Current Status and Activities of the ASCE Transportation Security Committee

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Current Status and Activities of the ASCE
Transportation Security Committee

• 4th Asia-Pacific Transportation Development
  Conference April 18-20, 2003Oakland Marriott
  City Center Hotel, Oakland CA USA
• Eva Lerner-Lam, Chair, ASCE Transportation
  Security Committee
• Charles Barker, P.E., ARM, Vice-Chair, ASCE
  Transportation Security Committee

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ASCE Transportation Security Committee

• One of four cross-cutting committees of the new
  Transportation and Development Institute of
  130,000 member ASCE
• Affiliation with Transportation Infrastructure
  Security Partnership (TISP)

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Committee Organization
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Three Task Committees

• Transportation Operations Security
• Alain Kornhauser, Ph.D., P.E., Chair
• Transportation Infrastructure Security
• Simon Carbonell, P.E., Chair
• Special Initiatives
• Charles Barker, P.E., ARM, Chair

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Purpose

• Bring to bear the knowledge and capabilities of
  practicing civil engineers, engineering
  educators, and other experts in the fields of
  security and transportation.
• Serve as a forum for the members of ASCE and the
  broader civil engineering community for fleshing
  out the high-priority activities that need to
  occur to enable civil engineers working in
  transportation to respond to the post-nine-eleven
  world.

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Activities

• Gather and disseminate knowledge and guidance on
  matters pertaining to transportation security.
• Produce guidance documents, best-practice
  syntheses, and national web seminars and
  teleconferences that will provide practicing
  civil engineers with the strategies and tools
  they need to plan, design, and engineer our
  future communities and transportation networks.   

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Goals

• Development of rational, realistic transportation
  security standards, methodologies, and best
  practices
• Assemble the current standards and guidelines
  governing the design and operation of secure
  transportation systems and make those standards
  and guidelines readily available to members of
  the engineering profession
• Identify missing standards and facilitate getting
  those standards started

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Participation Encouraged

• The Transportation Security Committee and its two
  constituent task committees already have members
  whose areas of expertise range from hazardous
  materials to blast analysis and from ferry
  terminal design to rail operations.
• Members are professionals who are addressing the
  specific problem of homeland security and how
  this will interface with the routine planning,
  design, construction, and operation of
  transportation assets.

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Operations Security Task Committee Activities

• Homeland Security Warning System
• Procedural Security Guidelines Series
• Other

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Infrastructure Security Task Committee Activities

• Fixed, ram-resistant vehicle barrier design
  standards
• Engineering Security Guidelines Series
• Other

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Special Initiatives

• Web Seminars and National Teleconferences on
  Transportation Security and Standards
• Transportation Security 101 Course
• Speakers Bureau
• Liaison with other associations, agencies and
  organizations
• Communications (internal and external)

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Accomplishments

• Transportation Security E-Room
• Breakout session at TRB Annual Meeting, three
  guest speakers (USCG, FHWA, Berg Associates)
• Public speeches at ASCE Annual Conference,
  NACOTA/WCTA Conference
• Hosted Web Seminar
• Liaison with other associations, agencies and
  organizations

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Ways to Participate

• Membership
• Specific Initiatives
• Conference planning
• Peer Review
• Speakers Bureau
• Formal and informal alliances/partnerships with
  other organizations

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Related Links

• The American Society of Civil Engineers
  www.asce.org
• The Infrastructure Security Partnership
  www.tisp.org
• The Transportation and Development Institute of
  ASCE www.tanddi.org