Surface Transportation Security Research

Emergencies arising from terrorist threats highlight the need for transportation managers to minimize the vulnerability of people and assets through incident prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Managers are seeking to reduce the chances that transportation vehicles and facilities are targets or instruments of terrorist attacks and to be prepared to respond to and recover from such possibilities. The Transit Cooperative Research Program has budgeted $2.75 million for coordinated security-related research in FY 2002 through FY 2006 (see https://www.trb.org/TRBNet/ProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=1186). The National Cooperative Highway Research Program has budgeted $6.5 million in FY 2002 through FY 2010 for coordinated security-related research (see https://www.trb.org/TRBNet/ProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=644). A consolidated list of these and other security-related projects is updated monthly and posted online (see https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/dva/CRP-SecurityResearch.pdf). TRB-published reports can be accessed at www.TRB.org/SecurityPubs. Although a wealth of new resources is now available or under development through the cooperative research programs, TRB and the National Academies have generated extensive information on these issues in recent years. The TRB Transportation System Security website (https://www.trb.org/Activities/Security/TransportationSecurity1.asp) brings together much of this information. Also included are links to other related websites that contain discussions of issues, actions which can be taken, guidance, and training opportunities. The TRB Transportation System Security website is sponsored by the TRB Committee on Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection (https://sites.google.com/site/trbcommitteeabe40/) and is updated regularly. The AASHTO Special Committee on Transportation Security and Emergency Management (formerly the Task Force on Transportation Security) and the APTA Executive Committee Security Affairs Steering Committee provide steering direction to the coordinated Cooperative Research Programs Security Research under NCHRP and TCRP, respectively. In addition, a technical panel provides all-hazards, all modes oversight and project selection guidance through NCHRP Project Panel 20-59, Surface Transportation Security Research, was in effect through 2014. In 2016, the 20-59 panel became responsible for NCHRP's projects on resilience. The objective of this program is to provide flexible, ongoing, quick-response research on transportation issues related to resilience, emergency incident prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, paying particular attention to potential terrorist threats. Such research should be designed to develop improvements to analytical methods, decision support tools, procedures, and techniques employed by practitioners to support statewide, local, and metropolitan transportation organizations in planning, exercising, and evaluating their security programs.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=644

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 20-59

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 225
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Project Managers:

  Parker, Stephan

• Performing Organizations:

  Science Applications International Corporation

  1710 SAIC Drive
  McLean, VA  United States  22102

  McCormick, Taylor & Associates, Incorporated

  Two Commerce Square
  2001 Market Street
  Philadlphia, PA  United States  19103
• Principal Investigators:

  Boyd, Annabelle

  Friedman, David

  Balog, John

• Start Date: 20070801
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20230725
• Source Data: RiP Project 7434

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Emergency response time; Evacuation; Incident management; Infrastructure; Prevention; Research projects; Security checkpoints; Terrorism; Transit safety; Transportation planning
• Identifier Terms: National Cooperative Highway Research Program
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01547266
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Cooperative Highway Research Program
• Contract Numbers: Project 20-59
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Dec 4 2014 1:01AM