§1155 Security Awareness Program

Summary

The Administrator must create a training program to make surface transportation safer. The program must teach operators and frontline workers how to spot, judge, and respond to suspicious items or actions that could be a threat. It must cover all kinds of surface travel, like public transit, rail, buses, highways, trucks, and pipelines. The Administrator must review current training, find out if other training already exists, spot any gaps, and update the program as risks or terrorist tactics change or gaps are found. The Secretary must keep a national phone number for people to report suspicious activity to the Administration. The Administrator must set up ways to review and follow up on each report and to share reports, when allowed by law, with the right federal, state, local, and tribal agencies. This does not replace 9-1-1 or other training rules in sections 1137, 1167, and 1184. Frontline employee: workers who regularly deal with riders or operations, such as transit drivers, dispatchers, maintenance, station and terminal staff, security, bus and rail crew, and others the Administrator names.