The rail industry and security operators throughout Europe are to work together to ‘enhance’ security on public transport.
The launch of the SECUR-ED project marks the beginning of a collaboration between rail and security suppliers and operators to give large and medium scale cities in Europe with the means to up their urban transport security.
The European rail industry hopes to give incentives to the global market for security systems in mass transportation.
As Project Co-ordinator Yves Perreal (THALES Security Solutions) points out:
“Societal and legacy concerns dictate a very diverse environment of mass transportation across Europe.
“To overcome it and deploy a consistent set of solutions, SECUR-ED concentrates on aggregating an interoperable mix of technologies and processes, understanding best practices, starting from risk assessment and ending with updated measures including complete training packages.”
SECUR-ED is organised with sub-projects implementing coherent steps towards the goal of a global European approach of mass transportation security: addressing the challenge of mass transportation operators’ adaptive security organisation including strong considerations for their individual operational and local procedures as well as the training of staff.
The buy-in and consensus amongst all relevant actors will also be ensured by several ‘advisory groups’, one for operators and authorities, one for law enforcement groups, one for manufacturers and also one taking into account all ethical matters.
Following this, the effectiveness of the developed global security package will be put to the test in the urban transport systems in additional cities like Brussels, Lisbon, Istanbul, and Bucharest.
