The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) created this Roadmap to help Rail Transit Agencies (RTA) transition their safety plans from the requirements for System Safety Program Plan (SSPP) under 49 CFR Part 659 (Part 659), to the requirements for...

49 CFR Part 673 establishes definitions that apply to a rail transit agency’s (RTA) Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP). As your agency develops its PTASP, it is important to review and understand the new definitions in Part 673 and to...

FTA developed this tool to help individuals distinguish between hazards and consequences in Safety Risk Management under a Safety Management System.

The Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) regulation at 49 C.F.R. Part 673.25(b)(1) requires transit agencies to “establish methods or processes to identify hazards and the consequences of hazards” as part of their overall Safety Management...

The Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments (BCDCOG) proposes to implement a bus rapid transit (BRT) service connecting North Charleston and Charleston. The Project is planned to operate in a dedicated guideway for 11.7 miles (55 percent...

FTA’s Joe DeLorenzo, Associate Administrator for Transit Safety and Oversight and Chief Safety Officer, and Hope Jensen, Director of the Office of Program Oversight, gave an overview of the safety regulatory agenda and the top oversight findings.

The Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) regulation (49 CFR part 673) states that each transit agency must establish activities to "conduct investigation of safety events to identify causal factors."  This article examines what causal...

In 2022 and 2023, several transit stakeholders have asked FTA to clarify a grant recipient’s ability to modify the prices of existing federally assisted contracts or to structure their federally assisted contracts using advance or progress payments....

03/13/2023

American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Legislative Conference 2023
Remarks of Administrator Nuria Fernandez (as prepared for delivery)

Thank you, Matt [Tucker, APTA Legislative Cmte...