This tenth volume of TCRP Report 86: Public Transportation Security will assist rural, small urban, and community-based passenger transportation agencies in creating hazard and security plans or evaluating and modifying existing 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.” Rural, small urban, and community-based passenger transportation agencies face many of the same security concerns as other service-sector enterprises. Transit employees may experience workplace violence or spillovers of domestic violence, and there is a risk of domestic or international terrorism. Beyond the immediate trauma of intentional harm to an employee, a destroyed vehicle, or a vandalized facility, there can be disruptions to operations and emotionally disturbing repercussions to employees and passengers that could shatter the functionality of the transit system. Consequently, transit systems must have a hazard and security plan in place, understood by all staff, to identify and to eliminate the risk or minimize the loss and disruptions to operations, staff, and passengers. To accomplish the above tasks, rural, small urban, and community-based passenger transportation systems need practical planning templates that reflect the operating environment and the realities of available staff for implementation. The templates must be flexible so they can be used in developing customized security plans and combined with effective training tools for each unique transit system. Hence, the objective of this project was to develop a hazard and security planning template and to design training for developing security plans and integrating those plans into the routine of daily transit operations. Users of the TCRP Report 86 series will find that the products emphasize mitigation along with prevention, preparation, response, and recovery. The training course in this report is supplemented online with a downloadable template for a completed hazard and security plan. The CD-ROM includes those resources and more than 60 other documents organized in an electronic library. AECOM Consult prepared this volume of TCRP Report 86 under TCRP Project J-10D. Emergencies arising from terrorist threats highlight the need for transportation managers to minimize the vulnerability of travelers, employees, and physical assets through incident prevention, preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery. Managers seek to reduce the chances that transportation vehicles and facilities will be targets or instruments of terrorist attacks and to be prepared to respond to and recover from such possibilities. By being prepared to respond to terrorism, each transportation agency is simultaneously prepared to respond to natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires, as well as human-caused events such as hazardous materials spills and other incidents. This is the tenth volume of TCRP Report 86: Public Transportation Security, a series in which relevant information is assembled into single, concise volumes—each pertaining to a specific security problem and closely related issues. These volumes focus on the concerns that transportation agencies are addressing when developing programs in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the anthrax attacks that followed. Future volumes of the reports will be issued as they are completed. To develop this volume in a comprehensive manner and to ensure inclusion of significant knowledge, available information was assembled from numerous sources, including a number of state departments of transportation. A topic panel of experts in the subject area was established to guide the researchers in organizing and evaluating the collected data and to review the final document. This volume was prepared to meet an urgent need for information in this area. It records practices that were acceptable within the limitations of the knowledge available at the time of its preparation. Work in this area is proceeding swiftly, and readers are encouraged to be on the lookout for the most up-to-date information. Volumes issued under TCRP Report 86: Public Transportation Security may be found on the TRB website at http://www.TRB.org/SecurityPubs. (Author/publisher)
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