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FTA’s Safety Management Inspection (SMI) focused on MBTA’s processes, procedures, and resources for safety decision-making and the role of the DPU in overseeing MBTA’s safety performance. Findings identify areas that require continued attention and increased resources by MBTA to prioritize...
This document summarizes current accessibility practices among transit bus automation demonstrations and pilot projects. It also discusses ongoing research on technologies that may enhance the accessibility of future automated buses and services.
This report provides a summary of current accessibility practices among transit bus automation demonstrations and pilot projects. It also discusses ongoing research on technologies that may enhance the accessibility of future automated buses and services.
FTA's August 2022 Transit Safety and Oversight Spotlight Newsletter includes FTA's upcoming rulemaking in the 2022 Spring Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, TSO's introduction to its to new division chiefs and how to assess risk using a safety risk register. Read...
Projects help transit agencies buy dozens of climate-friendly electric buses and fund a new bus rapid transit line to modernize and improve rides
RALEIGH, NC – Today, Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Administrator Nuria Fernandez joined federal and local...
President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law makes historic investments to support better, more reliable transit service
WASHINGTON –The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a $35 million construction...
FTA provided an overview of FTA's Drug and Alcohol Testing Regulation Part 655, new industry requirements and its impacts on FTA grantees.
This document summarizes research focused on mitigation strategies and countermeasures that may be used by rail transit agencies (RTAs) to reduce trespasser and suicide fatalities and injuries, including RTA practices and practical and promising strategies and countermeasures.
This report presents research focused on mitigation strategies and countermeasures that may be used by rail transit agencies (RTAs) to reduce trespasser and suicide fatalities and injuries, including RTA practices and practical and promising strategies and countermeasures.