1. AASHTO Special Committee on Transportation Security
National Needs Assessment for Ensuring Transportation Infrastructure Security (NCHRP 20-59/Task 26)
Charles Wallace, PI
Telvent Farradyne
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2. AASHTO SCOTS Committee
Research Project Team
Telvent Farradyne:
Charles Wallace, PI
David Yohanan
Doug Ham, original PI
Other staff assistance
PB Consult: Steve Lockwood
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3. Original Project Stimulus
Increased security-related costs incurred by state Departments of Transportation (DOTs)
Need to estimate total costs to inform AASHTO’s formation of federal funding request during reauthorization process
For use in AASHTO’s Bottom Line Report
Updates 2002 Report
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4. Update Project Stimuli
New federal initiatives:
National Incident Management System (NIMS)
National Response Plan/Framework (NRP/F)
National Infrastructure Protection Plan
Embrace all-hazards risk management
Review of changes in threat exposure
Reflect states’ security investments since 2002 report
Update cost estimates for next reauthorization
Add transit and commercial vehicle needs
Address State Transportation Agencies (STAs), not just “DOTs”
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5. Security Programs (Legs)
Protection of Mobility Assets
Enhancement of Traffic Management Capabilities
Improvement of State Transportation Agency Emergency Response
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6. Critical Mobility Assets: Identified Assets
No significant changes in the approximately 450+ existing bridges and 50+ tunnels
Some bridges and tunnels have added protection
More protection needed, possibly add some
Major transit stations and commercial vehicle terminals
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7. Critical Mobility Assets: Countermeasures
Maximizing explosive standoff distance
Barriers
Denial of access
Fences and locks
Minimizing time-on-target
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) surveillance
Selective protection
Blast shielding
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8. Critical Mobility Assets: Countermeasures (cont’d)
Increase ITS surveillance for security
Prevent vehicles from being used as platforms for weapons of mass destruction
Increased protection against improvised explosive devices, suicide perpetrators, and rocket-assisted munitions
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9. Traffic Management Capabilities: Program Elements
ITS deployment:
Automated vehicle-detection technology
Surveillance systems
Advance traveler information systems
Plus:
Federal/state-run centers coordinating across state lines
Joint interagency Fusion Centers
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10. State Transportation Agency Emergency Response: Program Elements
General emergency management planning, training, and exercises
National Incident Management System (NIMS)
National Response Framework (NRF)
National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP)
Planning for key security elements including vulnerability assessment and evacuation planning
Development and deployment of expanded interoperable interagency communications
Expanded and upgraded real-time security operations and coordination including the protection of traffic management centers
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11. Total 2002 Costs ($Millions)
Protecting Mobility Assets
$ 1,522 Capital
$ Operating/yr
Enhancement of Traffic Management Capabilities
$ 3,654 Capital
$ 1,914 Operating/yr
Improvement of State Transportation Agency Emergency Response
$ Capital
$ 1,638 Operating/yr
Total
$ 6,112 Capital
$ 4,434 Operating/yr
Grand Total 6-yr Capital and O&M = $10,534
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12. AASHTO SCOTS Committee
2008 Cost Bases
Protecting Mobility Assets
Infrastructure
Consider deployments to date
Escalate 2002 costs per Producer Pricing Index (PPI)
Estimates by Steve Lockwood
Transit
American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Survey in 2004
Carried forward without escalation per APTA testimony
Extended Operations & Maintenance through 6 years
Estimates by David Yohanan
Commercial Vehicles (CV)
Known commercial vehicle security programs
Advice from TSA
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13. AASHTO SCOTS Committee
2008 Cost Bases (cont’d)
Enhancement of Traffic Management Capabilities
Considered deployments to date (e.g., considerable ITS deployment)
Escalate 2002 costs per PPI
Above estimates by Steve Lockwood
Linking of Traffic Management Centers and State/Local Intelligence Fusion Centers based on team experience
Improvement of State Transportation Agency Emergency Response
Same as first three bullets above
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14. Total 2008 Costs ($Millions)
Protecting Mobility Assets
Highway Infrastructure
$1,687 Capital
$ Operating/yr
Transit
$ 5,200 Capital
$ Operating/yr
Commercial Vehicles
$ Capital
$ Operating/yr
Total Protecting Mobility Assets
$ 6,956 Capital
$ Operating/yr
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15. Total 2008 Costs (cont’d, $M)
Enhancement of Traffic Management Capabilities
$ 3,426 Capital
$ Operating/yr
Improvement of State Transportation Agency Emergency Response
$ 1,254 Capital
$ 1,638 Operating/yr
Total
$11,636 Capital
$ 1,586 Operating/yr
Grand Total 6-yr Capital and O&M = $21,152
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16. AASHTO SCOTS Committee
Project Deliverables
Updated report (supplement to 2002 report)
2-page executive summary to go in AASHTO Bottom Line Report
Updated cost spreadsheets
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17. AASHTO SCOTS Committee
Project Schedule
Preliminary Draft Final Report approved by the Panel 8/19/08
Revised Final Report to be delivered 8/30/08
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18. AASHTO Special Committee on Transportation Security
Questions?
Graphic courtesy of Michigan State University, “Critical Incident Protocols, a Public-Private Partnership”
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