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In a proposed update to the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plans (PTASP) rule, FTA will codify communication between frontline transit workers and management.
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The agency expanded its safety oversight capabilities in 2019, when it established an internal Safety Risk Management process to identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor safety concerns impacting the transit industry.
Read More →The APTA Bus and Rail Safety & Security Excellence Awards recognize public transit providers for their innovative and proactive safety and security programs.
Read More →A key component of the campaign is the Dumbs Ways to Die three-minute animated music video featuring 21 cartoon characters who deliver important safety messages in an unusual manner.
Read More →Earl Adams Jr. takes over the role previously held by Robin Hutcheson.
Read More →The U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade held a hearing designed to learn the views of the Administration and other stakeholders considering the vehicle safety provisions included in the House and Senate highway bills.
Read More →James M. Dougherty will lead the transit agency’s continuous efforts to provide the region with safe public transportation services. Most recently, he was the Chief Safety Officer and Director of Safety, Security and Enforcement for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
Read More →The railcars have features designed to reduce deaths and injuries, such as energy-absorbing crush zones. Metrolink had said those features reduced the carnage in February when one of its trains struck a pickup truck that mistakenly drove onto the tracks near Oxnard. The crash killed the engineer and injured 27 passengers.
Read More →Pedestrian Defense can detect unsafe behavior to solve micromobility challenges.
Read More →The agency said tariffs on specialized imported components could reduce the purchasing power of its $23 billion investment in new subway cars, railcars, and buses.
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