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Transportation Security: Agenda for the 21st Century

NCJ Number
193932
Journal
TR News 211 Dated: November-December 2000 Pages: 3-7
Author(s)
Stephen E. Flynn
Date Published
November 2000
Length
5 pages
Annotation
This report reviewed potential threats to the United States’ transportation system (post-Cold War) and presented a comprehensive transportation security strategy for the 21st Century.
Abstract
Along with open societies, liberalized economies, and new technologies as trademarks of the post-Cold War, there is also the potential for adversaries with the desire to target or exploit America’s transportation system. With this potential threat, a comprehensive strategy is needed to advance security standards. The report begins with a presentation of those sources of threats, concerns, evidence, and a possible threat scenario. To guard the transportation system, a comprehensive approach to transportation security needs to be developed and should involve five initiatives: (1) raising awareness; (2) global cooperation; (3) increased transparency; (4) forming private-public partnerships; and (5) marshaling resources and expertise. Transportation security had become a national concern and has been neglected for too long. There is the need to develop and implement a strategy to ensure that vital transportation and information elements of the Nation’s critical infrastructure are secure in the threat environment of the 21st Century.