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Suggested Citation:"Overview." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Mainstreaming Transportation Hazards and Security Risk Management: CAPTA Update and Implementation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24812.
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1  Overview NATIONAL COOPERATIVE HIGHWAY RESEARCH PROGRAM  (NCHRP) REPORT 525, VOLUME 3:  INCORPORATING  SECURITY  INTO THE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING PROCESS (2009) documented a methodology and provided  a convenient planning tool for a top‐down estimation of both capital and operating budget implications  of measures intended to reduce all‐hazards risks to locally acceptable levels.  The tool was designed to  support transportation agency infrastructure investment decisions.  Because of significant changes in national guidance for transportation planning and infrastructure design  processes  since CAPTA was  first  released,  an update  to  the baseline data  in  the CAPTool model was  needed to re‐align the model with current planning and design.  Also the CAPTA approach was in need  of simplification and repackaging to encourage broader  interest and adoption and overcome obstacles  to use of the tool.    The  essence  of  the  Transportation  Research  Board’s  (TRB) NCHRP  Project  20‐59(50) Mainstreaming  Transportation Hazards and Security Risk Management: CAPTA Update and  Implementation was  to  ensure that CAPTA and CAPTool could provide added value to users through identifying needs of current  and potential users and by determining what improvements and enhancements to CAPTA and CAPTool  would answer  these needs.   Moreover,  the effort was designed  to assist  current and potential users  through  effective  documentation,  guidance,  and  outreach  efforts,  in  making  well‐informed  capital  investment decisions  that would  lead  to  less  costly  consequences and greater  resilience when  facing  natural  events  and  unintentional  and  intentional  human‐caused  events  that  put  transportation  infrastructure and system users at risk.  The  research  objectives were:  to  (1)  update  and  enhance  the  CAPTA methodology  and  CAPTool  for  realistic  costing  and  (2)  to  create  and  apply  an  implementation  plan  to  inform  state  transportation  agencies and other  stakeholders of  the updated products. This  section describes  the  research  team’s  understanding of the key issues and research plan.    The research effort focused on  identifying means to  improve or enhance the CAPTA methodology and  CAPTool  to make  it more valuable  to state DOTs and other organizations and  to develop an outreach  plan  to encourage  its use.   The  results,  findings, and proposed  improvements and enhancements are  based  on  and  respond  to what  the  research  team  learned  from  a  review  of  current  guidance  and  practices  in  state  DOTs,  an  informal  poll  of  the  transportation  community,  and  a  selected  set  of  interviews with key industry practitioners.   The  research  team  recognizes  that  mainstreaming  the  CAPTA  methodology  and  CAPTool  in  transportation agencies today poses a challenge. The research effort was focused on identifying means  to  incorporate CAPTA  into  the planning state DOTs and other  transportation‐related organizations are  currently doing or performing.  

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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 233: Mainstreaming Transportation Hazards and Security Risk Management: CAPTA Update and Implementation provides an update and enhancement of the CAPTA methodology and CAPTool for realistic costing. The suite of materials produced include a quick start guide to use the CAPTool, as well as a dataset populated with example data. The project includes a PowerPoint presentation to help inform stakeholders about the updated products.

The report is related to information produced for the NCHRP Report 525 Volume 3: Incorporating Security into the Transportation Planning Process.

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