PTASP TAC Update: May 2023

This issue of the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) Technical Assistance Center (TAC) Update focuses on safety training programs.

FTA Drug and Alcohol Newsletter May 2023 Issue 78

Issue 78 of the FTA Drug and Alcohol Regulation Updates Newsletter is now available. Please share the newsletter with colleagues and send comments to FTA.DAMIS@dot.gov. 

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PTASP TAC Update: April 2023

This issue of the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) Technical Assistance Center (TAC) update focuses on recent questions to the TAC.

TSO Spotlight April 2023 Issue

FTA's April 2023 Transit Safety and Oversight Spotlight Newsletter highlights FTA's participation at the Lifesavers Conference, provides a recap of FTA's 16th Annual Drug and Alcohol Conference and introduces a member of the Transit Advisory Committee for Safety.

Urbanized Area Size Changes and Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan Requirements

On December 29, 2022, the Census Bureau published a Federal Register Notice announcing urban areas based on the 2020 Census. If the UZA(s) an agency serves changes size, this may affect its PTASP requirements. Most of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law changes to the PTASP requirements apply to...

PTASP TAC Update: March 2023

This issue of the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) Technical Assistance Center (TAC) Update focuses on identifying causal factors in safety event investigations.

TSO Spotlight March 2023 Issue

FTA's March 2023 Transit Safety and Oversight Spotlight Newsletter discusses how transit agencies can help prevent human trafficking, introduces a member of the Transit Advisory Committee for Safety and highlights the National Roadway Safety Strategy Call to Action Campaign.

Causal Factors in Safety Investigations (Part 1): Causal Factors and Safety Management Systems

The Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) regulation (49 CFR part 673) states that each transit agency must establish activities to "conduct investigation of safety events to identify causal factors."  This article examines what causal factors are and their role in an agency's...

Employee Safety Reporting Program (ESRP) Part 4: Monitoring and Using ESRP Data

This fourth article of the ESRP series explores how an agency can use ESRP series explores how an agency can use ESRP data to identify a safety concern.  This article was originally published in the January 2023 issue of the Transit Safety & Oversight Spotlight newsletter.

PTASP TAC Update: February 2023

This issue of the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) Technical Assistance Center (TAC) Update focuses on PTASP requirements for agencies whose urbanized area size may have changed due to the 2020 Census update.