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Title: Leveraging%20ITS%20to%20Enhance%20Transit%20Security


1
Leveraging ITS to Enhance Transit Security
  • Eva Lerner-Lam, President
  • Palisades Consulting Group, Inc.
  • Presented at the
  • 2003 Annual Meeting of ITS America Rhode Island
  • Warwick, RI
  • September 17, 2003

2
Transit in the Nations Service
  • Nearly 10 billion annual passenger trips
  • 556 public transportation operators in urban
    areas
  • 1,260 organizations that provide public
    transportation services in rural areas and,
  • 3,660 organizations that provide public
    transportation services to the elderly and
    disabled people.

3
Transit is a Target
  • Armed Assault
  • Hostage Taking
  • Chemical Release On Board
  • Explosive on Board
  • Chemical Outside
  • Explosive/Sabotage Outside

4
Transit is also Critical for Evacuation and
Recovery
  • Dependable, multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional
    communications systems are essential
  • Added responsibilities for employees

5
Transit Performs Well Under Stress
  • 9/11
  • August 14, 2003 Blackout
  • LA Olympics
  • Loma Prieta Earthquake
  • Every day crises
  • 7-stage color-coded warning system

6
Whats Important
  1. Knowing our Vulnerabilities
  2. Having Plans (Plan A, Plan B, etc.)
  3. Training, Drilling and Practicing

7
How Can ITS Help?
  • Knowing our Vulnerabilities
  • Surveillance video, data systems
  • Detection IT firewalls, chemical sensors
  • Trend analyses data collection /analysis
  • Connecting the dots models and
    simulations

8
How Can ITS Help?
  • Having Plans
  • Planning must be multi-jurisdictional and
    multi-agency, so interoperable communications is
    essential
  • National ITS architecture, standards and
    protocols provide strong framework

9
How Can ITS Help?
  • Training, Drilling and Practicing
  • Evacuation instructions
  • ATIS for employees and customers

10
ITS Depends on the People Who Spec the Devices
  • 9/11 helped galvanize multi-agency,
    multi-jurisdictional coordination at the local
    level
  • Communications, communications, communications
    ITS

11
Looking to the Future
  1. Keep up the good work!
  2. Leverage human cooperationto leverage ITSto
    enhance transit security
  3. Understand that ITS for transit is not so much
    the technology but getting data to flow
  4. Voila! ITS Getting data to flow enhanced
    transit security
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