Hazmat Truck Security System Pilot Deployment

This paper describes the recently completed HAZMAT Truck Security System (HTSS) national pilot deployment that was created under a contract from the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The broad objectives of the project were to deploy a standards-based system that would leverage existing commercial HAZMAT truck tracking capabilities and provide TSA with a centralized monitoring and security alert response capability for extreme HAZMAT shipments on the roads across the United States. The pilot deployment was successfully integrated and tested with a representative sample of HAZMAT carriers and commercial truck tracking vendors. The deployment was operational for 1.5 years. The authors describe the pilot deployment and the lessons learned. A commercial risk assessment tool was integrated with the system and provided a risk-score for each HAZMAT shipment event and alert. The authors conclude that the pilot deployment provided a base that could be evaluated for full scale deployment and that establishes a foundation for furthering the government and industry partnership already in place.