Trade-offs between security and inspection capacity policy options for land border ports of entry

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1942, 2006, Pages 16-22

  Villegas, Hilma ^a   Gurian, Patrick L ^b   Heyman, Josiah M ^b   Mata, Adrian ^c   Falcone, Robert ^d   Ostapowicz, Edward ^d   Wilrigs, Steven ^d   Petragnani, Michael ^d   Eisele, Eric ^d  

^a Civil Engineering Department   (United States)

^b Department of Sociology and Anthropology ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSPECTION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; VEHICLES;

INSPECTION CAPACITY; LAND BORDER PORTS; NATIONAL SECURITY REQUIREMENTS; VEHICLE COMPARTMENTS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749330718     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1942-03     Document Type: Article

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