Video Surveillance Uses by Rail Transit Agencies (2011) / Chapter Skim
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• Despite the focus on electronic video surveillance systems in the context of terrorism since September 11, 2001, most passenger rail transit agencies have employed surveillance on their systems since the 1990s, and some as early as the 1970s. • The largest single set of locations where electronic video surveillance cameras were used was stations, station platforms, and shelters.
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Though the reasons for this appear to be primarily cost-related, there are also issues pertaining to ownership of the ROW and adjacent areas; how and by whom surveillance equipment would be installed, monitored, and archived; and a number of other unanswered questions. • Publicizing successful applications of video surveillance may result in diversifying funding sources for system installation and upgrading.
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Although relatively few agencies provide ROW surveillance, system liability concerns -- particularly in crossing-gate areas or accidents involving light rail vehicles and road vehicles, and the possibility of terrorist-inspired vandalism to tracks -- make protecting ROWs an issue to be studied separately from surveillance use in patron and employee areas. There are indications that ROW surveillance will become an issue of increasing focus by transit agencies and by the federal government, including decisions on installing video surveillance along key portions of systems' ROWs.
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A number of transit agencies, including case study agencies, are located in cities that are vastly increasing their video surveillance networks. Studies of regional traffic management plans might assist the transit agencies whose jurisdiction may go beyond the boundaries of a particular municipality to be considered in such plans for surveillance systems, particularly where light rail vehicles share roadway with other vehicles or where grade crossings play a role in overall traffic planning and risk mitigation.
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