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.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
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Contract Numbers:
Project 20-59
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Sponsor Organizations:
Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
444 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 225
Washington, DC United States 20001National Cooperative Highway Research Program
Transportation Research Board
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC United States 20001 -
Project Managers:
Parker, Stephan
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Performing Organizations:
Science Applications International Corporation
1710 SAIC Drive
McLean, VA United States 22102McCormick, Taylor & Associates, Incorporated
Two Commerce Square
2001 Market Street
Philadlphia, PA United States 19103 -
Principal Investigators:
Boyd, Annabelle
Friedman, David
Balog, John
- Start Date: 20211026
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- 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