2024 SSOR Refresher Training Webinar FAQs
Frequently asked questions from the State Safety Oversight Reporting (SSOR) Tool refresher training webinars from 2024.
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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...
2024 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
Sunday, January 7 How FTA is Supporting Transit Agencies in Our Communities Monday, January 8 Transit Collisions: Data Overview & FTA Research Initiatives Transit Safety and Security Committee Meeting Tuesday, January 9 Rail Safety Committee MeetingRail Safety Committee Meeting
Joe DeLorenzo, Associate Administrator for Transit Safety and Oversight & Chief Safety Officer, FTA, provided updates to the Rail Safety Committee on FTA's 2024 safety focus areas and priorities, state of rail transit safety data, FTA's rail transit focus areas, risk-based inspection...
Transit Safety and Security Committee Meeting
Joe DeLorenzo, Associate Administrator for Transit Safety and Oversight & Chief Safety Officer, FTA, provided updates to the Transit Safety and Security Committee on FTA's 2024 safety focus areas and priorities, state of rail and bus transit safety data, bus-to-person collisions and FTA...
Transit Collisions: Data Overview & FTA Research Initiatives
FTA's Ivey Glendon, Safety Data Program Manager in the Office of System Safety and Roy Chen, Engineer in the Office of Infrastructure & Asset Innovation provided an overview of the Office of Transit Safety & Oversight, the Office of Research, Demonstration and Innovation and transit...
How FTA is Supporting Transit Agencies in Our Communities
Joe DeLorenzo, Associate Administrator for Transit Safety and Oversight & Chief Safety Officer, FTA, provides an update on transit safety and crime prevention, transit worker assault, trespass and suicide and mental health and wellness for transit workers.