The National Outreach Survey for Transportation (NOST) Final Report Available Now! 
3,896 respondents – transport workers, trafficking survivors, law enforcement, and service providers – answered questions about countering human trafficking and what is and what is not working in the transportation sector. Respondents share their knowledge about human trafficking, challenges they experience on the frontlines, and recommendations for improvement. We appreciate the leadership of Lived Experience Experts, who advised this entire project.

Some key findings:
> Nearly one-third of 2,792 respondents reported mandatory human trafficking training at their place of employment, while 23% were unsure.
> 85% of 3,870 respondents have never reported signs of human trafficking.
> That’s 62% of 341 law enforcement, 87% of 2,002 aviation workers, 92% of 266 transit workers, 97% of 935 roadway workers, and 47% of the remaining 326 respondents.
> Among 3,551 respondents, 48% indicated they had concerns about misidentifying signs of human trafficking.
> 85% of 3,139 respondents indicated they would like to be trained on how to identify human trafficking victims.
> 65% of 158 trafficking survivors never saw a hotline number posted at the time of exploitation.
> In particular, 32% of 95 trafficking survivors never saw human trafficking awareness information in a public restroom, and 23% said they rarely saw such information as they moved from location to location.
> 60% of 44 victim service providers say obtaining transportation services for their clients is difficult.

The staggering number of global transportation movements, whether within a country, across borders, or online, make interdiction of trafficking nearly impossible without data-driven analysis to guide how governments allocate resources and energy in the space. Such analysis requires comprehensive frontline data collected from across the transportation industry, as well as from sex and labor trafficking survivors and direct victim service providers; data that, until now, has not been available to the counter-trafficking community.

I authored two chapters in the NOST final report, “Pipelines: Mitigating Exposure to Human Trafficking” and “Reporting: Disrupting Labor and Sex Trafficking with Stronger Reporting Practices”. As a former sexual assault victim advocate and self-proclaimed social justice warrior, I am very proud to have been a part of this research effort and to share this invaluable information with the public.

We invite everyone with an interest in anti human trafficking efforts, transportation, criminal justice, governance (including ESG systems), or collaborative research to review the NOST. Find the entire NOST report, individual chapters by mode and key topic areas, and a toolkit with >400 data visualizations. We invite you to repost to your networks and comment below!

Access the NOST report findings at the link below.

https://www.unitedagainstslavery.org/nost-2021

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