Additional actions that the Department is taking to combat human trafficking include:
- The Department’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration posted a leadership video on social media this month encouraging vehicle manufacturers to bolster their counter-trafficking efforts.
- Operating Administrations across DOT are using social media to encourage multimodal transportation stakeholders to strengthen their counter-trafficking efforts.
- The Department’s Counter-Trafficking Initiative reached hundreds of transportation stakeholders and counter-trafficking professionals this month through in-person events at the 104th National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting and the 2025 Anti-Trafficking Symposium, hosted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Center for Counter Human Trafficking. These sessions highlighted recommendations and best practices for the transportation sector from the ACHT 2024 report and promoted the joint DOT/DHS Blue Lightning Initiative (BLI).
- BLI provided educational sessions for airport and airline stakeholders during the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority’s (MWAA) Combating Human Trafficking in Aviation event. MWAA received second place in last year’s Combating Human Trafficking in Transportation Impact Award for their proposed community-wide approach to combating human trafficking. In coordination with DOT’s Federal Aviation Administration, BLI will also host two trainings this month for airport and airline personnel at Tocumen International Airport in Panama. Over 150 aviation industry partners have now trained more than 350,000 employees through BLI.
- The Department’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is hosting counter-trafficking events in Michigan and Texas this month to educate and encourage the public to recognize, prevent, and report human trafficking.