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Summary of Research Implementation Plan

NCHRP 20-59 (29) Final Report November 2010 (Summary version: April 2011)

All-Hazards Security and Emergency Management Research Implementation Plan

NCHRP Project 20-59 (29)

FINAL REPORT

SUMMARY

Requested by:

American Association of State Highway

and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

Special Committee on Transportation Security

& Emergency Management

Prepared by:

High Street Consulting, LLC

Washington, DC

November 2010

Summary Version: April 2011

The information contained in this report was prepared as part of NCHRP Project 20-59, Task 29, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Transportation Research Board.

NCHRP 20-59 (29) Draft ReportDRAFT

Acknowledgements

This study was requested by the American Association of State Highway and

Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and was conducted as part of National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 20-59(29). The

NCHRP is supported by annual voluntary contributions from the state Departments of Transportation. Project 20-59 is intended to fund quick response studies on behalf of the AASHTO Special Committee on Transportation Security and Emergency Management. The work was guided by a task group that included Chief Joseph C. Bober, Mr. John M. Contestabile, Mr. David S. Ekern,

Mr. Randell H. Iwasaki, Mr. Mark Krentz, Mr. Herby Gerard Lissade, Ms. Eileen

M. Phifer, Mr. Bryan D. Smith, Mr. Jeffrey L. Western, Mr. Robert A. Younie, Mr.

Steven L. Ernst, Mr. Ernesto L. Acosta, Mr. William Brownlow, Mr. Mark S. Bush,

Ms. Georgia M. Gia Harrigan, Mr. Vincent P. Pearce, LTC Gregory A. Pickell,

Mr. Charles Sikoff, Ms. Joedy W. Cambridge, Ms. Sheila Rimal Duwadi, Mr. Dan

Ferezan, Ms. Laurel J. Laurie Radow, and Mr. Chuck Runyon (chair). The project was managed by Stephan. A. Parker, CRP Senior Program Officer. The report was prepared by Joe Crossett of High Street Consulting, LLC.

Disclaimer

The opinions and conclusions expressed or implied are those of the research agency that performed the research and are not necessarily those of the Transportation Research Board or its sponsors. This report has not been reviewed or accepted by the Transportation Research Board's Executive Committee or the Governing Board of the National Research Council.Table of Contents

Introduction1

Deployment Strategies5

Report Structure9

Summary of Fundamentals/High Priority Research Deployment Strategies10

Summary of Supporting Research Deployment Strategies15

List of Acronyms22


Introduction

Report Purpose

This report draws on the growing list of completed Cooperative Research Program (CRP)-sponsored research products to identify selected research results that merit special deployment efforts among the transportation practitioner community and their partners in the fields of emergency management and infrastructure security. From the universe of 86 CRP research projects that were completed as of October 2010, the report identifies three categories of research products that deserve consideration for a special deployment emphasis:[footnoteRef:1] [1: Not all 86 completed CRP research results were considered deployable: a significant fraction of CRP-funded projects address time-sensitive issues such as Reauthorization policies and assessments or delivery of workshops. These research results were excluded from deployment recommendations. A complete list of research results can be found in the Cooperative Research Programs Security, Emergency Management, and Infrastructure Protection Research Status Report at www.TRB.org/SecurityPubs. That report is updated monthly.]

Five Fundamentals Reports for Deployment Consideration CRP research results categorized in this document as fundamentals reports include a small suite of five go-to documents that almost any transportation agency may wish to refer to repeatedly. Each fundamentals report tackles a critical emergency management or transportation security topic area and offers readily implementable guidance for state departments of transportation (DOTs). Together, the fundamentals reports provide comprehensive and up-to-date guidance on the major elements of a states all-hazards transportation security and emergency management program.

Eight High Priority Reports for Deployment Consideration CRP research results categorized in this document as high priority reports comprise a group of eight additional research products that generally offer practitioners helpful insights on individual elements of big picture topics that have universal relevance to all transportation agencies, such as evacuation protocols or tunnel security. Unlike fundamentals reports, however, they are not always structured in a guidance format and they may not be considered completely comprehensive.

Twelve Supporting Reports for Deployment Consideration CRP research results categorized in this document as supporting reports either focus on particular niche aspects of an all-hazards transportation security and emergency management program, such as use of K-9s in transportation agencies, or they offer complementary information that supports deployment of a more comprehensive high priority or fundamentals document.

Allocation of CRP research reports to each deployment category was informed by reviewing the relevance of research product content and by holding conversations with dozens of researchers and practitioners in the fields of emergency management and transportation security. The deployment recommendations favor research products with content that has not passed its sell by date, i.e. that remains relevant to a wide audience even if the research is not brand new. For research products in each category, an appropriate range of deployment strategies is identified along with an estimate of their approximate implementation cost over a 3-year period. A one-page summary table and recommended implementation budget overleaf provides an overview of the reports complete recommendations and their cost.


This report is intended as a resource for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Special Committee on Transportation Security and Emergency Management (SCOTSEM) and others to use as they develop their own set of recommendations on strategies that the CRP and its partners can undertake to ensure transportation agencies make maximum use of CRP research results. The reports authors anticipate that NCHRP and AASHTOs SCOTSEM may wish to fine-tune the recommendations for deployment priorities or leadership on particular deployment strategies. The opinions expressed in this report about deployment priorities for research products, individual implementation strategies, and suggested lead agencies are those of the reports author and should not be construed as a firm commitment on the part of NCHRP or other agencies.

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Fundamentals Projects

High Priority Projects

Blast Resistant Highway Bridges: Design and Detailing Guidelines

Costing Asset Protection: An All Hazards Guide for Transportation Agencies

Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies

Guide to Emergency Response Planning at State Transportation Agencies

Continuity of Operations Planning Guidelines for Transportation Agencies

Strategy

Cost

Recommendations for Bridge and Tunnel Security

Making Transportation Tunnels Safe and Secure

Reconciling Security, Disclosure, and Record Retention Requirements in Transit Procurements

Guide to Traffic Control of Rural Roads in an Agricultural Emergency

Transportations Role in Emergency Evacuation and Reentry

Guide for Emergency Transportation Operations

Guide to Planning Resources on Transportation & Hazards

Fundamentals of Effective All-Hazards Security Management for DOTs

Strategy

Cost

Total Cost

Regional Workshops

$1.5M to $2.8M

Regional Workshops

$450k to $600k

Regional Workshops

$1.95M to $3.4M

Software Development

$250k


$250k

Training Classes

$340k

Training Classes

$160k

Training Classes $500k

Nat. Symposium

$150k

Nat. Symposium

Cost shared with fundamentals

Nat. Symposium $150k

Peer-to-Peer Ambassadors

$90k



Peer-to-Peer Ambassadors $90k

Peer Review Program

$21k

Peer Review Program


Peer Review Program

$21k

Peer Exchange Program

$15k



Peer Exchange Program $15k

You Tube Video

$25k

You Tube Video


You Tube Video

$25k

Case Studies

$250k

Case Studies

$150k

Case Studies $400k

Pocket Ref. Guides

$150k

Pocket Ref. Guides

$120k

Pocket Ref. Guides $270k

Sub-Total

$3.8M-$5.1M

Sub-Total

$880k-$1M

$4.7M-$6.1M

In-kind Activities

Webinars

AASHTO Balloting

Presentation Templates

Conference Presentations

Post Materials to Web

Federal Technical Advisory/Standard/Circular


Summary of Research Deployment Recommendations and Implementation Budget

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Why Pursue Research Deployment

To individual users, the apparent scale and redundancy of the nations transportation network often gives a false sense of security. Leaders of the nations state DOTs know, however, that transportation infrastructure in many parts of the country is straining to keep up with the growing transportation needs of society and the economy. An emergency situation in one location whether caused by a terrorist attack, a man-made incident, or a natural disaster - may have a dramatic ripple effect on safe and efficient travel and the economy across a wide region for hours, days, weeks or even longer. State DOTs are finding they have no choice but to make their transportation systems more secure from, ready for and resilient to threats from all hazards.

The skill-sets, knowledge, technology, and management practices that comprise a robust all-hazards security and emergency management program are still being defined by DOTs. In this environment, research plays an essential role in helping agencies create effective programs. On topics ranging from how to design blast resistant structures to supporting emergency traffic operations, research gives DOTs access to technical reports that describe state-of-the-art knowledge; to manuals and guidebooks that help them implement new organizational structures and procedures; and to briefing papers that can help senior managers and leadership understand emerging issues. In short, research is one of the building blocks for any DOTs all hazards security and emergency management program.

The National Cooperative Highway Research Programs 20-59 research series (NCHRP 20-59) and its sister Cooperative Research Programs including the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP), Transit IDEA; legal studies; international studies; Airport CRP; Hazardous Materials CRP; National Cooperative Freight Research Program; and the Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program comprise the nations principal source of DOT-focused all-hazards transportation security and emergency management research. Since 2001, CRP has completed 86 security, emergency management, and infrastructure protection-related research projects; a full listing of CRPs completed research is included in Appendix A. Over this time period, SCOTSEM has proven instrumental in helping ensure that NCHRP research focuses on topics where state DOTs need assistance. SCOTSEM members have defined broad research priorities and they have served on project panels that guide researchers direction.

By following a well thought out strategic research agenda and ensuring practitioners stay involved in the execution of research, the NCHRP 20-59 program has successfully generated a wealth of useful information for transportation agencies that covers a wide range of important topics in the areas of all hazards security and emergency management. Much of the knowledge DOTs need to establish and expand successful security and emergency management programs is contained in research produced by NCHRP and other CRP-sponsored work completed since 2001. Practitioners sometimes struggle, however, to deploy this research. Barriers are sometimes as simple as poor distribution of research products or lack of easy-to-digest summary materials, but other challenges include lack of complementary training and education resources that support basic guidance and manuals or comprehensive outreach workshops, exercises, or peer exchanges. This report helps to overcome these hurdles by developing a proposed list of deployment strategies for key research results.

Deployment Strategies

The project-specific deployment recommendations contained in this report are informed by a common set of generic research deployment strategies that practitioners recognize as successful tools for fostering adoption of new ideas and practices within the transportation community. These generic strategies were informed by conversations with selected personnel in the CRP and at FHWA regarding good practices for deploying transportation-related research; they include the following:

AASHTO Balloting: Formal publication of CRP research by AASHTO can be used to transform reports into definitive guides, manuals or specifications for use by transportation agencies. Balloting and publication, however, is typically reserved for documents of common, significant and permanent interest to most or all AASHTO members. Some AASHTO publications such as the AASHTO Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices - are incorporated into Federal regulation and form the basis of industry-wide standards and specifications. Many other AASHTO publications, however, are more advisory in nature, such as the recently published Guide for Achieving Flexibility in Highway Design. Regardless of their intended use, AASHTO publications are carefully vetted via a member ballot prior to publication and typically they become widely cited, go to resources for AASHTO members and the broader transportation community. AASHTO balloting should be reserved for a small sub-set of all CRP research results.

Cost: AASHTO balloting is assumed to be an in-kind activity with no direct costs other than staff time costs incurred by agencies that support efforts to ballot materials. Over the long-term, significant funds may be needed to support updating of AASHTO publications.

Federal Guidance: Under the right circumstances, publication of federal guidance such as a formal Technical Advisory or Circular based on research products may be appropriate. For example, FHWA usually issues technical advisories to provide clarification to state DOTs and others on important topics; examples include advisories on aspects of pavement or bridge design and construction, or interpretation of federal laws, such as those related to NEPA. Similarly, the US Coast Guard issues Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circulars and the FTA issues guidance, often in the form of circulars, to provide grantees with direction on program specific issues and statutory requirements. FHWA Technical Advisories function in a similar fashion to AASHTO balloting in that guidance is carefully vetted prior to publication and typically it goes on to become a widely cited go to resource for AASHTO members and the broader transportation community. It is anticipated that Federal guidance will draw from a small sub-set of all CRP research results.

Cost: Federal agency guidance is assumed to be an in-kind activity with no direct costs other than staff time costs incurred by agencies to develop Technical Advisory or Circular materials.

Regional Workshops: Regional workshops are a core research deployment strategy. They are typically structured to provide both presentations on research materials and hands-on exercises that encourage participants to explore workshop concepts in detail. Workshops are a particularly valuable strategy for deployment of emergency management and transportation security research because they give participants an opportunity to discuss implementation of new and unfamiliar concepts and practices with their peers and partners in neighboring states who face similar issues. They also provide an important venue for transportation practitioners to meet and form new partnerships with personnel from other entities responsible for emergency management or transportation security. Workshops are often also a good way to refine existing research products or identify new research directions.

Cost: Contractor support is assumed to be necessary to develop workshops. Costs cover expenses such as development of workshop materials; development of workshop agendas and logistical details, such as location, registration and refreshments, room and equipment costs; facilitator time; and preparation of post-workshop summary materials. At a minimum, a two-day, 80 to 100-person workshop would require a budget of $75,000. Travel and lodging costs for participants are not included in this minimum budget.

National Symposiums: For selected topics of great relevance to a broad cross-section of agencies, national meetings can be an important research deployment strategy. They are typically structured to encourage dialogue among peers and to engage potential partners who otherwise might not be aware of all-hazards transportation security and emergency management practices.

Cost: Contractor support is assumed to be necessary to develop national meetings. Costs cover expenses such as development of meeting materials; development of agendas and logistical details, such as location, registration and refreshments, room and equipment costs; facilitator time; and preparation of post-meeting summary materials. At a minimum, a three-day, 100 to 150-person national meeting would require a budget of $150,000. Travel and lodging costs for participants are not included in this minimum budget.

Webinars: Webinars are a low cost and increasingly common way to translate dense research results into bite size information that are easy for practitioners to digest without attending a physical workshop or meeting. Readily available technology allows a presenter, such as the author of the original research document, to deliver a presentation and respond to questions and answers via the Internet. By contrast to a workshop, participants need only join the webinar for a short period and the webinar can be stored for future reference. Unlike regional workshops, however, a webinar does not provide opportunities for participants to collaborate together and form new partnerships with personnel from other entities responsible for emergency management or transportation security.

Cost: Contractor support is assumed to be unnecessary to develop webinars as authors of reports are expected to donate their time in-kind.

Long-term Access to Training Classes: Several national-level entities, such as FHWAs National Highway Institute (NHI), FTAs National Transit Institute (NTI), USDOTs Transportation Safety Institute (TSI) and the National Training and Education Division of FEMA are equipped to provide long-term access to practitioner training classes. To achieve their missions, they provide training in formats that include classroom-based and online learning. In serving national training needs, they partner with many organizations and course participants are often states, local governments, and private organizations. Transportation-related, all-hazards emergency management and transportation security-related training resources are an obvious gap in the permanent training classes provided by NHI and others.

Cost: Class development could be based on existing documents. At a minimum, development of materials for a one-day class would cost about $80,000. Costs could be borne by the training agency, its sponsor, or by NCHRP if it contracted for training.

Peer-to-Peer Ambassadors: New practices within the transportation community often spread by osmosis from one agency to another. Ambassadors can serve among their peers as visible, but informal champions for transportation security and emergency management issues within state DOTs. An ambassador will probably have lead responsibility for an all-hazards security or emergency management program in his or her state and should be willing to take on a leadership role in pursuing research deployment activities such as AASHTO balloting or developing workshops. Activities that ambassadors may become engaged in include speaking engagements at relevant conferences, as well as site visits to peer states and representation of transportation in the wider world of transportation security and emergency management.

Cost: Contractor support at $45,000 per year would be used to recruit, train, schedule, and reimburse travel for a half dozen Ambassadors, as well as to cover shipping supporting materials to scheduled Ambassador presentations.

Peer Review Program: A cross-cutting program to support state-to-state Peer Reviews of their all hazards emergency management programs, modeled on an existing program operated by APTA for transit agencies, whereby peer agencies send staff to provide review and feedback on security and emergency management programs to a state that requests such a review. A peer review program could be administered by AASHTO, with the requesting state providing funds for travel reimbursement to the peer reviewers that visit on-site as well as administrative costs to AASHTO.

Cost: For 3 to 4 days on site, with 4 peer reviewers plus AASHTO staff, the cost to the requesting agency is about $16,000. AASHTO staff could provide in-kind time to develop Peer Review Guidelines (the APTA version is available as a model) or it could be developed as a task under NCHRP at $5,000.

Peer Exchange Program: A cross-cutting program to support trading staff between cooperating agencies. Such a program could be administered by AASHTO to allow for trading staff between cooperating DOTs, for example.

Cost: The costs would be borne by the respective agencies. Development of recommended protocols and guidelines would be a one-time cost, perhaps through NCHRP, at $15,000.

Downloadable Presentations: Presentations are a helpful way to summarize research results and can be distributed via the Internet. In many instances, a workshop or webinar may generate materials suitable for posting as a downloadable presentation.

Cost: Development of downloadable presentations is assumed to be an in-kind activity with no direct costs other than modest staff time costs incurred to develop materials.

Pocket Guides: Many research products are comprehensive, but lengthy; their size may be off-putting to rushed practitioners with many competing demands on their time. To encourage this audience to become more familiar with key research results, digested pocket versions can be developed that provide a compact resource with reader-friendly attributes like color printing, attractive layout, durable card stock, spiral bound flip pages and tab sections for easy reference. Copies can be distributed directly to staff at DOTs, FHWA Division Offices and elsewhere. In addition, pocket guides can also be displayed for pick-up at relevant national meetings.

Cost: Development of pocket guides is assumed to require contractor support for development of technical content, design and layout, and printing. For purposes of estimating costs, a 20-page pocket guide is assumed to require development costs of $20,000 and printing costs of $10,000 for 5,000 copies.

You Tube Video: A major part of the overall challenge of deploying all hazards transportation security and emergency management research is securing leadership support for this topic. You Tube style web video can be used to engage the DOT CEO-level/senior manager audience via a short, targeted clips that capture their attention and lead them to action. Video materials could also be accompanied by short printed pamphlets that reinforce their message. Web video is proving to be especially effective in informing and inspiring viewers who are otherwise hard to reach. It could be used in a variety of settings including as part of transportation leadership training sessions or as a presentation centerpiece at major national conferences where senior state-level leaders gather.

Cost: Development of video content is assumed to require contractor support for development of technical content and video footage. For purposes of estimating costs, development of a 5-minute video is assumed to cost $25,000.

Conference Presentations: For recently published research work, presentations at appropriate conferences are an important way to spread word about new practices and resources. In particular, effort should be made to present information at a broad range of conferences that help communicate information to the widest possible audience.

Cost: Delivery of conference presentations is assumed to be an in-kind activity with no direct costs other than modest staff time costs incurred to develop and present materials.

Case Studies: Development of case studies can be used as a follow-on step to publication of guides and manuals that provides practitioners with practical examples of how their peers are deploying research results.

Cost: Development of case studies is assumed to require contractor support for research and writing. For 8 case studies a cost of $50,000 is assumed.

Additional Training Opportunities: In addition to workshops and NHI training, other opportunities may exist to incorporate all-hazards emergency management and transportation security into educational curriculums at higher education institutions.

Cost: Integration of all-hazards transportation security and emergency management issues into higher education curriculums is assumed to be an in-kind activity.

Electronic Downloads - Electronic copies of appropriate materials should be made readily available through AASHTOs website and other relevant websites, such as the DHSs Homeland Security Information Network and FHWAs Office of Bridge Technology or Emergency Traffic Operations websites. Convenient electronic access helps encourage uptake of materials and greater awareness. At a minimum, AASHTOs SCOTSEM website should be reorganized and overhauled to provide a more user-friendly experience for state DOTs seeking information.

Cost: Posting electronic materials is assumed to be an in-kind activity; overhaul of AASHTOs website could be achieved for a one-time cost of about $15,000.

Report Structure


The remainder of this report presents detailed information on deployment strategies for 5 fundamentals reports, 8 high priority reports, and 11 supporting reports. Fundamentals and high priority reports are presented first in a series of summary tables, followed by summary tables for supporting reports.

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Summary of Fundamentals/High Priority Research Deployment Strategies

Following are a series of tables that summarize deployment strategies for 5 fundamentals and 8 high priority CRP research results. The research results are organized around the following categories:

Bridge and Tunnel Security-related Research,

Risk Management-related Research,

Transportation Agency-wide Security-related Research,

Emergency Response Planning-related Research, and

Continuity of Operations Planning-related Research.


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Bridge and Tunnel Security (Grey Shading Indicates Fundamentals Project)

POTENTIALLY APPLICABLE DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY

1. Blast Resistant Highway Bridges: Design and Detailing Guidelines

NCHRP R645 (2010)

2. Recommendations for Bridge and Tunnel Security

NCHRP 20-59 (3) (2003)

3. Making Transportation Tunnels Safe and Secure

TCRP R86, Vol. 12/NCHRP R525, Vol. 12 (2006)

AASHTO Balloting

In-kind costs

Fed. Tech. Advisory/Circular

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

Updated Federal Inspection Requirements

Cost unknown

Cost unknown

Cost unknown

Regional Workshops

$375,000 to $700,000[footnoteRef:2] [2: Assumes 5 to 10 workshops at $75k each]


Webinar

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

Training Classes

$100,000

$80,000


$45,000

Part of #1

Part of #1

Peer Review Program

$21,000

Part of #1

Part of #1


$15,000 plus in-kind costs

Part of #1

Part of #1

Downloadable Presentation

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

Pocket Reference Guide

$30,000

$30,000

You-Tube Video Overview

$25,000

Part of #1

Part of #1


In-kind costs

In-kind costs

Case Studies

$50,000

$50,000

Additional Training Opportunities

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

Coordinated Posting of Material via Web

$15,000

Part of #1

SUB TOTAL

$626,000 to $951,000

$0

$385,000 to $460,000

Risk Management

(Grey Shading Indicates Fundamentals Project)

Transportation Agency-wide Security

(Grey Shading Indicates Fundamentals Project)


4. Costing Asset Protection: An All Hazards Guide for Transportation Agencies (CAPTA)

NCHRP R525, Vol. 15 (2009)

5. Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies NCHRP R525, Vol. 14 (2009)

6. Reconciling Security, Disclosure, and Record Retention Requirements in Transit Procurements

TCRP Legal Research Digest 32 (2010)

Guidance for Transportation Agencies on Managing Sensitive Information

NCHRP R525, Vol. 5 (2005)

AASHTO Balloting

In-kind costs


$250,000

Regional Workshops


$375,000 to $700,000

Webinar

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

Training Classes

$80,000


Part of #1

Part of #1

Peer Review Program

Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1


Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1


In-kind costs

In-kind costs

In-kind costs


$30,000

$30,000

$30,000

You-Tube Video

Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1


In-kind costs

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

Case Studies

$50,000

$50,000


In-kind costs

In-kind costs


Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1

SUB TOTAL

$705,000 to $1.030M

$535,000 to $860,000

$30,000

Emergency Response Planning(Grey Shading Indicates Fundamentals Project)


7. Guide to Emergency Response Planning at State Transportation Agencies

NCHRP Report 20-59 (3) Pending

8. A Guide to Traffic Control of Rural Roads in an Agricultural Emergency

NCHRP R525, Vol 13 (2008)

9. Transportations Role in Emergency Evacuation and Reentry

NCHRP 20-5 Synthesis Topic 39-5 (2009)

10. A Guide for Emergency Transportation Operations

NCHRP R525, Vol 6 (2005)

11. A Guide to Planning Resources on Transportation and Hazards

TCRP Research Results Digest 90/ NCHRP Research Results Digest 333 (2008)

AASHTO Balloting

In-kind costs

Regional Workshops

$375k to $700k[footnoteRef:5] [5: Assumes 5 to 10 workshops at $75k each]

$225k to $300k[footnoteRef:6] [6: Assumes 3 to 4 workshops at $75k each]

Webinar

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

National Symposium

$150,000

Part of #7

Part of #7

Training Classes

$80,000

$80,000


$45,000

Part of #7

Part of #7

Part of #7

Part of #7

Peer Review Program

Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1


Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1


In-kind costs

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

In-kind costs


$30,000

$30,000

$30,000


Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1


In-kind costs

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

Case Studies

$50,000

$50,000

$50,000


In-kind costs

In-kind costs

In-kind costs


Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1

Part of #1

SUB TOTAL

$730k to $1,055k

$385k to $460k

$0

$80,000

$0

Continuity of Operations Planning (Grey Shading Indicates Fundamentals Project)

All-Hazards Emergency Management and Transportation Security


12. Continuity of Operations Planning Guidelines for Transportation Agencies

TCRP R86, Vol. 8/NCHRP R525, Vol. 8 (2005)

13. Fundamentals of Effective All-Hazards Security Management for DOTs

NCHRP 20-59 (16B) (2007)

Webinar

In-kind costs

In-kind costs

Training Classes

$80,000


Part of #7

Part of #7

Peer Review Program

Part of #1

Part of #1


Part of #1

Part of #1


In-kind costs

In-kind costs


$30,000


Part of #1

Part of #1

Case Studies

$50,000


In-kind costs


Part of #1

Part of #1

SUB TOTAL

$160,000

$0


Summary of Fundamentals/High Priority Research Deployment Strategies

Summary of Supporting Research Deployment Strategies

Following are a series of tables that summarize deployment strategies for supporting CRP research results. The research results are organized around the following categories:

Emergency Response Planning-related Research,

Transportation Agency-wide Security-related Research, and


Supporting Research

Risk Management-related Research

Emergency Response Planning


1. Public Transportation Emergency Mobilization and Emergency Operations Guide

TCRP R86, Vol. 7 (2004)

2. Guidelines for Transportation Emergency Training Exercises (2005)

TCRP R86, Vol. 9/NCHRP R525, Vol. 9

Description: Guide outlines activities that may be taken by public transportation agencies consistent with the National Incident Management System to promote the early recognition of emergency events, expedite response to emergency events, establish multi-agency coordination, and ensure that public transportation resources are available to support the response to an emergency event. (Equivalent to DOTs Emergency Response Planning Guide.)

Description: Guidelines to assist transportation agencies in developing, implementing and evaluating drills and exercises in alignment with the National Incident Management System (NIMS).

Regional Workshops

Coordinate with Guide to Emergency Response Planning at State Transportation Agencies regional workshops (Strategy 7.02)

Webinar

Coordinate with Guide to Emergency Response Planning at State Transportation Agencies webinar (Strategy 7.03)


Ensure Emergency Management Ambassadors are aware of content in TCRP R86 Vol. 7.

Ensure Emergency Management Ambassadors are aware of content in TCRP R86 Vol. 9/ NCHRP R525, Vol. 6


Coordinate with Guide to Emergency Response Planning at State Transportation Agencies downloadable presentation (Strategy 7.07)

Develop a downloadable presentation that describes the content of TCRP R86, 9/NCHRP R525, Vol. 6


Coordinate with Guide to Emergency Response Planning at State Transportation Agencies pocket guide (Strategy 6.08)

Develop a pocket guide to transportation emergency training exercises that is based on TCRP R86, 9/NCHRP R525, Vol. 6


Incorporate TCRP R86, Vol. 7 into You Tube Video Overview (Strategy 1.10)


Post copy of Report on AASHTO SCOTSEM website

Post copy of Report on AASHTO SCOTSEM website

Transportation Agency-wide Security


3. Public Transportation Passenger Security Inspections: A Guide or Policy Decision Makers)

TCRP R86, Vol. 13 (2007)

4. K9 Units in Public Transportation: A Guide for Decision Makers (2002)

TCRP R86, Vol. 2

Description: Suggests guidance that a public transportation agency may use when considering whether, where, when, and how to introduce a passenger security inspection program into its operations. The report identifies promising types of screening technologies and methods currently in use or being tested, and the operational considerations for the deployment of these technologies in land-based systems. The report also examines legal precedents in connection with passenger screening activities, and includes a passenger security inspection policy decision-making model.

Description: Offers information on a variety of approaches to fielding K9 programs. This information is based largely on extensive interviews with nine public transportation agencies that currently deploy K9s and four agencies that disbanded their K9 programs in the last 5 years. Current K9 deployment practices, issues to be addressed in proposing the establishment of a K9 program, implementation issues, and specific information on explosives detection are discussed.

Regional Workshops

Coordinate with Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies regional workshops (Strategy 5.02)


Webinar

Coordinate with Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies webinar (Strategy 5.03)



Ensure Transportation Infrastructure Security Ambassadors are aware of content in TCRP R86 Vol. 13.


Coordinate with Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies downloadable presentation (Strategy 5.07)



Coordinate with Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies pocket guide (Strategy 5.08)



Post copy of TCRP R86 Vol. 13 Report on AASHTO SCOTSEM website


Transportation Agency-wide Security (Continued)


5. Hazards and Security Plan Workshop Instructor Guide for Rural, Small Urban, and Community-Based Public Transportation System Operations

TCRP Report R86, Vol. 10 (2006)

6. The Case for Searches on Public Transportation (2005)

TCRP Legal Research Digest 22 (2005)

Description: A how to guide for rural, small urban, and community-based passenger transportation agencies for creating hazard and security plans or evaluating and modifying existing plans, policies, and procedures consistent with the National Incident Management System (NIMS).

Description: Examines the ability of public transportation systems or their agents, within the context of federal or state law, to conduct either random searches or targeted searches of passengers on public transportation vehicles or on public transportation property.

Regional Workshops



Webinar




Ensure Transportation Infrastructure Security Ambassadors are aware of content in TCRP R86 Vol. 10.








Post copy of TCRP R86 Vol. 13 Report and other materials (including CD ROM security plan template on AASHTO SCOTSEM website)

Post copy of TCRP Legal Research Digest 22 on AASHTO SCOTSEM Website



7. Transit Security Update

TCRP Synthesis 80 (2009)

8. K9 Units in Public Transportation: A Guide for Decision Makers (2002)

TCRP R86, Vol. 2

Description: Explores transit-related counterterrorism and anti-crime security measures and practices; examines crime and security incident trends; and highlights other related topics, including major issues and obstacles to security and policing management.

Description: Offers information on a variety of approaches to fielding K9 programs. This information is based largely on extensive interviews with nine public transportation agencies that currently deploy K9s and four agencies that disbanded their K9 programs in the last 5 years. Current K9 deployment practices, issues to be addressed in proposing the establishment of a K9 program, implementation issues, and specific information on explosives detection are discussed.

Regional Workshops



Webinar




Ensure Transportation Infrastructure Security Ambassadors are aware of content in TCRP Synthesis 80.








Incorporate TCRP Synthesis 80 into You Tube Video Overview (Strategy 1.10)

Coordinated Posting on Web

Post copy of TCRP Synthesis 80 on AASHTO SCOTSEM website




9. Security Measures for Ferry Systems

TCRP R86, Vol. 11 (2006)

10. Responding to Threats: A Field Personnel Manual

NCHRP R525, Vol. 1 (2003)

Description: Designed to assist U.S. ferry system operators in evaluating and selecting general security measures (GSM) for their operations consistent with the National Incident Management System. The seven-step GSM evaluation process and the description of the characteristics of the U.S. ferry are supplemented by an Excel tool for applying the seven-step GSM evaluation process.

Description: A template style document that contains basic security awareness training in a workbook format that can be redesigned as a pamphlet, glove-box brochure, or other user-specific document. Emphasizes noticing and reporting behavior that may be part of the planning stages of an event, and explains how an increased level of attention on the part of all employees can deter criminal and terrorist plans prior to implementation.

Regional Workshops

Integrate into Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies regional workshops as needed (Strategy 5.02)

Integrate into Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies regional workshops as needed (Strategy 5.02)

Webinar

Integrate into Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies webinar as needed (Strategy 5.03)

Integrate into Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies webinar as needed (Strategy 5.03)


Ensure Transportation Infrastructure Security Ambassadors are aware of content in NCHRP R525, Vol. 11.



Incorporate TCRP R86, Vol. 11 into You Tube Video Overview (Strategy 1.10)


Post copy of TCRP R86, Vol.11 on AASHTO SCOTSEM website

Post copy of NCHRP R525, Vol. 1 and related materials on AASHTO SCOTSEM website

Risk Management


11. Disruption Impact Estimating ToolTransportation (DIETT): A Tool for Prioritizing High-Value Transportation Choke Points

NCHRP R525, Vol. 11 (2006)

12. A Guide to Highway Vulnerability Assessment for Critical Asset Identification and Protection

NCHRP 20-7 151 B (2002)

Description: DIETT is an electronic analytical tool that calculates direct transportation and economic impacts (costs) of an event that precludes the use of a transportation choke point (TCP) and it prioritizes TCPs on the basis of these criteria. Using DIETTs prioritized sets of outputs, along with other risk information, decision makers will be able to better focus their capital resource, security, and emergency-preparedness planning.

Description: A guide for state DOTs to assess the vulnerabilities of their physical assets such as bridges, tunnels, roadways, and inspection and traffic operation facilities, among others; develop possible countermeasures to deter, detect, and delay the consequences of terrorist threats to such assets; estimate the capital and operating costs of such countermeasures; and improve security operational planning for better protection against future acts of terrorism.

Regional Workshops

Coordinate with Costing Asset Protection (CAPTA) regional workshops (Strategy 4.01)

Coordinate with Costing Asset Protection (CAPTA) regional workshops (Strategy 4.01)

Webinar

Coordinate with Costing Asset Protection (CAPTA) webinar (Strategy 4.02)

Coordinate with Costing Asset Protection (CAPTA) webinar (Strategy 4.02)




Post copy of NCHRP R525, Vol. 11 Report and other materials on AASHTO SCOTSEM website)


Supporting Research

List of Acronyms

AASHTOAmerican Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

APSCOAssociation of Public-Safety Communications Officials

ASCEAmerican Society of Civil Engineers

CRPCooperative Research Program

DHSDepartment of Homeland Security

DOTDepartment of Transportation

FEMAFederal Emergency Management Agency

FHWAFederal Highway Administration

FTAFederal Transit Administration

IACPInternational Association of Chiefs of Police

IAFCInternational Association of Fire Chiefs

IAEMInternational Association of Emergency Managers

IBTTAInternational Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association

ITAInternational Tunneling Association

ITEInstitute of Transportation Engineers

ITS AmericaIntelligent Transportation Society of America

MPOMetropolitan Planning Organization

NASEMONational Association of State Emergency Medical Service Officials

NPSTCNational Public Safety Telecommunications Council

NTIMCNational Traffic Incident Management Coalition

NCHRPNational Cooperative Highway Research Program

NFPANational Fire Protection Association

NHINational Highway Institute

NTINational Transit Institute

SCOTSEMSpecial Committee on Transportation Security and Emergency Management

SCOHStanding Committee on Highways

SCOPStanding Committee on Planning

TCRPTransit Cooperative Research Program

TRBTransportation Research Board

TSATransportation Security Administration

TSITransportation Safety Institute

USACEUnited States Army Corps of Engineers

USCGUnited States Coast Guard

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