System Security Awareness for Transportation Employees

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security, Volume 7: System Security Awareness for Transportation Employees is a CD-based interactive multimedia training course designed to help transportation employees, supervisors, and managers define their roles and responsibilities in transportation system security, recognize suspicious activities and objects, observe and report relevant information, and minimize harm to themselves and others.  Course modules focus on system security, reducing vulnerability, suspicious activity, suspicious objects, top priorities, and preparation.

The course was developed by the National Transit Institute (NTI) in cooperation with the Federal Transit Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and the Washington State Department of Transportation.

For a live session, NTI will provide the instructor and student materials free of charge under the NCHRP project funding. The requesting organization must provide the location and audio-visual equipment. The course can be delivered directly to the target audience by NTI instructors or as a train-the-trainer session. Participants in a train-the-trainer delivery will receive an Instructor's Package containing everything that is needed to implement the training for employees at their agency. The minimum class size is approximately 20. To schedule a free session, complete the NTI System Security Awareness Course Request Form. The course runs 3-4 hours for a direct delivery and 6 hours for a train-the-trainer.

NCHRP Report 525: Surface Transportation Security is a series in which relevant information is assembled into single, concise volumes—each pertaining to a specific security problem and closely related issues. The 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 report will be issued as they are completed.