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The Chosen Sector is Transportation and subsector is Aviation.
APA format is required; minimum 5 references.
Note: There are 2 parts to this assignment.
Part 1
You have depicted a specific network from within your sector graphically and presented your depiction to your classmates and instructor. This week, you will explore in depth the nodes, assets, and links within your selected network.
In 2 pages, deliver a preliminary view of the assets, nodes, and links in your network. Be concise, yet comprehensive.
The following elements should be included in the paper:
Describe each node, asset, and link in the network. If these are too numerous, you may elect to describe types of assets and links.
Using the Lower Colorado Dams as an example, it is important to realize that dams can produce hydroelectric power; serve as storage sites by creating a reservoir for drinking, irrigation, and recreation; or primarily provide diversion by directing water for other uses. Some dams may also serve all of these functions.
Consider and describe the threats that might impact each node or type of node.
Links may be critical too, but absorb these in considering threats to your nodes. For example, if a road links 2 power production facilities, and its impassibility in the winter means employees do not make it to work, you should simply cast this threat in terms of how it impacts the node. In other words, there is a threat of employees not reporting to work because of the remoteness of facility and routinely impassable roads.
Every node should have multiple potential threats, and these should be realistic and fully described.
Do not choose obscure or extremely unlikely threats, or you will find that infinite possibilities exist.
You must use professional and governmental sources to help identify realistic threats.
Consider and list the potential consequences each of these threats might produce.
Produce a 2-page report using your own design for its format and style, but ensure it is well-organized, clearly delivered, mechanically sound, and comprehensive in content.
If you mention sources or deliver content that is in any way derived from material or ideas that are not your own original thoughts, include proper citations.
If you produce a well-considered report for this assignment, the risk assessment you produce later in the term will be partially complete.
In considering threats and consequences, you should think critically, not superficially. For example, in the Lower Colorado Dams example, a threat to a water reservoir could be climate change, which as a consequence might lead to evaporation. But climate change may produce drought as well, which as a consequence can result in overconsumption of reservoir waters. This could threaten its availability or fair distribution for drinking, agriculture, and power production, which would impact at least 3 separate sectors. The Lower Colorado Dams illustration reveals that different dams and reservoirs impact various communities and numbers of populations in different ways. Therefore, potential consequences will vary. Consider a reservoir that serves mostly as a recreation site, versus one that provides drinking water to Las Vegas, Nevada.
Part 2
Choose a hypothetical or real-world leader who you seek to educate on your selected sector and network. You will write an executive summary in which you seek to both inform and influence this leader, explain what network theory is, and discuss how its use will be beneficial to the community, agency, or company for identifying risks and vulnerabilities, and for ultimately assisting this entity in developing mitigation strategies.
In the executive summary, be sure to complete the following:
You should demonstrate a clear understanding of what network theory is and what its benefits are.
You should clearly, comprehensively, and concisely explain the concept in your own words.
You should make connections as to how it can aid community, agency, or company leaders in prioritizing limited resources, surfacing mitigation requirements, and compelling creative solutions.
In making these connections, use real-world elements of your selected sector or network and employ realistic conditions and opportunities.
It should be organized, clearly delivered, mechanically sound, and comprehensive in content.
You have limited space, so do not provide any wordy, repetitive, or irrelevant filler material.
If you mention sources or deliver content that is in any way derived from material or ideas that are not your own original thoughts include proper citations.
Your executive summary can be no more than 3 pages long, 1.5- or double-spaced, 11- or 12-point font.
Assignment Objectives
Categorize the key sectors of critical infrastructure.
Outline the assets associated with each of the key sectors as well as how the sectors function and their regulatory structure.
Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: DESIGNING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Designing Critical Infrastructure
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Part 1
The Transportation Systems Sector comprises of seven key modes or subsectors. For the
purpose of this paper, I will focus on aviation. Aviation includes air traffic control systems,
heliports, airports, aircrafts, and landing strips. Likewise, the aviation mode includes recreational
and commercial aircrafts and a wide assortment of support services, for example, fueling
facilities, aircraft repair stations, flight schools, and navigation aids (Lewis, 2014).
An environment that is secure and safe is vital to any airplane terminal worldwide. Air
transport has turned out to be fundamental to our society. It is a driver of cultural, social, and
economic development worldwide and has completely changed how we interact with others,
travel, and work together (Belobaba, Odoni & Barnhart, 2015). It is hard to imagine a world
without aviation. Air terminals have turned out to be strong nodes for modes, goods, people, and
services.
As transport nodes, air terminals are increasingly endeavoring to be ultramodern
productive multimodal hubs serving a huge number of travelers on a daily basis (Duval, 2013).
They were once generally straightforward offices for air transport, but are progressively
transforming into activity centers and transport nodes. The better they are incorporated into the
regional and local transport networks, the better they will perform at some of their main
functions: the distribution of people and goods.
Air terminals serve as departure, arrival, and transfer nodes. Be that as it may, they face
an entire range of safety and security challenges, and thus include a large number of people at
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each stage. Internationalization and globalization have transformed air terminals into targets of
terrorist attacks and other ecocatastrophes (Lewis, 2014).
As economic nodes, air terminals are significant generators of employment and are hence
critical contributors of a city's regional or local economy. Air terminal related employment more
often than not develops relatively to passenger movement. Research has shown that when
general profitability is down in a region, the terminals are much more crucial as creators and
generators of employment, particularly in medium to low professions (Belobaba, Odoni &
Barnhart, 2015). Be that as it may, once terror attacks or natural disasters begin threatening the
airport’s safety and security, people are less likely to seek for jobs there. This may eventually
have an effect on the country’s economy as more and more people continue being jobless.
Additionally, the number one threat facing a community airport is the theft. Theft can
range from equipment to fuel. Sources of threats can be internal, domestic or foreign. Currently,
theft and/or hijacking of a small aircraft are one of the major concerns to pilots, operators, and
owners. These types of threats bring about serious financial losses and genuine risk to
employees. Depending on the intention of the hijacker or thief, these sorts of thefts also present a
risk to the surrounding communities and population in general (Kellerman, 2008).
As nodes for urban development and growth, airplane terminals not only draw in
businesses and activities profiting from being near the airport but also create activities related to
aviation. A well-positioned and well-functioning airport isn't just a significant resource for a city,
but its financial advantages can spread all over the area. However, airports confront ecological
constraints of air pollution and noise, and must, therefore, plan their location and growth
accordingly (Belobaba, Odoni & Barnhart, 2015).
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Rapid and efficient linkage to the city is essential, particularly for air terminals which are
situated in the remote areas. Accomplishing high modal splits of employees and passengers
utilizing public transport when heading out to the air terminal is a crucial goal of most major air
terminals (Lewis, 2014). For this reason, access by rail is significant to their prosperity, mainly
when the more established existing airport in the city center keeps on working in rivalry with the
better and brighter one.
Part 2 - Richard Anderson, CEO Delta Air Lines
As an active player in the airline industry, Delta Airlines could benefit greatly from
making slight adjustments to its current network systems and adopting a more complex systems
approach. Transport frameworks, alongside different infrastructures like communication
networks or power grids, are basic components of our economies and societies (Belobaba, Odoni
& Barnhart, 2015). They ensure the high state of mobility that we experience, and which is
crucial for the cohesion of business sectors and...
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