This tenth volume of NCHRP Report 525: Surface Transportation Security will assist transportation managers in the development of transportation response options to an extreme event involving chemical, biological, or radiological agents. The project is applicable to all civilian sites (not just transportation sites) and focuses on the effect and role of transportation during such an event. This Report contains four products developed under NCHRP Project 20-59(19): http://gulliver.trb.org/publications/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_525v10.pdf1. Technical information is presented on chemical, biological, and radiological threats, including vulnerabilities of the transportation system to these agents and consequence-minimization actions that may be taken within the transportation system in response to events that involve these agents. The threat–related section of the Report presents the fundamentals of chemical, biological, and radiological agents; describes the basic information needed for emergency response decisions; discusses how chemical, biological, and radiological threats relate to transportation-system vulnerabilities and consequence-minimization actions; and generally compares the different threat-agent categories. The transportation section of the Report describes each of the transportation modes (i.e., highway, maritime, rail, aviation, and mass transit); their general organization; and their mode-specific emergency response plans, options, and structure. This report may be accessed by Internet users at 2. Tracking Emergency Response Effects on Transportation (TERET) is a spreadsheet tool structured to assist transportation managers with recognition of mass-care transportation needs and identification and mitigation of potential transportationrelated criticalities in essential services during extreme events. TERET is intended to be used as a guide during emergency response planning stages as well as during an emergency response exercise or actual event. The primary users are expected to be transportation planners and managers at emergency management centers. 3. The User’s Manual for TERET is printed at the back of the Report. It provides step-by-step instructions on the use and maintenance of TERET. 4. An Introduction to Biological, Chemical, and Radiological Threat Agents is a slide presentation with presenter notes in MS PowerPoint. It is designed as an executivelevel communications tool based on summary information from this report. Like the Report, TERET, and the User’s Manual for TERET, the slide presentation is available on the TRB website. These materials should be helpful to transportation agencies in creating or evaluating and modifying emergency response plans, policies, and procedures consistent with the National Incident Management System (NIMS). The importance of NIMS is set out in a September 8, 2004, letter to state governors, from Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge: “NIMS provides a consistent nationwide approach for Federal, State, territorial, tribal, and local governments to work effectively and efficiently together to prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents, regardless of cause, size, or complexity.” (Author/publisher)
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