Transportation Security

The World Economic Forum says the COVID-19 pandemic is a stress test to the resiliency and sustainability of transportation networks and infrastructure.

New York University’s School of Global Public Health is embarking on a series of studies to evaluate the risks and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transit workers.

Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, has supported France with two charter flights for migrants who wanted to return to their country voluntarily. 

The operation also saw the disruption of 19 organized crime groups and the arrest of 407 individuals worldwide.

More than £40,000 has been seized and 32 arrests have been made in a multi-police force operation in the U.K. to tackle drug supply and associated violent crime.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau provided a $851.15 million loan under the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

Transportation systems are on the verge of significant transformation with the development of new and emerging technologies. The Department’s greatest priority is the safe deployment of these technologies.

The MTA is urgently requesting $3.9 billion to get the agency through the end of the year and a total of $10.3 billion through 2021.

New York City Transit has unveiled a brand-new capacity tracking feature on the MYmta app that allows customers to track in real time the number of passengers on an arriving bus.

Although chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) weapons may cause much more damage, explosives can still be the first choice because they are relatively easy to make, transport and use.

U.S. was unprepared for challenge of providing food to the country while trying to protect the health of workers.

Please note that while this guidance does not apply to vessels on short distance routes (e.g. ferries) and fish processing vessels, this guidance can still be useful in managing suspected COVID-19 cases for these platforms.

The additional states meet the metrics to qualify for the travel advisory requiring individuals who have traveled to New York from those states to quarantine for 14 days. 

U.S. Border Patrol agents from the Cotulla Station arrested several individuals on consecutive days who had boarded northbound freight trains north of Laredo.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on July 20 that Trusted Traveler Programs enrollment centers will remain closed until at least September 8, 2020.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, in coordination with the Los Angeles Fire Department and the Port of Los Angeles, offered drive-through COVID-19 testing to hundreds of longshore workers and Pacific Maritime Association employees.