Primary Investigator:
Research Independant

Project Members
Kira Sun, Courtney Falk

According to the Association of American Railroads, freight rail accounts for 40% of freight in the US. And hazardous materials arrive safely more than 99% of the time. But the geographic scale of freight rail in the US, coupled with the need for many companies to interoperate, creates a large attack surface for adversaries. Our research is building a physical simulation of freight rail to model the cyber-physical risk and understand its impact. The final model will allow other researchers to interact with the cyber layer to test attacks.