Overview
FTA administers a national transit safety program and program compliance oversight process to advance safe, reliable, and equitable transit service throughout the U.S. FTA’s Office of Transit Safety & Oversight (TSO) helps make transit safer through policy development, hazard investigation, data collection, risk analysis, oversight programs and information sharing.
What's New
2017 Joint State Safety Oversight and Rail Transit Agency Workshop
FTA will host the 2017 Joint State Safety Oversight and Rail Transit Agency Workshop in Arlington, VA, at the Westin Arlington Gateway, from Tuesday, October 24 through Friday, October 27, 2017. To register please click here.
Dr. Thomas Littleton, FTA’s Associate Administrator for Transit Safety and Oversight, explains the importance of states with rail transit systems meeting the April 15, 2019 deadline for obtaining FTA certification of their State Safety Oversight programs.
September 2017 Newsletter
Read the September 2017 Issue of FTA's Transit Safety and Oversight Spotlight Newsletter.
Resources
- Learn more about our Organization Structure
- Learn more about our Office Leadership
- Learn more about our Program Offices:
- Learn more about FTA's WMATA Safety Oversight
- Learn more about TSO through the TSO Spotlight Newsletter