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FTA's Associate Administrator for Transit Safety and Oversight and Chief Safety Officer Joe DeLorenzo discussed FTA safety updates including Public Transportation Agency Safety Plans compliance for transit agencies and FTA's initial analysis of responses to General Directive 24-1: Required...
FTA's latest Transit Safety and Oversight Spotlight Newsletter highlights Responses to General Directive 24-1, Safety Management Systems (SMS) in Practice Virtual Workshops, the 18th Annual FTA Drug and Alcohol Program National Conference and the 2025 FTA Joint SSO and RTA Workshop.
On January 16, 2025, FTA published Responses to General Directive 24-1: Required Actions Regarding Assaults on Transit Workers. FTA's initial analysis of agency responses shows more than two-thirds of transit agencies determined that safety risk mitigations are necessary to reduce the...
FTA's Office of System Safety, Transportation Data Analyst Gibran Abifadel provided an overview of FTA's recent efforts to reduce the safety risk in the transit industry for bus-to-person collisions.
FTA's latest Transit Safety and Oversight Spotlight Newsletter highlights the recent the Purple Line Light Rail Transit Project in Maryland, mental health resources for the transit industry, Transit Safety and Oversight accomplishments in 2024, December TRACS meeting recap, and the NTD safety...
Issue 83 of the FTA Drug & Alcohol Program Newsletter includes information about Management Information System reporting, Evidential Breath Testing maintenance and the 2025 Drug & Alcohol National Conference.
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This Designated Participants PTSCTP Template is for agency point of contacts (POCs) to fulfill new semi-annual reporting requirement to update FTA on the current list of the agency's designated PTSCTP participants. POCs must return the completed form, both tabs within the template, to...
User Guide for Safety Management System (SMS) Report application.
FTA recently issued Safety Advisory 24-2: Street Running Rail Vehicle Collisions to reduce fatalities and injuries caused by street-running rail vehicle collisions. This webinar provides State Safety Oversight Agencies and Rail Transit Agencies with an overview of the Safety Advisory,...