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The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) prepared this guide to assist your rail transit agency in establishing a safety risk assessment matrix appropriate for the size and complexity of your operations. Choosing to adopt such a matrix may help your agency implement the Safety Risk Management...
The Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan regulation at 49 C.F.R. Part 673 (Part 673) requires each rail transit agency (RTA) to develop an Agency Safety Plan (ASP) and certify that it meets Part 673 requirements. In addition, as specified in § 673.13, and authorized in FTA’s State Safety...
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is providing the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan Checklist for Rail Transit Agencies (RTAs) and State Safety Oversight Agencies (SSOAs) to assist with the development of the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (ASP) for rail transit modes....
FTA developed a Sample Safety Risk Register in Microsoft Excel to help transit agencies explore the benefits of this tool. This register is illustrative only; each transit agency may determine the tool or method that best suits its SMS documentation and tracking needs.
This document is designed to help transit agencies identify potential sources of hazards for analysis through the Safety Risk Management (SRM) process. SRM works within agency Safety Management Systems (SMS) to help assess and mitigate safety risk.
FTA defines a hazard in...
FTA developed a Sample Safety Risk Register in Microsoft Excel to help transit agencies explore the benefits of this tool. This register is illustrative only; each transit agency may determine the tool or method that best suits its SMS documentation and tracking needs.
Through the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) regulation at 49 C.F.R Part 673 (Part 673), the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) requires transit agencies to implement a Safety Management System (SMS) to manage safety risk, which can help agencies maintain or improve their...
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) developed this guide to explain the distinct functions of safety risk mitigations and corrective actions. The guide discusses their respective roles within the Safety Risk Management and Safety Assurance processes within a Safety Management System (SMS)....
This is the electronic version of the PTASP Rail Workshop Participant Guide from FTA's 2019 Joint SSO and RTA Workshop held in September 2019. The appendices have been modified to link to the most recent versions of support materials.
As part of its efforts to support innovation among public transportation agencies across the country, FTA hosted two webinars in October 2019 to highlight current practices in partnerships between transit and shared mobility providers, share lessons learned from the Mobility on Demand...