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摘要

We think of risk in many ways. Among the most common definitions in teaching transportation security classes is, "Risk is the accumulated trade off between the criticality of a disruption and its probability of occurrence." If a disruption is insignificant, then it matters little, even if its occurrence is highly likely to occur. An example might be the seemingly daily rain showers in Florida every afternoon. rnIf a disruption would be significant but its likelihood of occurrence is impossible, such as a 15,000 rnTEU sized cargo vessel sinking in the Panama Canal, then there is no risk. (These mammoth ships are too big to go through the Panama Canal, at least until the canal is expanded).