Emerging need to monitor cargo along corridors from port to inland intermodal facility. • Disparate complex systems are used today in the container transport chain leading to a lack of visibility, accountability, efficiency, and security. – Deficiencies in these areas expose the system to attacks such as: • The Trojan horse (the commandeering of a legitimate trading identity to ship an illegitimate or dangerous consignment); • Hijack or theft of goods; • Transport of dangerous goods – Insufficiencies in these areas must be overcome by creating secure trade lanes (or trusted corridors) especially at intermodal points, e.g., at rail/truck transitions – Research and development is underway to realize the vision of trusted corridors. • The proposed research focuses the general themes: advanced communications, networking and information technology applied to creating trusted corridors. • Objective of the research is to provide the basis needed to improve efficiency and security of trade lanes by combining real-time tracking and associated sensor information with trade data exchange information. • Several crucial research questions that must be answered in order to attain this objective, e.g., how to create technologies that will allow continuous monitoring of containers leveraging communications networks as well as trade and logistics data within an environment composed of multiple enterprises, owners, and operators of the infrastructure. – Research is needed to address these questions – Present initial results of experiments with a Transportation Security Sensor Network (TSSN) that can be used to provide visibility into cargo shipments.