Legal Aspects of Transit and Intermodal Transportation Programs. Topic 19-03. Navigating the Complexities of Sensitive Security Information (SSI) and Protected Critical Infrastructure Information (PCII)

The objectives of this research are to: (1) Review and identify SSI and PCII regulations and requirements relevant to transit agencies, focusing on federal requirements, but also highlighting representative state laws and regulations. (2) Identify potential legal and operational consequences for improper, too broad, or too restrictive designation of SSI. (3) Produce a report that includes best practices or common industry understandings or questions regarding the designation of potential protected information. It is expected that the research consultant will obtain guidance that has been issued by DOT or TSA, and interview representatives of transit agencies to determine how the agencies have applied the regulations. The research should also include a confidential survey of a sample of transit agencies to determine what challenges those agencies may have faced in designating various types of information as SSI - or submitting information to TSA for classification as PCII, if at all. The guidance provided should answer question, such as, to what extent do the federal agencies become directly involved with transit agencies regarding particular requests from the public?

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4820

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $50000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project J-05, Topic 19-03

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Transit Cooperative Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC    20001

  Federal Transit Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Chisholm-Smith, Gwen

• Performing Organizations:

  Countermeasures Assessment & Security Experts, LLC

  527 Cooper Street, Suite 305
  Camden, NJ  United States  08102
• Principal Investigators:

  Frazier, Ernest

• Start Date: 20200221
• Expected Completion Date: 20230330
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Data privacy; Data protection; Information management; Infrastructure; Legal factors; Regulations; Security; Transit operating agencies
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Law; Public Transportation; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01712251
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project J-05, Topic 19-03
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 23 2019 8:46AM