DEMASST

DEMASST is a roadmapping study funded under the EU FP7 Security Research Programme. Mass transportation systems with their very high densities of people are attractive targets for intentional malevolent acts as already evidenced by devastating attacks in EU Member States. They are public and easily accessible, the passengers often carry hand luggage where explosives or weapons can be hidden and there are many persons concentrated in an enclosed area. But in addition to their potential for very large human casualties, due to crime or accident, mass transportation systems are also a critical infrastructure for employees to get to their workplaces, meetings, etc. Even though disturbances to this function do not create danger of life and limb the economic consequences may be very large. DEMASST is the first phase of the FP7 demonstration programme for security in mass transportation with the task to provide a roadmap for the development and integration of system-of-systemsolutions.
By virtue of the similarity of problems across big cities in Europe such security solutions have a potentially very important EU-wide market.