Ensuring a Secure Global Transport System

Workshop, Leipzig, 27 May 2009

The workshop will examine the potential of technology for improving security and how risk management techniques might improve security and the cost effectiveness of security measures. It will also discuss the governance of security policy making; measuring the success and balancing accountability with the need for flexibility in response to the evolving terrorist threat.

The workshop will focus on security in aviation and in maritime container transport and freight supply chains. The impacts and potential of container scanning and tracking will be examined in the context of overall supply chain security management and certification. Complementarities between different approaches and the potential for multilateral policies to shape the security landscape in the future will be explored.

Workshop Outline

Workshop Conclusions  -  also available in Russian

Background Documents

• Maritime Transport Security Regulation: Policies, Probabilities and Practicalities  -- Slides
  David WIDDOWSON and Stephen HOLLOWAY, University of Canberra, Australia

• Towards Risk-Based Aviation Security Policy  --  Slides
  Robert W. POOLE Jr., Reason Foundation

• Security, Risk Perception and Costs-Benefit Analysis
  Summary and Conclusions of Round Table, 11-12 December 2008, Paris
  JTRC Discussion Paper No.2009-6

• Container Transport Security Across Modes
  ECMT, 2005