2024 TRACS Renewal Charter
FTA renewal charter for the Transit Advisory Committee for Safety (TRACS). The filing date of this charter is February 2, 2024. This charter will expire two years from that date, on February 2, 2026.
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Transit Agency Perspectives on Customer Assault: Summary Report
In partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe Center (Volpe), FTA commissioned research to gain a deeper understanding of transit customer assault through interviews with transit agency representatives. The Volpe research team explored factors contributing to customer assault...
De-Escalation Training Resource Directory
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Presentation from the 2024 FTA Human Trafficking Prevention Month Webinar. View the recording.
2024 SSOR Refresher Training Webinar FAQs
Frequently asked questions from the State Safety Oversight Reporting (SSOR) Tool refresher training webinars from 2024.
Transit Customer Assault Prevention
Overview
Public transit is a safe form of transportation. To help ensure the continued safety of our nation's public transit systems, FTA strives to provide useful information and resources for transit agencies to prevent and address crime in their systems, including customer assaults.
FTA has provided below a summary of some of the data from the National Transit Database regarding assaults on transit customers.
TSO Spotlight January 2024 Issue
FTA’s January 2024 Transit Safety and Oversight Spotlight newsletter highlights FTA's participation at the Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting and the procurement cost and price analysis regulations and best practices e-learning course.
State Safety Oversight Reporting (SSOR) Refresher Training Webinar Presentation 2024
Presentation for the State Safety Oversight Reporting (SSOR) Refresher Training Webinar.
Closure of Immediate Action Letter from April 18, 2023
On April 18, 2023, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) issued an Immediate Action Letter (IAL) to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in response to a series of near miss events and deficiencies in MBTA’s implementation of its right of way (ROW) access procedures and...