Transportation Security
DHS and TSA offer parking anti-terrorism training
Terrorists often use parked cars or trucks to carry, conceal or serve as bombs, so the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration are offering a free parking-specific training program for local government officials. ...
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Cameras in city-owned parking decks resolve questions of liability....
Trucking Cargo Security Guidebook Released For Truckers
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) released the ATA Certified Cargo Security Professional Resource Guidebook, which provides a detailed synopsis of motor carrier security from pick up to delivery....
TSA, American Airlines Initiate Paperless Boarding Pass
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and American Airlines have launched a Paperless Boarding Pass pilot program at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)....
TSA Ads Teach Passengers To Accept Stringent Rules
The Transportation Security Administration launched a $1.3 million advertising campaign designed to have air passengers accept stringent travel rules which have often served as sources of disagreement and annoyances at checkpoints. ...
Airplane Liquid Rules Likely To Ease Next Year
Airline passengers will likely be able to carry large bottles of liquids on airplanes some time next year, the Transportation Security Administration says....
DHS Announces Freight, Passenger Rail Systems Security Standards
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proposed regulations aimed at strengthening the security of the nation's freight and passenger rail systems and reducing the risk associated with the transportation of security-sensitive materials....
TSA to Assume Watch List Vetting with Secure Flight Program
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the issuance of the Secure Flight Final Rule, which shifts pre-departure watch list matching responsibilities from individual aircraft operators to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and carries out a key recommendation of the 9/11 Commission....
Report Finds TSA Missteps In Program To Track Security Passes
The agency overseeing security at the nation's airports failed for years to track security passes and uniforms of former employees, creating widespread vulnerability to terrorists, says a government watchdog report obtained by USA TODAY....
TSA Proposes Large Aircraft Security Regulation
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has transmitted to the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would strengthen the security of general aviation by further minimizing the vulnerability of aircraft being used as weapons or to transport dangerous people or materials....
DHS Plans To Improve Visitor Entry Wins Over TIA
The Travel Industry Association (TIA) has recently approved new measures from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to strengthen airport security and streamline passenger screening. ...
Rail Security Operation Prepares AMTRAK, TSA, Law Enforcement
Amtrak Office of Security Strategy and Special Operations (OSSSO), Amtrak Police, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel and officers from approximately 100 commuter rail, state and local police agencies mobilized late last month for the largest joint, simultaneous Northeast rail security operation of its kind....
TSA Officers Don New Uniforms And Badges
New uniforms and badges are another step in the ongoing evolution of TSA, an agency that was created in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001 to federalize airport security....
DHS Scans Incoming Cargo At Airports
The Homeland Security Department will put all incoming air cargo through radiation detectors at the nation's airports to try to prevent terrorists from smuggling radioactive bombs into the United States....
Chicago Airport Gives Surprise Cargo X-ray Inspection Tests
A mobile X-ray machine capable of screening the contents of large cargo containers was recently used for the first time to check trucks entering O'Hare International Airport, authorities said....
More Data To Be Collected From Foreign Travelers
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is studying how best to implement a little-noticed congressional mandate to gather, search and store biometric data from all foreign visitors leaving the country....
TSA To Start Regulating Private Planes
The Transportation Security Administration is planning a massive expansion of aviation security that for the first time will regulate thousands of private planes now flying with no security rules....
Terrorism and Transportation Conference Concludes In New York
More than 700 law enforcement personnel, intelligence professionals and private sector officials attended the Terrorism and Transportation Conference in New York, hosted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)....
TSA Deploys More X-Ray, Imaging And Explosives Detection
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is expanding deployment that will bring Advanced Technology X-ray (AT) and Passenger Imaging to 21 of the nation's busiest airports by the end of 2008....
Security Sweeps Increase For National Rail Company
Beginning this fall, Amtrak rail passengers across the nation will be subject to random security checks and may have their luggage scanned for explosives....
