Business Excellence, Vol. 15 No. 2, 2021.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.22598/pi-be/2021.15.2.61
IMPACT OF TERRORISM ON SAFETY OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN EUROPE
Ante Vuletić
orcid.org/0000-0002-1431-6984
; Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Lucijan Horak
; Bolton Croatia Ltd.
Marija Jurčević
orcid.org/0000-0002-3473-7014
; Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Terrorism is a method for achieving certain political goals through violence,
criminal activities and endangerment of large social groups. The basic characteristic of
these activities are spreading fear and terror among the population. Terrorism has
become an every-day challenge on global level and the risk of terrorism as a form of
political risk is becoming more and more a part of system models for risk assessment.
Activities connected with terrorism have not skipped public transportation either. This
branch of transportation has been of special interest to those involved in terrorist
activities in the last decade. For the people who are planning such activities, public
transportation is an ideal target because there are millions of commuters who use public
transportation services every day and it is very challenging to keep all the segments
secure and equally protected. In public transportation, high level of protection can be
developed at obvious control points. For everyone involved, making all segments of
public transportation safe is a huge challenge, because all segments have to remain
available to users. Unlike airports, where there are control points set up, at bus and train
stops, there are no preconditions for providing high level of protection. To achieve the
goal of this paper, an analysis of the current studies on terrorist attacks was conducted,
along with the primary research. It is crucial to work on implementing safety measures
that can impede terrorist activities, and heighten the probability for the terrorists to be
uncovered and identified.
Keywords
public transport; terorism; effect; safety; European Union
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Publication date:
10.12.2021.
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