State DOT Roundtable Meeting

FTA’s Associate Administrator and Chief Safety Officer Joe DeLorenzo and Hope Jensen, Director of the Office of Program Oversight provided safety updates and discussed SMR Oversight Findings. 

Operation Lifesaver National Advisory Council FTA Update

 FTA provided updates on safety rail transit initiatives at the Operation Lifesaver National Advisory Council.

Global Railway Alliance for Suicide Prevention: FTA Rail Transit Update

 FTA provided updates on safety rail transit initiatives at the Global Railway Alliance for Suicide Prevention.

Workshop on FTA’s Oversight Review Process (State Management (SMR)/Triennial Reviews (TR))

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 Safety Hot Topics: Assaults on Transit Workers, Bus-to-Person Collisions, Fatigue Resources, and More

FTA’s Associate Administrator and Chief Safety Officer Joe DeLorenzo and Office of System Safety Program Manager Ivey Glendon discussed the latest data on assaults on transit workers and bus-to-person collisions, shared FTA’s fatigue resources for transit operations and more. 

CTAA EXPO 2024

FTA and FRA Rules and Regulations, including FTA’s RBI Program

Jeremy Furrer, Safety Policy and Promotion Division Chief in the Office of System Safety, provided an overview of and status update on FTA's safety policy initiatives and the RBI program.

Roadway Worker Protection (RWP) in Rail Transit: FTA, Agency and Business Member Perspectives

FTA’s Program Analyst Mia Veltri discussed the recently published NPRM on RWP. 

Rail Safety Committee and Commuter Rail Safety & Security Subcommittee

FTA's Associate Administrator and Chief Safety Officer Joe DeLorenzo provided an update on FTA's regulatory agenda, state of rail safety, safety risk management, the RBI program, assaults on transit workers and NRSS.

APTA Security & Emergency Management Roundtable

FTA's Associate Administrator and Chief Safety Officer Joe DeLorenzo provided an update on transit worker assault.