More Than Aviation
Fiscal 2006 Budget Request:
With the immediate crisis of meeting aviation security deadlines behind it, TSA has been able to pay more attention to security in the other modes of transportation. The effort focuses on information sharing and vulnerability assessment.
TSA isn't all about aviation. But only a tiny-and shrinking- share of its budget goes to maritime, rail, highway, mass transit and pipeline transportation modes.
$5.6 Billion- Aviation Security 89.6%
- Transportation Security Support 9.8%
- Surface Transportation Security 0.6%
Sourse: TSA
Covering the Bases
MARITIME
- 361 domestic ports, 95 percent of inbound U.S. cargo
- Restore maritime transportation after a port security incident
- Operation Safe Commerce pilot with Customs and Border Protection
- No authority over lead agency, Coast Guard
RAIL
- 122,293 miles of track, 17.4 million freight carloads
- Establishing 100-member security compliance inspection force
- Issued security directives for passenger and commuter rail
- Commuter rail bomb-detection pilot
HIGHWAY
- 94.9 million trucks, 776,550 buses
- Mandated background and fingerprint checks on 3.5 million hazmat-licensed commercial truckers
- Capitalized on trucking industry's Highway Watch
MASS TRANSIT
- 14 million workday riders
- Provides bomb-sniffing dog teams to top 10 mass transit and passenger rail agencies
- Inspects local transit authority security arrangements
PIPELINE
- 2.3 million miles, natural gas and hazardous liquid
- Expects operators to maintain security based on guidance issued in 2002
- Cooperates with Department of Transportation Research and Special Projects Administration, lead safety regulator
Sources: DHS, TSA, FHWA, American Trucking Associations, Government Accountability Office, Congressional Research Service, news reports
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