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This report provides information on projects funded under Federal public transportation law (49 U.S.C. § 5312). FTA Research priorities are safety, mobility innovation, and infrastructure. Projects in these areas promoted public transportation innovation to improve operations, infrastructure,...
Read this week’s updates with a focus on the Agency Safety Plan (ASP) review, approval, certification, and assurance process and newly available Sample Agency Safety Plan for Small Public Transportation Providers.
Other featured resources include the Introduction to Safety Performance...
This is the Foreward section of the FY20 Comprehensive Review Contractor’s Manual.
This is the Summary of Changes section of the FY20 Comprehensive Review Contractor’s Manual.
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) provides this sample ASP to assist small public transportation providers, as defined in 49 CFR § 673.5 (Part 673), with an example of how they can address minimum requirements in the PTASP regulation, Part 673. FTA uses the fictitious County Transit (CT)...
This report summary is on the Resilient Concrete Crosstie and Fastening System Designs for Light, Heavy, and Commuter Rail Transit.
Rail transit track and its components are expected to function as a system, and the performance and correct design of each component is critical to overall system behavior. A critical component in the transfer of load through the track system is the crosstie. Concrete is the crosstie material...
This report summary is on the Reduced Engine Idle Load (REIL) System for Conventional Propulsion Diesel & CNG Buses: Development, Validation & Market Study Program.
The Center for Transportation and the Environment partnered with New Flyer, BAE Systems and MARTA to design, build, test and evaluate the technology and market readiness of a Reduced Engine Idle Load (REIL) system for diesel and CNG (compressed natural gas) transit buses. A REIL system replaces...
This is a report summary of the evaluation report for the Mobility on Demand (MOD) Sandbox Demonstration managed by the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART). The evaluation report provides information on the demonstration project's results, data, and lessons learned.