Cartography and Security. Port Security: Trends and Perspectives

Safety and security represent central elements of policies at local, national and international levels. They are recalled particularly to-date in light of issues related to major threats as terrorism and, recently health-related events as global pandemics and epidemics. These two concepts are particularly relevant and become central in choices dealing with social and economical aspects. With a particular focus on Geographical Information Technologies and the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), the paper hereby presented focuses on cartographic and geographic aspects on security, particularly related to the port areas and to the relations these have with the rest of the transport systems and cities with which, at least in more mature economies, they share spaces and issues. Starting from more general considerations that links cartography and security, in the present work we examine the topic by means of recent research projects dealing with the Port of Trieste and the perspectives related to security.