Current Status and Activities of the ASCE Transportation Security Committee

1. Current Status and Activities of the ASCE Transportation Security Committee 4th Asia-Pacific Transportation Development Conference April 18-20, 2003Oakland Marriott City Center Hotel, Oakland CA USA Eva Lerner-Lam, Chair, ASCE Transportation Security Committee Charles Barker, P.E., ARM, Vice-Chair, ASCE Transportation Security Committee

2. ASCE Transportation Security Committee • One of four cross-cutting committees of the new Transportation and Development Institute of 130,000 member ASCE • Affiliation with Transportation Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP)

3. Committee Organization

4. Three Task Committees: • Transportation Operations Security • Alain Kornhauser, Ph.D., P.E., Chair • Transportation Infrastructure Security • Simon Carbonell, P.E., Chair • Special Initiatives • Charles Barker, P.E., ARM, Chair

5. Purpose • Bring to bear the knowledge and capabilities of practicing civil engineers, engineering educators, and other experts in the fields of security and transportation. • Serve as a forum for the members of ASCE and the broader civil engineering community for fleshing out the high-priority activities that need to occur to enable civil engineers working in transportation to respond to the post-nine-eleven world.

6. Activities • Gather and disseminate “knowledge and guidance on matters pertaining to transportation security.” • Produce guidance documents, best-practice syntheses, and national web seminars and teleconferences that will provide practicing civil engineers with the strategies and tools they need to plan, design, and engineer our future communities and transportation networks.

7. Goals • Development of rational, realistic transportation security standards, methodologies, and best practices • Assemble the current standards and guidelines governing the design and operation of secure transportation systems and make those standards and guidelines readily available to members of the engineering profession • Identify missing standards and facilitate getting those standards started

8. Participation Encouraged • The Transportation Security Committee and its two constituent task committees already have members whose areas of expertise range from hazardous materials to blast analysis and from ferry terminal design to rail operations. • Members are professionals who are addressing the specific problem of homeland security and how this will interface with the routine planning, design, construction, and operation of transportation assets.

9. Operations Security Task Committee Activities • Homeland Security Warning System • Procedural Security Guidelines Series • Other

10. Infrastructure Security Task Committee Activities • Fixed, ram-resistant vehicle barrier design standards • Engineering Security Guidelines Series • Other

11. Special Initiatives • Web Seminars and National Teleconferences on Transportation Security and Standards • Transportation Security 101 Course • Speakers Bureau • Liaison with other associations, agencies and organizations • Communications (internal and external)

12. Accomplishments • Transportation Security E-Room • Breakout session at TRB Annual Meeting, three guest speakers (USCG, FHWA, Berg Associates) • Public speeches at ASCE Annual Conference, NACOTA/WCTA Conference • Hosted Web Seminar • Liaison with other associations, agencies and organizations

13. Ways to Participate • Membership • Specific Initiatives • Conference planning • Peer Review • Speakers Bureau • Formal and informal alliances/partnerships with other organizations

14. Related Links • The American Society of Civil Engineers: www.asce.org • The Infrastructure Security Partnership: www.tisp.org • The Transportation and Development Institute of ASCE: www.tanddi.org