A slideshow summary of the Transportation Research Board's pre- and post-September 11, 2001, transportation security activities is updated monthly.

TRB's Cooperative Research Program produces a table summarizing more than 80 security and emergency preparedness projects representing over $11 million in the contract research programs for state departments of transportation and the public transportation industry.  Updated monthly.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525, Vol. 14, Security 101: A Physical Security Primer for Transportation Agencies is designed to provide transportation managers and employees with an introductory-level reference document to enhance their working knowledge of security concepts, guidelines, definitions, and standards.

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 22: Helping Airport and Air Carrier Employees Cope with Traumatic Events provides insight and practical guidance to address the difficult emotional and psychological implications in response and exposure to traumatic events. These traumatic events can be the result of human-made accidents, acts of terrorism, or natural disasters that have...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) have jointly released A Guide to Planning Resources on Transportation and Hazards. The report was published as NCHRP Research Results Digest (RRD) 333 and as TCRP RRD 90. The report highlights a framework for thinking about the stages of a disaster, and identifies some of the most current...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) have jointly released A Guide to Planning Resources on Transportation and Hazards. The report was published as NCHRP Research Results Digest (RRD) 333 and as TCRP RRD 90. The report highlights a framework for thinking about the stages of a disaster, and identifies some of the most current...

A fact sheet from the National Academies and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security offers clear, objective information on improvised explosive devices (IED) attacks and their impact and dangers.  Created for journalists participating in the Academies' workshops on "News and Terrorism: Communicating in a Crisis," the fact sheet may be helpful to transportation agencies’ employees who cou...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 392: Transportation’s Role in Emergency Evacuation and Reentry explores information on transportation’s role in emergency evacuation and reentry by summarizing aspects of its planning, control, and research as well as highlighting effective and innovative practices.

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 80: Transit Security Update explores transit-related counterterrorism and anti-crime security measures and practices; examines crime and security incident trends; and highlights other related topics, including major issues and obstacles to security and policing management.  The report is an update to TCRP Synthesis of Trans...

TRB Conference Proceedings 45: U.S. Marine Salvage Assets and Capabilities in a Maritime Disaster is the proceedings of a September 2008 workshop that focused on a scenario involving an incident that shuts down the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.  The proceedings examine the threat and explore key issues relating to an efficient, effective, and coordinated U.S. salvage industry respo...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 12: An Airport Guide for Regional Emergency Planning for CBRNE Events explores details airports should cover in their hazard and threat assessments and in their Airport Emergency Plans (AEPs) and Annexes.  The report also examines issues involving terrorist use of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive (CBRNE) mat...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2089 includes 13 papers that explore approximations to the average length of vehicle routing problems, heuristic framework for optimizing hurricane evacuation operations, location routing approach for the humanitarian prepositioning problem, emergency evacuation planning, integrating equity objectives...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525, Vol. 15: Costing Asset Protection: An All-Hazards Guide for Transportation Agencies (CAPTA) is designed as a planning tool for top-down estimation of both capital and operating budget implications of measures intended to reduce risks to locally acceptable levels.  CAPTA supports mainstreaming an integrated, high-level...

TRB Special Report 294: The Role of Transit in Emergency Evacuation explores the roles that transit systems can play in accommodating the evacuation, egress, and ingress of people from and to critical locations in times of emergency.  The report focuses on major incidents that could necessitate a partial to full evacuation of the central business district or other large portion of an urba...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 130 is an annotated bibliography that reviews several state emergency response plans associated with traffic control of rural roads in an agricultural emergency.  The material contained in Web-Only Document 130 was used to help produce NCHRP Report 525, Vol. 13: A Guide to Traffic Control of Rural Roads in an Ag...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525, Vol. 13: A Guide to Traffic Control of Rural Roads in an Agricultural Emergency explores recommended practices and procedures associated with traffic control on local and state roads during agricultural emergencies.  The report examines three levels of traffic control based on the type of disease and location of...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2041 includes 10 papers that explore reliability and security in transportation networks, intergovernmental cooperation in the conduct of a local government continuity-of-operations exercise, transportation network risk profile for an origin-destination pair, integrated urban evacuation planning frame...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 5: Quarantine Facilities for Arriving Air Travelers: Identification of Planning Needs and Costs explores facility issues, security considerations, and estimated costs (including operating costs) that airport operators and policymakers may want to consider when planning for the potential quarantine of arriving air travelers.

TRB’s Conference Proceedings 41: Interagency–Aviation Industry Collaboration on Planning for Pandemic Outbreaks summarizes a September 5-7, 2007, workshop that took place in Washington, D.C.  Among the issues explored in the proceedings are the current state-of-the-practice for pandemic planning by airports and airlines, coordination among various agencies and the aviation sec...

The Disasters Roundtable, part of the National Academies’ Division on Earth and Life Studies, has released a summary of a workshop that explores what has been learned about disaster recovery from scientific research and based on the experience of policy makers and practitioners.  The report also examines recovery actions following the September 11th terrorist attacks and Hurricane K...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 87: Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery in the Transit Industry explores emergency preparedness programs in public transportation systems in several Asian cities.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Results Digest 326: State Public Transportation Division Involvement in State Emergency Planning, Response, and Recovery explores the best policies and practices of state transit divisions pertaining to weather-related emergencies.  The report highlights lessons learned from recent emergencies, issues associated wi...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2022 includes 11 papers that explore emergency resource allocation for critical transportation infrastructure protection, intelligent transportation system networks survivability, information sharing during emergency response and recovery, multiple hazards protective measures, and the spatiotemporal m...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2009 includes 17 papers that explore hazard anticipation of novice and experienced drivers, eye movement patterns of novice teen drivers, differences in perceptions of driving skills, older drivers and the driving decision, monitoring displays and speed cameras for speed reduction, intersection safety...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86, Public Transportation Security Public Transportation Security Volume 13: Public Transportation Passenger Security Inspections: A Guide for Policy Decision Makers suggests guidance that a public transportation agency may use when considering whether, where, when, and how to introduce a passenger security inspection program into ...

The Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology and the Board on Life Sciences, both part of the National Academies’ Division on Earth and Life Studies (DELS), have released a report that examines existing work on preventing and mitigating the effects of airborne biological or chemical threat agents released within or infiltrated into built structures.  The report explores general pri...

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 3: General Aviation Safety and Security Practices examines resources used by the general aviation community in the development of safety and security programs, explores funding sources and issues that determine the amount of money spent on such programs, and describes current practices that general aviation airports use to keep ...

The May-June 2007 issue of TR News includes the following articles: Improving Disaster Preparedness and Response Through Practice-Oriented Research Capabilities-Based Planning for the National Preparedness System Restoring the National Response System: Fixing the Flaws Exposed by Hurricane Katrina Conceptualizing and Measuring Resilience: A Key to Disaster Loss Reduction The Prague Subway&rsqu...

The Polar Research Board, part of the National Academies’ Division on Earth and Life Studies (DELS), and the Marine Board, part of the Academies’ Transportation Research Board, have released a report that explores the current and future needs for icebreaking ship capabilities of the United States.  The Committee that produced the report concluded that the nation continues to require a pol...

The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, part of the National Academies’ Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (DEPS), has released a report that suggests information technology has unrealized potential to improve how communities and the nation handle natural disasters and terrorism.  The committee that produced the report believes that investments in information t...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security and TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security series publications have jointly published Making Transportation in Tunnels Safe and Secure.  The report is Volume 12 in each series.  The report is designed to provide trans...

The Committee on Science, Technology, and Law, part of the National Academies’ Division on Policy and Global Affairs (PGA), has released a report that calls upon the United States to ensure the open exchange of unclassified research despite the small risk that it could be misused for harm by terrorists or rogue nations, in order to help strengthen the essential role that science and tech...

The Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (BPH), part of the National Academies’ Institute of Medicine (IOM), has released a letter report that explores the quality of existing models about a potential influenza pandemic and their utility for predicting the effects of various community containment policies on disease mitigation.  The report also examines the availabl...

The National Academies’ National Research Council, in cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences, has released the proceedings of the third United States-Russian interacademy workshop in January 2005 on the general theme of countering terrorism.  The report focuses on many dimensions of urban terrorism including the integration of response activities of different government or...

The September-October 2006 issue of TR News includes the following articles: Toward More Golden Anniversaries: Securing Transportation’s Place in the National Policy Agenda Freight Transportation Industry Roundtable: Fostering a Dialogue with Federal Policy Makers The Containership Revolution: Malcom McLean’s 1956 Innovation Goes Global Container Shipping and the Economy: Stimulati...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1942 explores transportation security-related topics, including emergency evacuation of densely populated, urban areas and the response of transportation systems; the impact of security perception on intercity mode choice; trade-offs between security and inspection capacity at land border ports of ent...

The Committee on Disaster Research in Social Sciences: Future Challenges and Opportunities, part of the National Academies’ Division on Earth and Life Studies (DELS), has released a report that assesses the current state of social science hazards and disaster research and provides a set of recommendations that reflect opportunities and challenges in the field.  DELS, like TRB, is pa...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security, Volume 11: Security Measures for Ferry Systems is designed to assist U.S. ferry system operators in evaluating and selecting general security measures (GSM) for their operations consistent with the National Incident Management System. The seven-step GSM evaluation process and the description of the cha...

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 ac...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security, Volume 11, Disruption Impact Estimating Tool—Transportation (DIETT): A Tool for Prioritizing High-Value Transportation Choke Points (TCPs) includes information on DIETT as well as installation instructions and a user guide.  DIETT is an electronic analytical tool that calcu...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security, Volume 10: A Guide to Transportation's Role in Public Health Disasters examines development of transportation response options to an extreme event involving chemical, biological, or radiological agents.  The report contains technical information on chemical, biological, and radio...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1938 examines the use of biometric technologies to identify individuals at transportation facilities and border crossings, advanced vehicle identification technologies, risk assessment methods for transportation management centers, and more. Individual TRR Journals, which are published on an irregular...

The latest issue of the National Academies In Focus magazine highlights three transportation-related reports recently released by the National Academies. Highlighted are  TRB Special Report 285: The Fuel Tax and Alternatives for Transportation Funding , which examines the viability of existing revenue sources, the merits of present transportation finance arrangements, and potential direct...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security and TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security series publications have jointly published Guidelines for Transportation Emergency Training Exercises.  The report is Volume 9 in each series.  The report is designed to assi...

The National Materials Advisory Board (NMAB) of the National Academies’ Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (DEPS) has released a report that calls for enhancing defenses against chemical or biological attack in airport terminals, boarding areas, and aircraft by using improved video surveillance, reducing airflow between airport areas, and deploying "active purification un...

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board No. 1922 examines the responses of cognitively impaired older drivers to emergency vehicles, the crash cost savings associated with red light cameras, the design of safe roadways within and around schools in Texas, the modeling of contraflow freeway traffic under evacuation conditions, and the safety effec...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security, Volume 10 -- Hazard and Security Plan Workshop: Instructor Guide is designed to assist rural, small urban, and community-based passenger transportation agencies in creating hazard and security plans or in evaluating and modifying existing plans, policies, and procedures consistent with the National Inc...

TRB’s Research in Progress (RiP) database includes information on more than 130 transportation security-related research projects underway or recently completed as part of its overall database of more than 8,000 projects.  The RiP website allows users to browse and search information in the database, which is maintained by the transportation research organization conducting the research. ...

TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) online database includes information on, and when available links to, more than 15,000 papers and publications related to transportation security as part of its overall database of more than 650,000 records.  TRIS is a bibliographic database funded by sponsors of TRB, primarily the state departments of transportation and selected f...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security and TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security series publications have jointly published Continuity of Operations (COOP) Planning Guidelines for Transportation Agencies.  The report is Volume 8 in each series.  The report is designe...

TRB’s Legal Research Digest 22: The Case for Searches on Public Transportation examines the ability of public transportation systems or their agents, within the context of federal or state law, to conduct either random searches or targeted searches of passengers on public transportation vehicles or on public transportation property.  

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security, Volume 6: Guide for Emergency Transportation Operations supports development of a formal program for the improved management of traffic incidents, natural disasters, security events, and other emergencies on the highway system. It outlines a coordinated, performance-oriented, all-hazard app...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 73: Emergency Transportation Operations: Resources Guide for NCHRP Report 525, Volume 6 is a resources guide on emergency transportation operations (ETO) containing bibliographical material that may be useful to readers of NCHRP Report 525, Volume 6. NCHRP Report 525: Surface Transportation Security, Volume 6: Guide ...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security, Volume 7 -- Public Transportation Emergency Mobilization and Emergency Operations Guide examines activities that may be taken by public transportation agencies working with their local communities to promote the early recognition of emergency events, expedite response to emergency events, establish mul...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web Only Document 25, Public Transportation Emergency Mobilization Guide: Appendix B—Survey of U. S. Public Transportation Systems includes additional information on the survey used as input on TCRP Report 86: Public Transportation Security, Volume 7 with the same title.  TCRP Report 86 examines actions that may be taken by public transpor...

The May-June 2005 issue of TR News includes the following articles: Assessing Transportation Security Training: A Survey of Needs and Programs Evacuation Planning, Human Factors, and Traffic Engineering: Developing Systems for Training and Effective Response New Frontiers in Emergency and Incident Management Training: Multiagency Models and Interactive Simulation Systems Developing and Expandi...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security, Volume 5: Guidance for Transportation Agencies on Managing Sensitive Information provides basic information on identifying and controlling access to sensitive information. NCHRP Report 525: Surface Transportation Security is a series in which relevant information is assembled into single, c...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security, Volume 4: A Self-Study Course on Terrorism-Related Risk Management of Highway Infrastructure is designed to provide a general background in terrorism-related risk management for highway infrastructure.  The report is also designed to assist bridge and structures engineers and managers ...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525, Surface Transportation Security, Volume 3: Incorporating Security into the Transportation Planning Process examines the status, constraints, opportunities, and strategies for incorporating security into transportation planning at the state and metropolitan levels.  The report also examines security-related projects in...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 58: Emergency Response Procedures for Natural Gas Transit Vehicles identifies and documents the state of the practice on emergency response protocols to incidents involving natural gas-filled transit buses.  The report is designed to assist first responders to natural gas incidents—emergency response professionals such as police ...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security Volume 2: Information Sharing and Analysis Centers: Overview and Supporting Software Features examines how to organize and share security threat information across transportation organizations. NCHRP Report 525: Surface Transportation Security is a series in which relevant information is ass...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security, Volume 1: Responding to Threats: A Field Personnel Manual includes a draft template that contains basic security awareness training in a workbook format that can be redesigned as a pamphlet, glove-box brochure, or other user-specific document. This NCHRP manual emphasizes noticing and repor...

TRB Conference Proceedings 30: Marine Salvage Capabilities: Responding to Terrorist Attacks in U.S. Ports—Actions to Improve Readiness is the report of the TRB Marine Board Workshop on Marine Salvage Response Capability held on August 5-6, 2003, in Washington, DC.  The workshop addressed economic, legal, forensic, environmental, and human casualty issues related to salvage. The repo...

TRB’s Electronic Circular E-C065: Transportation Security Education and Training summarizes the transportation security education and training presentations at the TRB’s 83rd Annual Meeting, January 11–15, 2004, and emphasizes the important security duties transportation professional’ play in protecting against and reacting to security events.

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security, Volume 6: Applicability of Portable Explosive Detection Devices in Transit Environments assesses the usefulness of portable explosive detectors in a transit environment to help transit agencies augment their existing explosive detection activities. The TCRP Report 86: Public Transportation Security ser...

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 520: Sharing Information between Public Safety and Transportation Agencies for Traffic Incident Management presents lessons learned from around the country on how public safety and transportation agencies share information for managing traffic incidents.

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security, Volume 5: Security-Related Customer Communications and Training for Public Transportation Providers is designed to provide improved tools for security-related customer communications and training. This report is in electronic format on CRP-CD-43. The CD contains a 15-minute video on the importance of t...

TRB Transportation Research Circular EC060: Using Simulation to Evaluate Impacts of Airport Security -- 2003 Simulation Workshop documents the proceedings of a January 12, 2003, workshop. The primary objective of this workshop was to present, demonstrate, and discuss the passenger and baggage screening simulation techniques used to comply with the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) ...

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1827 addresses the integration of preventive pavement maintenance, the development of a structural condition index to support rehabilitation decisions, and the use of robotic machines for highway crack sealing. This issue also provides research findings on structural maintenance, including the implementation of virtual...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security, Volume 4: Intrusion Detection for Public Transportation Facilities Handbook addresses transit agencies’ needs for evaluating and upgrading the intrusion detection systems applicable to the spectrum of their facilities (including tunnels, bridges, buildings, power stations, transfer stations, rail...

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1822 includes papers examining various aspects of security operations in transportation. Topics covered include anti-terrorism security measures for surface transportation, vulnerability assessment, and evaluation of transit system emergency preparedness. Individual TRR Journals, which are published on an irregular bas...

TRB's Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) Synthesis 2: Security Measures in the Commercial Trucking and Bus Industries addresses key security threats to the commercial trucking and bus industries, risk management techniques available to assess potential threats, employee/driver hiring procedures, and more. Report Parts; Front Matter , Chapter 1 , Chapter 2 , Chapter 3 , C...

TRB Special Report 274 - Cybersecurity of Freight Information Systems: A Scoping Study reviews trends in the use of information technology in the freight transportation industry and assesses potential vulnerabilities to a cyberattack.

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 59: A Guide to Public Transportation Security Resources provides a listing of available (or soon-to-be-available) security resources, which can be obtained from public transportation systems, organizations, associations, institutions, and others.

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 58: International Transit Studies Program: Safety and Security Issues at All-Bus Systems in Small- to Medium-Sized Cities in Western Europe summarizes the transit study mission performed June 14-29, 2002, and includes transportation information on the cities and facilities visited, lessons learned, and discussions of pol...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security, Volume 3: Robotic Devices: A Guide for the Transit Environment includes prototypical requirement specifications, a primer on the features available for robotic devices, and results of a market survey of available systems appropriate for certain identified environments. Report Parts; Part A , Part B , P...

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 309: Transportation Planning and Management for Special Events addresses how various agencies are planning, coordinating services, and managing the overall transportation systems for both frequent and infrequent events. Report Parts; [ Front Matter |  Chapters 3-4 |  Chapter 5-7 |  Chapters 8 |  Chapters 9...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security, Volume 2: K9 Units in Public Transportation: A Guide for Decision Makers offers information on current K9 deployment practices, K9 program establishment issues, and explosives detection.

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security, Volume 1: Communication of Threats: A Guide includes approaches to sharing of threat information and strategies for sharing analyzed and unanalyzed reports of suspicious activities.

TRB Special Report 270: Deterrence, Protection, and Preparation: The New Transportation Security Imperative examines the role of science and technology in countering terrorism.  It presents advice on a strategic approach to transportation security that recognizes the need to move people and goods efficiently and the need to improve security against terrorism.  The report emphasizes a...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 41: Guidelines for Collecting, Analyzing, and Reporting Transit Crime Data presents findings about current methods for collecting, analyzing, and using data on transit-related crime to make decisions on personnel deployment and on allocation of security resources. The findings are based on telephone interviews and on info...

TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 38: Electronic Surveillance Technology on Transit Vehicles describes the state of the practice concerning the use of on-board vehicle surveillance technologies designed to address both safety and security issues at public transportation agencies. It includes a review of emerging technologies likely to be implemented in the near future in...

This digest describes several means, identified in National Cooperative Highway Research Program Project 6-12, that could improve visibility for snowplowing operations. The research, completed in 1999, identified several means for improving visibility for snowplowing operations. However, limited tests were conducted in this project to fully evaluate the merits of these means or the practicalit...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web Document 18: Developing Useful Transit-Related Crime and Incident Data examines methods for collecting, analyzing, and using data on transit-related crime to make decisions on personnel deployment and allocation of security resources.  

TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 21: Improving Transit Security examines the nature and extent of transit crime, effective strategies to combat problem situations, and case studies of specific control practices deemed successful by transit agency professionals (with no distinctions drawn between bus and rail modes) are discussed.

TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 27: Emergency Preparedness for Transit Terrorism provides a useful perspective on mass transit preparedness, offering information on the current practices of selected transit agencies to prevent and respond to terrorism and acts of extreme violence. This synthesis contrasts transit perspectives to those of general service police through...

This synthesis presents information on the design of toll plazas at highway, bridge, tunnel, and other transportation facilities. It will be of interest to toll facility managers and other officials, as well as to consultants concerned with the design, operation, and maintenance of toll facilities. It can also be useful to financial personnel, traffic engineers, planners, and security and enfor...

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web Document 15: Guidelines for the Effective Use of Uniformed Transit Police and Security Personnel develops guidelines for the effective use of uniformed transit police and security personnel.

TRB's National Highway Cooperative Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 213: Effective Use of Park-and-Ride Facilities examines the current status of park-and-ride facilities in the United States. The various aspects of park-and-ride facilities, including conceptual issues, location, design, administration, operation, maintenance, and other supporting elements are addressed in this synthesis. The...

TRB Special Report 197: Transportation of Hazardous Materials: Toward a National Strategy; Vol 1 presents a summary of the 1981 Williamsburg Conference which developed recommendations for a comprehensive national strategy to provide safe and efficient transportation of hazardous materials and wastes in the 1980's. The conference covered regulation, training, emergency response, legal responsibi...