Potential terrorist uses of highway-borne hazardous materials.

655862864Final report.PDFTech ReportCA-MTI-10-2981Hazards and emergency operationsHazardsHazardous materialsTerrorismTransportation operationsFreight handlingUnited StatesMineta Transportation InstituteJenkins, Brian MichaelButterworth, Bruce RobertPoe, William T.Reeves, Douglas A.Shrum, Douglas A.Trella, Joseph E.Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy StudiesUnited States. Dept. of Homeland Security. Science and Technology DirectorateUnited States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology AdministrationNTL-ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT-Hazardous Materials TransportationNTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITYUS Transportation CollectionThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has requested that the Mineta Transportation Institute\ue2\u20ac\u2122s National Transportation Security Center of Excellence (MTI NTSCOE) provide any research it has or insights it can provide on the security risks created by the highway transportation of hazardous materials. This request was submitted to MTI/NSTC as a National Transportation Security Center of Excellence. In response, MTI/NTSC reviewed and revised research performed in 2007 and 2008 and assembled a small team of terrorism and emergency-response experts, led by Center Director Brian Michael Jenkins, to report on the risks of terrorists using highway shipments of flammable liquids (e.g., gasoline tankers) to cause casualties anywhere, and ways to reduce those risks. This report has been provided to DHS.The team\ue2\u20ac\u2122s first focus was on surface transportation targets, including highway infrastructure, and also public transportation stations. As a full understanding of these materials, and their use against various targets became revealed, the team shifted with urgency to the far more plentiful targets outside of surface transportation where people gather and can be killed or injured. However, the team is concerned to return to the top of the use of these materials against public transit stations and recommends it as a separate subject for urgent research