Safety%20and%20Security%20of%20our%20Critical%20Infrastructure%20By:%20Ali%20Maher%20Director,%20CAIT

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Safety and Security of our Critical
InfrastructureByAli MaherDirector, CAIT

• Center for Advanced Infrastructure and
  Transportation
• Civil Environmental Engineering

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Port of NY/NJ moves 90 Billion in Cargo / year
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Transportation Infrastructure of New Jersey

• Lifeline of States Economy
• More than 6000 bridges and 35000 miles of
  roadways
• Major aviation, rail and lifeline hub for the
  region
• Heavily congested corridor environment
• Excellent laboratory for implementation of new
  ideas

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NJ Transportation Facts
Index New Jersey National NJ/National
Drivers per Mile of Road 161 48 3.3
Vehicles per Mile of Roads 178 54 3.3
Bridges / Square Mile 32 3 10.4
Urban Land 854 161 5.3
Population / Square Mile 1,134 77 14.7
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Category Grade
Roads D
Bridges C
Mass-Transit C-
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Transportation Infrastructureof New Jersey

• New Jersey (Gov. Whitmans 1998 plan, NJ FIRST).
  30 billion, 12-year transportation vision.
• FIX IT FIRST
• Eliminate bridge deficiencies on national
  highways.
• Repair deficient state highways.
• Resolve flooded state road problems.
• PLAN TODAY
• Construct missing highway links.
• Develop intermodal connections.
• Construct and complete light rail lines.

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• URS Greiner Inc.
• 3M Products
• CAMTEA
• ITE
• Ford Motor Co.
• Advanced Technology Concepts
• Stantec Inc.
• McLaren Engineering Group
• Turner Construction
• ATC, Inc.
• Advanced Infrastructure Design Inc.
• Fredrick Harris Inc.
• Raython Transportation
• Parsons Brinkerhoff
• L-3 Communications
• TSA-Advet
• Future Fuels Consulting
• MTS Systems
• Hogentogler Inc.

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Critical Infrastructure Sectors Future Research
Challenges
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The Protection Challenge (Transportation)
Aviation 5000 public airports
Passenger Rail and Railroads 120,000 miles of major railroads
Highways, Trucking and Busing 590,000 highway bridges
Pipelines 2 million miles of pipelines
Maritime 300 inland/coastal ports
Mass Transit 500 major urban public transit operators
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Cross-sector Security Initiatives
National Strategy for the Physical Protection of
Critical Infrastructure and Key Assets, the
Strategy, February 2003

• Planning and Resource Allocation
• Information Sharing and Warnings
• Personnel Survey, Building Human Capital and
  Awareness
• Technology and Research Development
• Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis

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Technology and Research Development

• Coordinate Public-Private security RD
• Coordinate standards for compatibility of
  communication systems
• Explore methods to authenticate and verify
  personnel identity
• Improve technical surveillance, monitoring and
  detection capabilities
• Condition monitoring of bridges, tunnels and
  transit stations
• Detection of CBR residues in transportation
  corridors
• Integration of sensor information with legacy IMS

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RESEARCH AREAS AT CAIT
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RESEARCH AREAS AT CAIT (Contd)
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RESEARCH AREAS AT CAIT (Contd)
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Selected Collaborative Projects Within SOE

• Past collaboration
• Optical Fiber Stress and Strain Sensors (with
  Prof. Sigel) NSF sponsored
• Optical Fiber Chemical sensors (with Prof. Sigel)
  EPA sponsored
• Piezo-electric ceramic composite WIM (with Prof.
  Safari) FHWA sponsored
• Pending and Future Collaboration
• Integrated piezo-electric ceramic composite
  structural sensors (both active and passive
  sensors)
• Advanced chemical sensors (in-situ, real-time)
• Sensors for chemical, biological residues
• Integration into legacy incident management
  systems
• New Project Funded by NSF, Security of
  Transportation Infrastructures against Biohazards