PREVENT

PREVENT focused on enhancing security in public transport by enabling the early detection of terrorists and potentially dangerous objects, tracking suspicious individuals or situations, and coordinating effective responses by security forces.

Europe Policy and Regulation Resilience Safety and Security

Procurements of Innovative, Advanced Systems to Support Security in Public Transport

This focus was shared, from the start, by 22 organisations from 10 countries, public transport operators, security forces, public buyers, and city authorities, of which 12 were consortium partners and 10 were members of the PREVENT User Observatory Group (UOG).

PREVENT implemented a progressive and iterative process to deliver 6 jointly defined Common Security Scenarios that captured threats and vulnerabilities.

It also delivered a vulnerabilities and threats taxonomy directly applicable to the public transport world.

For these scenarios, PREVENT undertook a gap analysis between available solutions, existing standards, on-going research and identified needs, from which it elaborated a multi-dimensional roadmap of innovations and solutions.

The roadmap was an online interactive tool that fed the sustainability of PREVENT’s community.

The highest-priority innovations in the roadmap were selected by practitioners and public buyers to define a Common Challenge.

PREVENT was coordinated by the Engineering Group.

PREVENT has received funding from the. European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 833444.

Key Facts

• Partners: 17
• Duration: May 2019-August 2020
• Budget: €1.9 million