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NCHRP Report 525 Volume 15: Costing Asset Protection: An All-Hazards Guide for Transportation Agencies (CAPTA) (2009)
National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)

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Transportation Research Board. "Appendix E - List of Acronyms." NCHRP Report 525 Volume 15: Costing Asset Protection: An All-Hazards Guide for Transportation Agencies (CAPTA). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2009.

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Front Matter (R1-R11)
Summary (1-4)
Part I - CAPTA Final Report (5-5)
Background (6-6)
Overview of the CAPTA Methodology (7-7)
Basic Definitions (8-8)
Risk Management Taxonomy (9-10)
Assumptions (11-11)
Risk and Consequence (12-12)
Institutional Context for Risk Management (13-14)
Alternative Approaches (15-15)
Development of the CAPTA Methodology (16-21)
Asset Categories (22-22)
Hazards/Threats (23-27)
Consequence Threshold (28-28)
Countermeasures (29-31)
General Countermeasure Attributes (32-33)
Chapter 4 - Results Summary (34-34)
Chapter 5 - Conclusion (35-35)
References (36-36)
Appendix A - Costing Asset Protection: An All Hazards Guide for Transportation Agencies (CAPTA) Test Preparation (37-45)
Appendix B - Summary Report for the CAPTA Pilot Test with Maryland DOT, October 17, 2007 (46-47)
Appendix C - Summary Report for the CAPTA Pilot Test with MBTA, November 16, 2007 (48-49)
Appendix D - Summary Report for the CAPTA Pilot Test with the Virginia DOT, February 13, 2008 (50-51)
Appendix E - List of Acronyms (52-52)
Appendix F - Glossary of Terms Used in CAPTA (53-55)
Appendix G - Recommended Further Reading (56-57)
Part II - CAPTool User Guide (58-58)
Preface (59-61)
Background (62-62)
Overview of the CAPTA Methodology (63-63)
Risk and Consequence (64-64)
Assumptions (65-65)
Basic CAPTool and Expanded CAPTool (66-67)
Example Agency (68-68)
Data Consistency (69-70)
Step 1: Relevant Risks (71-76)
Step 2: Thresholds (77-80)
Step 3: Asset and Asset Class Inventory (81-87)
Step 4: Inventory of High-Consequence Assets/Asset Classes (88-90)
Step 5: Countermeasure Opportunities (91-94)
Step 6: Results Summary (95-97)
Step 1a: Threat/Hazard Vulnerability Table (98-99)
Step 5a: Countermeasure Costs (100-101)
Step 5b: Selection of Additional Countermeasures (102-103)
Step 5c: Countermeasure Filter Selection (104-105)
Conclusion (106-106)
Appendix A - Countermeasure Unit Costs and Descriptions (107-109)
Appendix B - Threshold Equations (110-110)
Appendix C - CAPTool Initial Startup Instructions (111-111)
Appendix D - Countermeasures Dictionary (112-124)
Abbreviations used without definitions in TRB publications (125-125)

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APPENDIX E List of Acronyms AASHTO--American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials ADT--Average Daily Traffic APTA--American Public Transportation Association AREMA--American Railway Engineering and Maintenance Association ASCE--American Society of Civil Engineers AUA--American Underground Construction Association CAPTA--Costing Asset Protection: An All Hazards Guide for Transportation Agencies CAPTool--Costing Asset Protection Tool CCTV--closed circuit television DHS--Department of Homeland Security DOT--Department of Transportation (state) HAZMAT--hazardous material IAEM--International Association of Emergency Managers NCHRP--National Cooperative Highway Research Program NFPA--National Fire Protection Association NIMS--National Incident Management System PEP--Potentially Exposed Population TCRP--Transit Cooperative Research Program U.S.DOT--United States Department of Transportation 53