Security in Rail - Sea interfaces: a planning approach

Security in rail-sea interfaces is an area of huge importance in maintaining the flow of global freight traffic and preventing a damaging terrorist attack. This article focuses on the need of guaranteeing security by developing a holistic approach for integrated transport systems, which goes beyond safeguarding the individual modes and includes intermodal terminals. It analyses the incomplete international regulation on intermodal transport interfaces and assesses potential threats to security development and management. It provides some recommendations for more efficient processes, aimed at reducing potential security deficiencies in intermodal transport nodes by pre-venting them with a functional interfaces planning