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| Document Title: | Rail Transit Safety Action Plan |
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| Number Of Pages: | 52 |
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| Order Copies: | This document is provided exclusively via electronic downloading. |
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| Keywords: | rail, safety, state safety oversight, commuter rail |
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| Main Category: | Safety |
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| Organization: | Federal Transit Administration
Office of Safety and Security
Washington, DC 20590 |
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| Sponsor Agency: | Federal Transit Administration
Office of Safety and Security
Washington, DC 20590 |
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| Description: | FTA has prepared this Rail Transit Safety Action Plan to focus attention on those safety incidents of greatest concern in the rail transit industry. The objectives of the Rail Transit Safety Action Plan are to: target the most frequent, highest risk causes of rail transit accidents; direct FTA's oversight and technical assistance resources to address these high-risk causes; and accelerate industry awareness, spotlighting activities and practices that have the potential to mitigate the largest risks.
To accomplish these objectives, FTA has conducted an extensive analysis of available safety data from the National Transit Database (NTD) and the State Safety Oversight Annual Reporting Program. This data has been analyzed to determine the number and types of safety incidents that are occurring in the rail transit industry, the impacts of these incidents in terms of fatalities, injuries and property damage, and the probable causes of a select sub-set of the most serious of these incidents. In this plan, FTA uses the results of this analysis to establish: the most common causes of rail transit accidents; top ten priorities to guide FTA's safety program and focus industry attention; FTA initiatives to support accident reduction and to address FTA's top ten priorities; performance measures to track the rail transit industry's safety record and to monitor progress in addressing FTA's priorities and achieving target goals; and performance measures and target goals for the State Safety Oversight Program to support implementation of FTA safety initiatives.
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