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• Effects of Catastrophic Events on Transportation System Management and Operations, Northridge Earthquake - January 17, 1994

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  "This report documents the actions taken by transportation agencies in response to the earthquake in Northridge, California on January 17, 1994 [...]. The findings documented in this report are a result of a detailed literature search on Northridge lessons learned."

  United States. Department of Transportation

  2002-04-22
• Research and Special Programs Administration: Strategic Plan

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  This strategic plan is The Research and Special Programs Administration's (RSPA) commitment to the American people to make their lives better. The plan targets safety and environmental dangers through risk-based management and by building incentive programs to promote compliance with our regulations. RSPA also pledges an advanced strategy to ensure that science and technology support the achievement of the nation's transportation goals. With the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center's distinct system-wide perspective, the plan addresses the many national transportation challenges.

  United States. Department of Transportation

  1998-08
• Intelligent Transportation Systems Public Safety Program: Opportunities for Technological Advancement in Detecting, Responding, and Recovering from Community Emergencies

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  During the summer and fall of 2000, a group of high level public safety and transportation officials were brought together by the US Department of Transportations (USDOT) Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program to consider the interaction between transportation and public safety and discuss opportunities for using new technologies to enhance community safety. This report presents some important ideas that came out of this discussion and describes a new Federal initiative, the ITS Public Safety Program, which is taking shape to put these concepts into action.

  United States. Department of Transportation

  2001
• Assessment of the U. S. Marine Transportation System: A Report to Congress

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  The U.S. Marine Transportation System (MTS) consists of waterways, ports and their intermodal connections, vessels, vehicles, and system users. Each component is a complex system within itself and is closely linked with the other components. It is primarily an aggregation of State, local, or privately owned facilities and private companies. As with the U.S. economy as a whole, decision making and investment are primarily driven by the marketplace. In addition, national, State, and local governments participate in the management, financing, and operation of the MTS. More than 1,000 harbor channels and 25,000 miles of inland, intracoastal, and coastal waterways in the United States serve over 300 ports, with more than 3,700 terminals that handle passenger and cargo movements. The waterways and ports link to 152,000 miles of rail, 460,000 miles of pipelines, and 45,000 miles of interstate highways. Vessels and vehicles transport goods and people through the system. The MTS also contains shipyards and repair facilities crucial to maritime activity. As the world's leading maritime and trading nation, the United States relies on an efficient and effective MTS to maintain its role as a global power. The MTS provides American businesses with competitive access to suppliers and markets in an increasingly global economy. The MTS transports people to work; provides them with recreation and vacation opportunities; puts food on their tables; and delivers many of the items they need in their professional and personal lives. Within the United States, the MTS provides a cost-effective means for moving major bulk commodities, such as grain, coal, and petroleum. It is a key element of State and local government economic development and job-creation efforts and the source of profits for private companies. With its vast resources and access, the MTS is an essential element in maintaining economic competitiveness and national security.

  United States. Department of Transportation

  1999-09
• Meeting the Airport Security Challenge: Report of the Secretary's Rapid Response Team on Airport Security

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  The news brief issued by the Department of Transportation (DOT) provides steps the President may wish to consider in his proposal for increased safety at US airports. The Rapid Response Team concluded that: passenger screening must be placed under control of a federal law enforcement agency; relevant law enforcement and intelligence information must be shared with aviation security; new technologies must be put in place; passenger screening and other security measures should be strengthened to ensure safety to air travelers; and establish a voluntary pre-screening program along with "smart" credentials to facilitate the processing of air travelers.

  United States. Department of Transportation

  2001-10-01
• DOT Taps Private Industry for Help in Building Transportation Security Administration

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  This document announces the Department of Transportation's formation of a senior advisor program to bring private sector best practices to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Under this program executives from some of the nation's leading firms will be loaned to the TSA to help establish the new agency. These executives will bring a wide range of private sector expertise in areas including procurement, recruiting, metrics and quality, operations and process modeling, training and development, organization design and effectiveness.

  United States. Department of Transportation

  2002-01-16
• Landmark Aviation Security Legislation Agreement Reached by House-Senate Conference Committee

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  This press release announces a landmark aviation security package that will create a federalized airport screening system and insure 100 percent baggage screening at all of the nation's airports. The legislation creates a Transportation Ssecurity Administration within the Department of Transportation that is responsible for transportation security, including aviation. U.S. House Tranportation Committee chairman Don Young announces, "This legislation will provide the highests degree of aviation security in our nation's history."

  United States. Department of Transportation

  2001-11-15
• U.S. Department of Transportation Strategic Plan 1999-2000

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  "The Strategic Plan for Region III builds upon the existing FTA Strategic Plan. It establishes a performance plan of action for the region that it will pursue for the period 1999 through 2002. The Plan is time-consistent with the FTA Plan and implements the Vision Statement, People Moving People Into America's Future, at a regional level. In order to develop the Region III Strategic Plan, all 21 staff members joined one of five working groups established to coincide with the five FTA strategic goals listed below. Prior to the commencement of work by the teams, a strategic plan training session was conducted. Following the training each team began working on its specific strategic goal. Over a period of weeks the teams met regularly to develop performance goals and performance measures for each outcome goal. The teams deliberated until a consensus was reached. What is presented herein is the successful culmination of that effort."

  United States. Department of Transportation

  1999
• Protecting Our Transportation Systems: An Information Security Awareness Overview

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  Surface transportation systems increasingly rely on a growing number of sensing, computing, and communications capabilities -- collectively known as information technologies. The application of these technologies to our transportation infrastructure has been termed Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Over the past several years, ITS have clearly demonstrated their ability to improve the efficiency of moving goods and people, improve the safety of our transportation system, and provide the public with information on alternative modes of travel. With the growing reliance on information systems within the global economy, it has become necessary to protect the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of information. Several types of protection -- such as automatic teller machine (ATM) PINs -- have already been integrated into our society and become part of our everyday lives. The military, banking, health-care, and electronic-commerce industries have pioneered this protection effort and have set a precedent for other industries now implementing information systems. As the surface transportation industry enters the information era through the development and deployment of ITS, there is a growing need to apply appropriate information security policies and practices

  United States. Department of Transportation

  1997-10
• Port Security: A National Planning Guide

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  Port Security: A National Planning Guide has been produced for the purpose of conveying the United States Department of Transportation's policy perspective on port security to the maritime community. This guide provides an overview of the essential aspects of port security and identifies many of the challenges facing ports. It is also intended to provide local governments and the commercial maritime industry with a common basis upon which to establish port security standards and the outcomes expected from meeting those standards. This guide is intended to be the first document in a series to be produced through the cooperative efforts of the maritime industry and the Federal government. The guide and subsequent technical manuals are intended to be usable by port directors or general managers, the directors of port security, and the officers of port security departments in fulfilling their responsibilities toward the development of an effective port security program. This can enhance the ability of port security managers to execute their risk management responsibilities and to measure the impact and effectiveness of the security measures implemented in the port. These manuals are expected to address such topics as: Developing and Implementing a Security Plan, Security Survey and Risk Assessment, Physical Security and Access Control, Information Security, Personnel Security, Maritime Terrorism, Drug Smuggling, Stowaways and Alien Smuggling, Roles/Responsibilities/Legal Authorities of Port Agencies, Sea Robbery, Cargo Security and Hazardous Materials, Intelligence. This guide and its subsequent technical manuals are intended to be dynamic, and therefore flexible enough to be revised so that they may remain current and useful.

  United States. Department of Transportation

  United States. Maritime Administration

  1997
• Maritime Security Report [April 1996]

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  This quarterly report on maritime security deals with Cargo Theft, Stowaways and finally port security in Vietnam. United States' port cities and their hinterland areas are experiencing dramatic increases in the theft and in-transit hijacking of entire containers and trailers. For example: Cargo theft incidents are occurring most frequently in Florida, California, New York, and New Jersey; Industry estimates cargo theft losses in U.S. exceed $10 billion and average one-half million dollars per incident, and; FBI assesses the cargo theft problem to constitute a serious threat to the flow of commerce in the United States. The risk for ports and ocean carriers is being elevated by the forced migration of millions of people worldwide, now classified as refugees. Adding to that risk is the increased use of containers in organized criminal conspiracies to smuggle transnational asylum seekers to the West. Consequences include: Stowaways disrupt service, cause direct costs and revenue losses for container vessel operators, and jeopardize international commerce, and; Stowaways have posed a threat to crew and safe operation of the ship, and often have died during the voyage. The ports of Vietnam are vulnerable to being used by sophisticated smuggling schemes which rely on concealment of narcotics in shipments of commercial containerized maritime trade. They are utilizing front companies or exploiting legitimate shippers in the process. Also: Southeast Asia's explosive growth in containerized maritime trade is causing port congestion and inefficiencies exploited by smugglers, and; Removal of customs restrictions on cross-border trade, proposed by commercial interests, will create more opportunities for smugglers.

  United States. Department of Transportation

  1996-04
• Maritime Security Report [January 1997]

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  This issue of the Maritime Security Report focus on the increased drug smuggling via the Caribbean, Global business and Government cooperation to stem maritime cargo crimes, and the Department of Transportation's policy on port security. U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials assert that the use of legitimate commercial maritime freight containers by smugglers to conceal large shipments of cocaine is a fact supportable by many investigations and drug seizures. According to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), smuggling via commercial vessel is the primary maritime method for shipping drugs through the Caribbean transit zone. Because of the relatively low risk to the trafficking organizations, this cocaine smuggling method and pattern is likely to continue.--Vulnerabilities in the international commercial shipping cycle of freight containers are being exploited by transnational organized crime groups to commit a variety of cargo related crimes. Companies at all levels of the shipping cycle are often made unwitting accomplices in cargo related crimes, such as shipments of illegal narcotics and stolen goods, customs and shipping frauds, and money laundering. Victimized firms are sustaining significant financial losses, erosion of operating integrity, and diminished corporate reputation. Increased cooperative efforts between governments and the maritime industry are underway to reduce the international freight transportation systems vulnerabilities to exploitation by organized criminal enterprises.--Port Security: A National Planning Guide is the first document in a series that will include technical manuals on maritime security. These technical manuals will be produced through cooperative efforts of the U.S. Government and the commercial maritime industry.

  United States. Department of Transportation

  1997-01
• Maritime Security Report [January 1996]

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  The Maritime Security Report is an unclassified quarterly publication prepared to inform the Commercial Maritime Industry, Senior Maritime Administration officials, the Secretary of Transportation's Office of Intelligence and Security, and the Federal Ad Hoc Working Group on Maritime Security Awareness. The report focuses on international criminal activity and security issues which could pose a threat to U.S. commercial maritime interests and the movement of U.S. civilian cargoes in foreign trade. The global nature of U.S. trade means that U.S.-flag ocean carriers call ports in nearly every country, and cargoes owned by U.S. interests may be embarked on ocean vessels of any flag or in any port worldwide. U.S. commercial maritime interests, therefore, can be jeopardized worldwide by a broad range of criminal activities, adversely affecting their competitiveness. The Maritime Security Report is intended to increase awareness of the scope and severity of economic crime affecting U.S. maritime commerce. The Maritime Administration expects increased awareness to contribute toward deterring criminal exploitation of the maritime transportation system, its users and providers. This particular report on maritime transportation security focuses on problems relating to Columbia and Brazil.

  United States. Department of Transportation

  1996-01
• Maritime Security Report [September 1996]

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  This issue of the Maritime Security Report deals with Anti-Terrorism regulations set forth by the U.S. Coast Guard. The U.S. Coast Guard has published "Security for Passenger Vessels and Passenger Terminals", an Interim Rule pertaining to security regulations and inspection procedures for passenger vessels and terminals. Also published is Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular 3-96 which provides guidance regarding the implementation of the Interim Rule. The Interim Rule includes: Requiring submission of vessel and terminal security plans to the Coast Guard for examination; Incorporating, by reference, of International Maritime Organization measures into the Interim Rule, and; Defining the roles and responsibilities of the vessel and terminal security officers.

  United States. Department of Transportation

  1996-09
• 2004 Emergency Response Guidebook: A Guidebook for First Responders during the Initial Phase of a Dangerous Goods/Hazardous Materials Incident

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  The Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG2004) was developed jointly by the US Department of Transportation, Transport Canada, and the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation of Mexico (SCT) for use by firefighters, police, and other emergency services personnel who may be the first to arrive at the scene of a transportation incident involving a hazardous material. It is primarily a guide to aid first responders in (1) quickly identifying the specific or generic classification of the material(s) involved in the incident, and (2) protecting themselves and the general public during this initial response phase of the incident. The ERG is updated every three to four years to accommodate new products and technology. The next version is scheduled for 2008.

  United States. Department of Transportation

  2004
• Information Security Program: Department of Transportation [October 1, 2004]

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  "This report presents the results of an audit of the information security program at the Department of Transportation (DOT). Responding to the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, the audit objectives were to (1) assess DOT's progress in correcting weaknesses identified in last year's FISMA review, and (2) provide input to DOT's annual FISMA report by answering questions specified by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). FISMA requires Federal agencies to identify and provide security protections commensurate with the risk and magnitude of harm resulting from the loss of, misuse of, unauthorized access to, or modification of information collected or maintained by or on behalf of an agency. Because DOT maintains one of the largest portfolios of information technology (IT) investments of Federal civilian agencies, it is critical that DOT protects its systems and sensitive data. In FY 2004, DOT's information technology budget totaled about $2.7 billion."

  United States. Department of Transportation

  2004-10-01
• Balancing Mobility and Security

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  "Is there an inexorable tradeoff between transportation mobility and security? Can we attain one only at the expense of the other? Or can both mobility and security be achieved as beneficial byproducts of advanced technologies embedded in the transportation network? This paper reviews three common measures of mobility - accessibility, reliability, and affordability - and the methods used to assess and mitigate security risks, and suggests that at the nexus between security and mobility there are technologies that are common to both, with potential synergistic effects. The paper maintains that the associated tradeoffs are not between security and mobility, but rather between security and privacy, security and redundancy, and security and higher out-of-pocket costs to users...This symposium on "Balancing Security and Mobility" is an attempt to take steps towards identifying the criteria for evaluating the public and private choices between competing security and mobility improvements and the concomitant costs and benefits."

  United States. Department of Transportation

  Barami, Bahar

  2004-05-06
• Cleanup and Recovery of Passenger Transportation Facilities After a Bio-Attack

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  "A bio-terror attack against transportation targets or delivered via transportation vehicles is deemed to be a credible and potentially very damaging threat to the nation. Of special concern is the release of a bio-agent in crowded passenger terminals, many of which are multi-modal, linking aviation with rail, transit, water ferries, taxis, and adjacent parking garages. Hence, the public health consequences of a bio-attack on a major airport must consider not only the potential exposures of employees and passengers, but also the threat of rapid and large-scale contaminant dispersal via people, baggage, and vehicles. Perhaps equally important is the potential for huge economic losses resulting from the long-term closure of an airport or major intermodal terminal, and repercussions for wider regional, national, and international transportation networks. Considerable uncertainty remains in regard to forecasting downstream costs: for example, the cleanup and recovery of anthrax- contaminated facilities, from a few mailed letters identifying the agent, has proven to be lengthy, difficult and costly."

  United States. Department of Transportation

  Brecher, Aviva

  2004-03-30
• Market Trends in Homeland Security Technologies

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  "This paper reviews the dimensions of the homeland security (HS) technology markets, identifies their application areas and the risks they are designed to mitigate, and asks: How well have these technologies performed - in the marketplace and in the field - and how are emerging technologies in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology likely to transform these markets in the near future?" The paper includes sections addressing the size of markets, application areas, market performance, and emerging new markets.

  United States. Department of Transportation

  Barami, Bahar

  2004-04-22
• Evolution of Dual Use Applications in the Enhanced Traffic Management System (ETMS)

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  "In the early 1970s, it was already becoming obvious that a cadre of highly trained specialists distributed around the country and using RADAR could not adequately manage air traffic. From that time until now, the aviation community has relied on a growing body of prediction, planning, optimization and management techniques known as Air Traffic Management. These techniques rely on advanced automation, and the primary system providing this automation is the Enhanced Traffic Management System or ETMS." This paper traces the evolution of dual use applications in the ETMS. Topics include NORAD and the ETMS, Aircraft Situation Display to Industry (ASDI), and the Collaborative Decision-Making (CDM) Initiative.

  United States. Department of Transportation

  Wright, Richard D.

  2004-04-19
• 2005 ITS/Operations Resource Guide

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  "Each of the following nine sections of the 2005 ITS/Operations Resource Guide is separated by the title for that section of resource listings. An icon appears with each resource listing to indicate the type of media in which it is available. These categories are Points of Contact; Software Tools and Databases; Training, Workshops, and Seminars; Videos; Websites; and Documents. The title of each resource appears with each icon. If the resource is a publication, the publication number and date are given, which is helpful when ordering hardcopies. After a brief descriptive paragraph, the cost, if there is any, is given, followed by information about how the resource can be accessed. All documents with an Electronic Document Library number (EDL#) can be downloaded in two ways: 1. directly from the website address listed, or 2. by accessing the main EDL website at http://www.its.dot.gov/welcome.htm, selecting Profile Search, and searching for the document number. To order a hardcopy, the telephone number, fax number, and/ or email address is provided."

  United States. Department of Transportation

  2005
• Rails-with-Trails: Lessons Learned

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  "This report offers conclusions about the lessons learned in the development, construction, and operation of rails-with-trails so that railroad companies, trail developers, and others can benefit from the history of trails in existence today. 'Rail-with-trail' (RWT) describes any shared use path or trail located on or directly adjacent to an active railroad corridor. About 65 RWTs encompass 385 km (239 mi) in 30 States today. These trails are located adjacent to active rail lines ranging from a few slow-moving short-haul freight trains weekly, to high-frequency Amtrak trains traveling as fast as 225 km/h (140 mi/h). Dozens of RWTs are proposed or planned. While most are located on public lands leased to private railroads, many are on privately owned railroad property. Hundreds of kilometers of RWTs traverse Western Australia, Canada, and Europe."

  United States. Department of Transportation

  2002-08
• High Speed Ferry and Coastwise Vessels: Assessment of a New York/Boston Service

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  "This report summarizes Phase IV (FY 02) of the Coastal Shipping project conducted by the National Ports and Waterways Institute (NPWI), University of New Orleans. This research phase is a direct continuation of previous research especially of Phase III (FY 00). Phase III research included a review of recent developments regarding coastal shipping in the US and abroad; the re-definition of the envisioned coastal system; an assessment of three designs of prospective high-speed coastal ferries; and a conceptual design of a coastal terminal, along with review of potential sites. Phase III report also included data on traffic flows in the North Atlantic, based on FHWA data. Phase III research was based, in part, on earlier Phase II research, which was concerned with the coastal system concept, especially with types of freight to be served, operational and cost parameters of the system and military applications. The entire research effort of coastal shipping has been conducted under the guidance of an Advisory Board consisting of representatives from ports, shipping lines, shipyards, military and governmental agencies. The findings of Phase II and Phase III were presented and discussed in workshops organized by MarAd and NPWI. Likewise, the findings of Phase IV (this phase) will be presented in a similar workshop."

  United States. Department of Transportation

  2003-05
• Next Generation 9-11

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  "The Nation's current 9-1-1 system is designed around telephone technology and cannot handle the text, data, images and video that are increasingly common in personal communications and critical to future transportation safety and mobility advances. The Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1) initiative will establish the foundation for public emergency communications services in a wireless mobile society."

  United States. Department of Transportation

  2005
• Maritime Security Report [August 1995]

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  The Maritime Security Report is an unclassified quarterly publication prepared to inform the commercial maritime industry, senior Maritime Administration officials, the Secretary of Transportation's Office of Intelligence and Security, and the Federal Ad Hoc Working Group On Maritime Security Awareness. The report focuses on international criminal activity and security issues which could pose a threat to U.S. commercial maritime interests and the movement of U.S. civilian cargoes in foreign trade. The global nature of U.S. trade means that U.S.-flag ocean carriers call ports in nearly every country, and cargoes owned by U.S. interests may be embarked on ocean vessels of any flag or in any port worldwide. U.S. commercial maritime interests, therefore, can be jeopardized worldwide by a broad range of criminal activities, adversely affecting their competitiveness. The Maritime Security Report is intended to increase awareness of the scope and severity of economic crime affecting U.S. maritime commerce. Contents in this report include the following titles: August 1995: TERRORISM--"Middle Eastern Terrorist Group May be Targeting American Assets or Interests in Latin America"; GLOBAL--"Data Transmissions from Seacontainers/Trailers via Satellite Offer Potential for Combating Cargo Theft"; June 1995: UNITED STATES--"Hijackers of Southern Pacific Trains Jeopardizing West Coast Seacontainers"; BRAZIL--"Piracy Problem Moves Brazilian President to Form a Federal/State Multi-Agency Task Force"; PANAMA--"Cocaine Seizures Double at Panama's Colon Free Zone and Associated Ports during 1994"; May 1995: PIRACY--"Regional Increases in Piracy Attacks may Forecast a Worldwide Upsurge in Incidents for 1995"; GUATEMALA--"Truck Hijackings Drive Intermodal Ocean Carriers to Cast Off Inland Transport Job to Shippers"; MARITIME FRUAD--"False Registration of Ships Used by Asian Crime Gangs in Theft of Entire Cargoes"; April 1995: UNITED STATES--"Cargo Theft Loss Leaders: The Ports of Miami Los Angeles, NY/NJ, and Long Beach"; SOUTHEAST ASIA--"Ethnic Chinese Crime Syndicates Prefer Port Cities and Containerized Heroin Exports"; PANAMA--"Weapons Smuggled to Colombian Guerillas in Commercial Containers via Panamanian Ports"; BRAZIL--"Harbor Piracy Incidents Elevate Port Security to the Agenda of the Brazilian President"; March 1995: COLOMBIA--"Port Privatization Boosts Profits, Productivity, and Port Concerns"; ECUADOR--"More Stowaways? Conflict Creates 7,500 Refugees and 50,000 Unemployed"; NIGERIA--"Maritime Fraud Funds Nigerian Insurers"; and CHILE--"Counternarcotics Policy with the United States".

  United States. Department of Transportation

  1995-08
• Port Risk Management & Insurance Guidebook

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  "The overall objective of the Guidebook is to provide ports with the basic skills and information needed to establish and maintain appropriate and cost-effective insurance and risk management programs. It is designed to serve as a proactively 'how-to' manual and educational reference text. While it is written from a port's point of view and geared toward the basics of insurance and risk management, experienced port risk managers and other organizations in the industry should find it valuable also."

  United States. Department of Transportation

  1998-09
• Securing the Roads: US Actions to Enhance Surface Transportation Security

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  "In the months following the terrorist acts of 11 September, intense effort has been focused on understanding the state of security of travel on the nation's roadways, and on improving the existing level of security. These efforts have taken place within and across modes and between agencies that had not previously had reasons to work together. The activity has encompassed agencies at federal, state, and local levels, as well as the private sector, academia, and many associations supporting these participants. Progress has been significant but not particularly visible. This article describes some of the effort, the findings, and the results."

  United States. Department of Transportation

  Pearce, Vince

  2002
• Effects of Catastrophic Events on Transportation Systems Management and Operations: Howard Street Tunnel Fire, Baltimore City, Maryland, July 18, 2001

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  "The report documents the actions taken by emergency response and transportation agencies in response to the July 18, 2001 CSX freight train derailment and fire in the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore, Maryland. The report is part of a larger effort to examine the impacts of catastrophic events on transportation system facilities and services. The creation of a detailed chronology of events in Baltimore, MD, a literature search, and interviews of key personnel involved in transportation operations decision-making on July 18 produced the findings documented in this report."

  United States. Department of Transportation

  Carter, Mark R.; Howard, Mark P.

  2002-07
• Intelligent Transportation System Field Operational Test Cross-Cutting Study: Hazardous Material Incident Response

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  "Hazardous Materials Incident Response Cross-Cutting report summarizes and interprets the results of three Field Operational Tests (FOTs) that are evaluating systems for improving the accuracy and availability of HazMat information provided to emergency response personnel. The FOTs considered in this report are: Tranzit Express Systems, Tranzit Express Systems II and Operation Response. The report findings are organized in the categories of impact, user response, technical lessons learned, institutional challenges and resolutions, and cost to implement. The FOTs from which this report was drawn did not specifically address technical performance issues. The focus was on anecdotal evidence. The tests revealed several institutional challenges in the areas of motor carrier participation, privacy and enforcement, and jurisdictional concerns. This report highlights the successes and challenges that these tests encountered while attempting to develop the technologies appropriate for responding to HazMat incidents."

  United States. Department of Transportation

  Millar, David B.; Belella, Paul

  1998-09
• Sharing Resources: Coordinating Response - Deploying and Operating Incident Management Systems

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  This brochure describes how cost-effective incident management technologies can be in handling traffic congestion. Embedded sensors, closed circuit television cameras, and variable message signs are examples of existing technologies that can be enhanced by incident management systems. The need for interagency cooperation is seen as a critical issue for incident management systems.

  United States. Department of Transportation

  1999