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Sixty percent of the transit-industry practitioners surveyed rate their transit agency’s efforts to address their major security challenges as somewhat or very successful. However, only 25 percent say they have implemented any security-risk-reduction program that they consider to be exceptional or exemplary.

The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Synthesis 146: Transit Security Preparedness identifies current practices transit systems can use to enhance their security measures and to identify opportunities to apply security technology applications used in other industries to the transit environment.

One size does not fit all in the context of transit security. However, there are common themes in all effective security preparedness approaches.

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Transit Security Preparedness. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25764.

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144 pages |  8.5 x 11 |  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/25764
Chapters skim
Front Matter i-viii
Summary 1-3
Chapter 1 - Introduction 4-5
Chapter 2 - Security Preparedness 6-11
Chapter 3 - Preparedness Strategy and Approaches: Literature Review 12-44
Chapter 4 - Survey Results 45-54
Chapter 5 - Case Examples 55-74
Chapter 6 - Conclusions and Suggestions for Future Research 75-76
Appendix A - Glossary 77-83
Appendix B - List of Participating Transit Agencies 84-85
Appendix C - Survey Questionnaire 86-98
Appendix D - Survey Results 99-122
References and Further Resources 123-131
Endnotes 132-134

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