CAIT
RUTGERS
Safety and Security of our Critical
Infrastructure
By:
Ali Maher
Director, CAIT
Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation
Civil &Environmental Engineering
CANADA
Montreal
Ottawa
Philadelphia
Houlton, ME
Saint Albans, VT
Toronto
Ogdensburg, NY
Halifax
Detroit, MI
Chicago, IL
Buffalo, NY
Cleveland, OH
75 mile
Boston
200 mile
Baltimore
TEUs by Zipcode
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0 - 6000
6000 - 29000
29000 - 119000
119000 - 594000
300 mile
400 mile
ATLANTIC OCEAN
Port of NY & NJ
Rutgers/CAIT
Source : Moffatt and Nichol Engineers, Based on adjusted PIERS data
Port of NY/NJ moves $90 Billion in Cargo / year
Transportation Infrastructure of New Jersey
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Lifeline of State’s Economy
More than 6000 bridges and 35000 miles of
roadways
Major aviation, rail and lifeline hub for the
region
Heavily congested corridor environment
Excellent laboratory for implementation of new
ideas
CAIT
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NJ Transportation Facts
Index
New
Jersey
National NJ/National
Drivers per Mile of
Road
161
48
3.3
Vehicles per Mile of
Roads
178
54
3.3
Bridges / Square Mile
32
3
10.4
% Urban Land
854
161
5.3
1,134
77
14.7
Population / Square
Mile
Category
Roads
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Bridges
MassTransit
Grade
D+
C
C-
Transportation Infrastructure
of New Jersey
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New Jersey (Gov. Whitman’s 1998 plan, NJ FIRST).
$30 billion, 12-year transportation vision.
– “FIX IT FIRST”
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Eliminate bridge deficiencies on national highways.
Repair deficient state highways.
Resolve flooded state road problems.
– “PLAN TODAY”
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CAIT
Construct missing highway links.
Develop intermodal connections.
Construct and complete light rail lines.
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URS Greiner Inc.
3M Products
CAMTEA
ITE
Ford Motor Co.
Advanced Technology Concepts
Stantec Inc.
McLaren Engineering Group
Turner Construction
ATC, Inc.
Advanced Infrastructure Design
Inc.
Fredrick Harris Inc.
Raython Transportation
Parsons Brinkerhoff
L-3 Communications
TSA-Advet
Future Fuels Consulting
MTS Systems
Hogentogler Inc.
Advanced Power Assoc.
H-Power Inc.
Millennium Cell Inc.
Neocon Inc.
Recon Controls Inc.
Messer
W.L. Gore & Assoc.
Acentech Inc.
Critical Infrastructure Sectors
Future Research Challenges
The Protection Challenge (Transportation)
Aviation
5000 public airports
Passenger Rail and
Railroads
120,000 miles of major railroads
Highways, Trucking and
Busing
590,000 highway bridges
Pipelines
2 million miles of pipelines
Maritime
300 inland/coastal ports
Mass Transit
500 major urban public transit
operators
National Strategy for the Physical Protection
of Critical Infrastructure and Key Assets, the Strategy, February 2003
Cross-sector Security Initiatives
 Planning and Resource Allocation
 Information Sharing and Warnings
 Personnel Survey, Building Human Capital and
Awareness
 Technology and Research & Development
 Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis
Technology and Research & Development
 Coordinate Public-Private security R&D
 Coordinate standards for compatibility of
communication systems
 Explore methods to authenticate and verify
personnel identity
 Improve technical surveillance, monitoring and
detection capabilities
 Condition monitoring of bridges, tunnels and transit stations
 Detection of CBR residues in transportation corridors
 Integration of sensor information with legacy IMS
RESEARCH AREAS AT CAIT
RESEARCH AREAS AT CAIT
(Cont’d)
RESEARCH AREAS AT CAIT
(Cont’d)
Selected Collaborative Projects Within SOE
 Past collaboration
Optical Fiber Stress and Strain Sensors (with Prof.
Sigel) – NSF sponsored
Optical Fiber Chemical sensors (with Prof. Sigel) –
EPA sponsored
Piezo-electric ceramic composite WIM (with Prof.
Safari) – FHWA sponsored
 Pending and Future Collaboration
Integrated piezo-electric ceramic composite
structural sensors (both active and passive
sensors)
Advanced chemical sensors (in-situ, real-time)
Sensors for chemical, biological residues
Integration into legacy incident management
systems
New Project Funded by NSF, “Security of
Transportation Infrastructures against Biohazards”