Critical Infrastructure Analysis-Los Angeles

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This week’s assignment focuses on critical infrastructure in a city near you. The reason emergency
planners must be aware of critical infrastructure is that whenever a hazard affects critical infrastructure
there is a magnified effect on the population. Generally, if one infrastructure is affected there is a cascading
effect on other critical infrastructures. In this assignment, you will take the theoretical and demonstrate why
it is important to address critical infrastructure in all emergency plans. Each of the cities below have
multiple critical infrastructures. You will examine the critical infrastructure and graphically place it on a map
and include it in your analysis of the critical infrastructure for your chosen city.
Choose a city with which you are familiar. The city must have an electrical grid that can be accessed
through the U.S. Energy Information Administration: U.S. States (Links to an external site.) web page in
addition to several other critical infrastructures represented, such as water, sewage, highway, or rail.
You will analyze at least three critical infrastructure sectors (electrical substations, rail lines, and highway
transportation) in your chosen city that will allow you to see how these sectors fit together after consulting a
critical infrastructure sector map. Then, based on your analysis, you will write a report evaluating the impact
of a natural, technological, or terrorist initiated hazardous event in your chosen city.
Include the following elements in your paper:
For your maps,
Create a map of critical infrastructure from a state view.
Access the S. Energy Information Administration: U.S. States (Links to an external site.) web page. On the
map, select the state of your chosen city. Then use the zoom feature to identify the electrical sectors, rail
lines, and freeways in your state. Ensure you have the energy infrastructure view activated (Note the
“Layers/Legend” button in the upper left of your map). You may identify additional critical infrastructure or
facilities on your map, such as hospitals, airports or port facilities, rail yards, etc. Once you get the view you
seek, take a screen capture. (For assistance with screen capturing, you may wish to access the Take-AScreenshot (Links to an external site.) web page. Save your screen capture image and insert it into the
“Appendix” section of your report.
Create a map of critical infrastructure from a city view.
Now go through the same process to develop a city view. Once you see all of the icons, take a screen
capture of the layers/legend window. Insert this image onto a new page. Highlight critical facilities such as
hospitals, schools, rail yards, port facilities, water treatment plants, etc. You may wish to access the
provided Appendix sample download for guidance.
Save the images of the two maps and develop a legend for your map.
For your report, you will show the relationships between the infrastructure sectors in your chosen city. Your
goal is to analyze one critical juncture where multiple infrastructures come together in your city, not all
possibilities. Be sure to include all of the following elements:
Identify the locations of intersections between critical infrastructures, single point failures, and the
implications of these failures for critical infrastructure in your chosen city using your maps as a guide.
Place a circle on the map around these critical points.
Determine the impact when we remove one of these critical junctures.
For instance, explain how you would reroute traffic. Assess the impact on travel time in such scenario. Or, if
you were to have an accident in a rail yard that damaged an electrical substation, discuss the cascading
effects of losing the infrastructure on other infrastructures.
Assess the impact to human life should these single-point failures be unavailable due to a natural disaster
or terrorist attack in such a densely populated city.
What consideration will you have to consider managing special needs populations?
Analyze the first-, second-, and potentially third-order effect of a hazardous event that incorporates multiple
critical infrastructures.
Insert a picture of your map and of the legend into an “Appendix” section at the end of your report. Label
the map with the name of your chosen city, and label the Layers/Legend image with “Legend.”
The Critical Infrastructure Analysis paper
Must be a minimum of three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) in
addition to the two maps described above, and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford
Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.).
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submittedFor further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links
to an external site.).
Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional
guidance.
Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a
clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a
Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.
Must use at least one credible source in addition to the course text and the CPG101.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers
additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is
appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the
appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s
Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford
Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford
Writing Center for specifications.
Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate
your assignment.
The Website for the Map: https://www.eia.gov/state/