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FTA's latest Transit Safety and Oversight Spotlight Newsletter highlights the recent General Directive regarding assaults on transit workers and our partnership with Operation Lifesaver Inc. For See Tracks? Think Train® Week.
FTA has developed a Rail Grade Crossing (RGX) Fact Sheet communicating the current transit RGX safety landscape, transit RGX collision trends and incidents and collisions data. FTA analyzes data reported to the National Transit Database (NTD) to monitor transit RGX incidents, injuries and...
Issue 82 of the FTA Drug & Alcohol Program Newsletter is now available. This issue includes information about random testing spread requirements, collection sites and Designated Employer Representatives.
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Based on the popularity of the virtual SMS in Practice: Advancing Safety Risk Management and Safety Assurance workshops, three additional sessions of these two full day virtual workshops are open for registration. They will be held from 10...
FTA correspondence to the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority regarding maintenance vehicle derailments.
FTA hosted a virtual public roundtable with bus manufacturers and the transit industry to discuss transit bus safety and elements in the design of transit buses that impact operator visibility. View the recording.
These frequently asked questions (FAQs) cover the Public Transportation Safety Certification Training Program (PTSCTP) regulation at 49 CFR 672. The PTSCTP regulation establishes minimum safety training requirements for State Safety Oversight Agency (SSOA) employees and contractors...
Jeremy Furrer, Safety Policy and Promotion Division Chief in the Office of System Safety, reviewed the background of PTSCTP, provided a summary of the comments that FTA received on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and reviewed the updates that are included in the Final Rule. View the...
FTA's Hope Jensen, Director of the Office of Program Oversight, provided an overview of FTA’s Oversight Review process, top 10 SMR/TR findings and available resources to help transit agencies.
FTA's August 2024 Transit Safety and Oversight Spotlight newsletter highlights FTA's published updates to its safety certification training regulation, Drug & Alcohol newsletter, FTA's 60-years of improving America through public transit, World Day Against Trafficking in Persons and...