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This report presents research that supports Effective Practices in Bus Transit Accident Investigations, which were developed to provide bus transit agencies leading transit industry practices for performing investigations.
Issue 75 of the FTA Drug and Alcohol Regulation Updates Newsletter is now available. Please share the newsletter with colleagues and send comments to FTA.DAMIS@dot.gov.
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Preliminary Management Information System (MIS) Results State & Local Legislation...Public transportation plays an important role connecting millions of Americans to jobs, vital services, and civic participation, including voting. Transit providers across the country are distinctly positioned to reduce some of the obstacles Americans face to exercising their sacred, fundamental...
Transit agencies may choose to implement safety risk mitigations depending on the results of their Safety Risk Assessment process. This article gives as an example an agency developing mitigations for the safety risk associated with falls on or from one of its open platforms.This article was...
Link Transit's Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan
Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District's Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan
The latest Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) Technical Assistance Center (TAC) Update is available. New featured resources include the Agency Safety Plan Directory (ASP) to the TAC Resource Library.
Register for the next PTASP webinar, "The Safety Risk Register in...
FTA's June 2022 Transit Safety and Oversight Spotlight Newsletter includes Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Requirements resources, FTA's recent transit industry engagement and how to develop mitigations in response to the Safety Risk Assessment.
The FTA issues Special Directive 18-1 to require the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), Public Transportation Safety Board (PTSB) to address safety findings identified through FTA’s 2017 Triennial Audit of its State Safety Oversight (SSO) Program. This Special Directive...