Findings include the five risky behaviors seen most often among transit drivers, most improved driving behaviors, and insights on how transit habits compare to those of other industries.
The agency is crowdsourcing data collection to determine how distracted driving impacts the city's communities.
The plan, contigent on a federal grant, would give deputies the ability to search for distracted drivers from a higher vantage point.
System captures collisions and identifies operating risks and compliance issues. When an issue occurs, event video is immediately offloaded and management is notified within minutes of an incident.
The move was made after several complaints about the volume or genre of music, as well as to “reduce potential distractions in the bus.”
Other cash-strapped California transit agencies, facing rising operating costs, are watching the potentially lucrative test run with interest, as current state law restricts digital signage on buses to route and service information.
The incident was caught on cell phone video by a passenger who didn’t want to be identified out of fear of retaliation. The passenger said they shot the video out of concern for other passenger’s safety.
A New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) bus driver has been taken off the road for allegedly reading and highlighting paperwork, while transporting a bus full of passengers, ABC New York reported. The incident was caught on cell phone video by a passenger who didn’t want to be identified out of fear of retaliation. The passenger said they shot the video out of concern for other passenger’s safety.
Bus drivers say the practice puts passenger safety at risk, because it is "an undue distraction."
Over the past year, SEPTA officials have responded to a few track fall incidents each month. Surveillance cameras often show people — some talking or texting on their phones or otherwise distracted — walking past the yellow warning strip and landing into the track area. To decrease these incidents, SEPTA is making distracted commuting the focus of its second annual “Make the Safe Choice” Safety Day.
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