POSSIBLE APPROACH TO PROTECTION OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENT IN TRANSPORT SECTOR

Abstract

Transportation infrastructure belongs between the most important economic elements of every government. It provides exchange of goods and services, participating by considerable degree on generation of GDP. Every disruption of transportation infrastructure causes financial losses. It paralyses the economy on local, regional or national and transnational level. Road bridges belong to the important elements of transportation infrastructure. Those belonging to highway network or European road network are of especially significant importance. Every damage or disruption of such element results in partial distortion of goods exchange system (truck transport), which damages the economic interests and relations on individual levels of government administration. Possible solution for prevention of, particularly, deliberate attacks on these elements, is their protection. This article contains the proposal of possible approach to protection of road bridge as an element of critical transportation. The approach featured in it is applied to model referential object (protected object) and therefore the data which are used in the proposal have only the illustrational character.