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Leveraging ITS to Enhance Transit Security

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. Transit in the Nation’s Service. Nearly 10 billion annual passenger trips

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Leveraging ITS to Enhance Transit Security

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  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 Nation’s 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. What’s Important • Knowing our Vulnerabilities • Having Plans (Plan A, Plan B, etc.) • 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… • Keep up the good work! • Leverage human cooperation…to leverage ITS…to enhance transit security • Understand that ITS for transit is not so much “the technology” but “getting data to flow” • Voila! “ITS = Getting data to flow = enhanced transit security”

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