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NTSB reiterates motorcoach safety recs

Board also makes recommendation to NHTSA.

NTSB to meet on ‘most wanted’ safety improvements

Issues to be reviewed this year include intelligent highway technologies, motor carrier operations, operator fatigue and rail car design.

U.S. DOT introduces safety, accountability rule

Intends to reduce rail accidents caused by human error.

Governor Advances Transit-Oriented Development in Baltimore

The Maryland Transit Administration is advancing the nearly $1.4 billion Light Rail Modernization Program, which modernizes the Baltimore Central Light Rail Line from Hunt Valley to BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport with new, low-floor vehicles and upgrades to all light rail stations, systems, and maintenance facilities.

Mass., Hawaii attain FTA State Safety Oversight certification

There are 30 states that must obtain FTA certification of their SSO Programs by April 15, 2019. Four states have already met the deadline: Ohio, Minnesota, Utah, and the District of Columbia.

FRA announces safety guide, accident decline

Fewer accidents in 2007 attributed to Safety Action Plan.

Feds Proposes Revised Regulations to Enhance Track Safety

The changes would require certain railroads to supplement visual inspections by operating a Track Geometry Measurement System at specified minimum frequencies on certain types of track.

FTA issues public transportation safety program final rule

The final rule formally adopts the Safety Management System approach to safety as the basis of the FTA safety program.