Posted by Thomas Littleton, Ph.D, FTA Associate Administrator for Transit Safety and Oversight
Last week, the Transit Advisory Committee for Safety (TRACS), chartered in 2009 to provide advice and recommendations to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) on transit safety matters, met in Washington, DC, to discuss their progress on the two safety tasks they undertook in 2016. TRACS meetings provide a valuable opportunity for the FTA to hear firsthand from committee members about the safety issues they see affecting the transit industry, and also provide a chance for FTA to discuss with them our recent activities in safety oversight, rulemaking, and research and innovation, and receive their feedback and questions.
During the two-day meeting, the committee discussed various effects safety culture, safety data and performance management have on the overall safety of a transit system. The FTA asked TRACS to focus on these priority areas because both are critical to the success of Safety Management Systems (SMS). With publication of the Public Transportation Safety Program Final Rule in September 2016, the FTA adopted the principles and methods of Safety Management Systems (SMS) as the basis of its Safety Program. TRACS working groups have devoted months to researching these safety topics and presented their preliminary findings to the entire committee. These reports will be finalized and posted on FTA's web site in early 2017.
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TRACS Prepares Recommendations for FTA on Safety Culture and Data
