severe impact on the security of the state, economic function, health and safety of the population, function of public administration, on which depend other sectors.
Council Directive 2008/114/EC“ establishes the procedure for the identification and designation of the European Critical Infrastructures and the assessment of the need to improve their protection.

4. Transport Sector In the Slovak Republic Critical Infrastructure
Act No. 45/2011 Coll. of 8th February 2011 about critical infrastructure (CI) - competencies and responsibilities of the central bodies of state administration of the SR.
CI in transportation sector in the SR comprises road, railway, aviation and water transport.
The paper is dealing only with identification of critical infrastructure elements of land transport, i.e. road and railway transport.

5. Theoretical Frame for Identification of potential CI Elements in Transport
Critical infrastructure element - meet at least one of these specific criteria:
It is probable, that the element can be a target of a terrorist attack, or it may be threatened by other risk factors, e.g. extreme weather elements.
Risk is unacceptable.
The element is special, it cannot be replaced or renewed.
The effect is so generalized that it is not possible to assume which of the elements with the same function will be affected.
Element appeals as exclusive.

6. Methodology for identification of potential critical infrastructure elements
Absence of a complex model on the basis of which it would be possible to identify and assess the criticality of particular elements of transport infrastructure.
General methodology of assessment of critical infrastructure elements was created.
Methodology is based on the existing national and European legislation.

7. Methodology for identification of potential critical infrastructure elements
Select transport subsector - road and rail transport
Analysis of objects, defining typological elements, defining potential threats
Defining sectoral criteria and their limits, objects assesment based on these criteria
Defininng cross-cutting criteria and their limits, objects assesment based on these criteria
Evaluation of the sectoral criteria sum and fulfilment at least one cross- cutting criteria
List of potential CI elements

8. Sectoral criteria Traffic Density Intensity Traffic peak Light traffic
Night traffic
Capacity
Construction size
Financial demandingness
Time demandingness
Recovery demandingness
Material value of object
Economic impact
Alternate route costs
Financial costs
Damage to natural environment costs
Object uniqueness
Terrorist attack probability
Impact
Impact on society
Impact on property
Impact on natural environment
Emergency event probability
Probability of occurence
Impact on natural environmnet

9. Sectoral criteria
Based on the point evaluation of partial criteria it is possible to assess the value of criterion that specifies the potential critical infrastructure elements in road and railway transport.
K = K1+K2+K3+K4+K5+K6+K7+K8

10. Cross-cutting criteria
Cross-cutting criteria state the conditions under which individual elements of infrastructure overlapping individual infrastructure sectors are identified as the critical infrastructure elements.
The threshold values of the cross-cutting criteria are determined separately by each Member State.
The real threshold values are generally confidential.
Within our methodology we have proposed our own scientifically justified threshold values.

11. Cross-cutting criteria
casualties
number of fatalities
number of injuries
economic effects
severity of losses
degradation of products or services
impact on public
confidence of citizens
physical disruption
disruption of daily life

12. Conclusion
The element can be considered as potential critical infrastructure element in case it reaches minimum required sum value of sectoral criteria and at the same time at least one cross-cutting criterion.
Authors of these paper present results of their own research work within the FP7 project RAIN in order to develop discussion in international level.

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