Proximity Analysis of Vulnerable Facilities to Infrastructure Facilities Using Density Estimation: California Facilities

Public and private decision-makers continue to seek risk-based approaches to allocating funds to secure facilities that are potentially vulnerable to terrorist attacks. An important input into decisions about allocating funds for security is the density of critical infrastructure around facilities that could be potential targets of an attack. A terrorist attack on a vulnerable facility located in the vicinity of a critical infrastructure system could disable that system, thus have cascading impacts on other infrastructure systems, and ultimately on the economy.