Transit Security Training and Education Overview

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Transit Security Training and Education Overview

• Eva Lerner-Lam
• President, Palisades Group USA
• Presented toThe Education and Technology
  Transfer Subcommittee of the Critical
  Transportation Infrastructure Protection
  Committee
• TRB 2004 Annual Meeting
• January 12, 2004

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Overview

• Current Strategies
• Future Outlook and Challenges
• Recommendations

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Pre-9/11

• Security Training and Education focused primarily
  on localized, non-suicidal, petty crimes
  graffiti, vandalism, robberies, assault and
  battery

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Post-9/11

• Security Training and Education expanded to
  include large-scale, suicide attacks and weapons
  of mass destruction and cyber-terrorism

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Post-9/11 Response

• Connecting Communities
• Involving the Customer in alert status and
  process
• Empowered transit to engage with other first
  responders in training, tabletop and field
  exercises and practice drills

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Current Initiatives

• Department of Homeland Security/Transportation
  Security Administration
• Centers for Risk and Economic Analysis of
  Terrorist Events
• Federal Transit Administration
• National Transit Institute
• Web resources at http//transit-safety.volpe.dot.g
  ov/Security/Default.asp
• Transportation Research Board
• Transit Security Program at http//www4.trb.org/t
  rb/crp.nsf/AllProjects/TCRPJ-10

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Current Initiatives

• Trade and Professional Associations
• American Public Transportation Association
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• Institute of Transportation Engineers
• Labor Unions
• Amalgamated Transit Union
• USDOT Joint Program for ITS Teleconference
  Technical Training T3

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Future Outlook and Challenges

• Urgency of on-going drills and practice
• Many training curricula are still in development
• Funding for Security Training and Education is
  severely budget-constrained
• Additional burden on existing operations staff

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Recommendations

• Integrate security education and training into
  standard operating procedures, in same manner as
  Safety First, but recognize the clear
  distinction between Safety and Security Safety
  is not Security and Security is not Safety.
• Leverage existing and potential partnerships at
  all levels and across relevant disciplines
• Publish and encourage the use of best practices
  using traditional training venues as well as
  distance-learning platforms