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2. What is the Transit Bus Safety and
Security Program?
• A means to provide practical guidance, technical assistance
and resources to rural Section 5311 and small and large urban
Section 5307 transit bus agencies
• A voluntary partnership between Federal government, State
governments and transit industry
• A framework to promote continuous improvement in safety,
security and emergency preparedness in support of
passengers, employees and communities
• A program that can be tailored to the diversity of individual
transit bus agency needs rather than a program that employs
a “one-size fits all” approach
Federal Transit Administration Slide 2
Transit Bus Safety and Security Program
3. Who is involved in the Program?
• Transit Bus Agencies
• MOU Partners
• State Departments of Transportation
• Other Federal Agencies (FHWA, FMCSA, DHS/TSA)
• Educational Institutions
• National Rural Transit Assistance Program (RTAP)
• FTA Regional Offices and Headquarters
Federal Transit Administration Slide 3
Transit Bus Safety and Security Program
4. Who are the MOU Partners?
• American Association of State and Highway
Transportation Officials (AASHTO)
• American Public Transportation Association (APTA)
• Community Transportation Association of American
(CTAA)
Federal Transit Administration Slide 4
Transit Bus Safety and Security Program
5. What is the MOU?
• Response to 1998 recommendations from the
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and
growing need for improvements in bus safety
• Developed jointly by FTA, AASHTO and CTAA
• An agreement that partners would work together to
establish a national program to:
– improve transit bus safety and security for passengers,
employees, and others that share the roadways
– provide ongoing monitoring and technical assistance
Federal Transit Administration Slide 5
Transit Bus Safety and Security Program
6. What were NTSB’s recommendations?
• Develop and implement oversight program to assess
and ensure safety of transit bus operations receiving
Federal funding
• Collect accurate, timely, sufficient data for thorough
assessment of transit bus safety
• Evaluate collected data to identify underlying causes
of transit bus accidents that lead to identification of
safety deficiencies at transit agencies
• Develop comprehensive safety program and provide
to all transit agencies
Federal Transit Administration Slide 6
Transit Bus Safety and Security Program
7. How is the Program mission advanced?
• Through the Program Working Group
– Currently includes representatives from five (5) Regional Offices
• Through workshops and conferences
– CTAA EXPO
– APTA Bus and Paratransit Conference
– TRB National Conference on Rural Public and Intercity Bus Transportation
– National RTAP conferences
– AASHTO State Programs meetings
– State Transit Association conferences
• Through interaction with the FTA Project Team
• Through ongoing outreach with transit agencies by
way of training, certification and accreditation efforts
Federal Transit Administration Slide 7
Transit Bus Safety and Security Program
8. What is role of FTA Headquarters?
• Manages the program
• Provides resources and expertise for program
initiatives
– State DOT Orientation Seminars
– Resource website
– Transit agency voluntary onsite safety & security reviews
– Outreach and collaboration
• Coordinates with MOU Partners, Regional Offices,
state DOTs and other stakeholders
Federal Transit Administration Slide 8
Transit Bus Safety and Security Program
9. What is role of FTA’s Regional Offices?
• Designate a program point-of-contact for HQ’s Project Team
• Participate in transit agency voluntary onsite reviews and
state DOT orientation seminars as time and travel budget
allows
• Assist HQ in marketing the program as valuable resource to
grantees
– Encourage grantees to request voluntary onsite reviews by facilitating
contact with Carole Ferguson, PM - carole.ferguson@dot.gov
– Point grantees to the website – http://bussafety.fta.dot.gov
• Notify HQ of any safety or security concerns involving grantee
operations
• Collaborate with HQ to address grantee safety and/or security
issues or challenges
Federal Transit Administration Slide 9
Transit Bus Safety and Security Program
10. What is role of state DOTs?
• Promote the program to their sub-recipients
• Co-sponsor FTA’s state DOT Orientation Seminars
• Advise sub-recipients to conduct self-assessment
using Tool offered on Resource Website
• Participate in transit agency voluntary onsite reviews
as time and travel budget allows
• Collaborate with FTA on program direction through
AASHTO
Federal Transit Administration Slide 10
Transit Bus Safety and Security Program
11. Who should take advantage of the Program?
• Public transit bus agencies
– Rural 5311 sub-recipients; large and small 5307 grantees;
tribal systems
– Transit agencies working to build safety, security and
emergency preparedness programs
– Transit agencies looking to improve existing programs
• State DOTs
– Critical partner in managing relationship with 5311 sub-
recipients
– Assists state DOTs in implementing their own safety and
security requirements
Federal Transit Administration Slide 11
Transit Bus Safety and Security Program
12. What can transit agencies gain from the
Program?
• Onsite assistance from FTA through voluntary reviews
• Guidance on safety, security and emergency
preparedness concerns through Orientation Seminars
• Communication with peers at Seminars
• Familiarization with the Program’s Roadmap to Bus
Safety, Security and Emergency Preparedness Excellence
– Link: http://bussafety.fta.dot.gov/help.php?id=6
• An evaluation of their programs using the website Self-
assessment Tool
• Access to over 1,000 resources and other information on
Bus Safety & Security Program website
Federal Transit Administration Slide 12
Transit Bus Safety and Security Program
13. What are the main elements of the Program?
• Voluntary onsite reviews
• State DOT Orientation Seminars
• Resource website
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14. What takes place during a voluntary
onsite review?
• Reviews are not compliance-based
• Typically last 1 – 2 days depending on size of system
• Program Team reviews 6 key functional areas as outlined in
Roadmap for Excellence
• Program Team administers checklist through interviews with
grantee personnel
• Program Team inspects facilities and vehicles
• Program Team reviews records and documentation
• A Final Report is delivered with recommendations
• Program Team provides technical assistance while onsite and
with delivery of Final Report
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15. How are voluntary reviews coordinated?
• FTA’s Project Team solicits volunteers
– Requests made by agencies through website
– Requests made by FTA Region or State DOT
– Direct outreach to transit agencies
• Formal invitations sent to transit agency, State DOT
and FTA’s Regional Office
• Project Team works with transit agency staff and
other participants on scheduling review
• FTA Region and State DOT are copied on results and
any follow-up
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16. Can FTA’s Regional Offices and State DOT
representatives participate in onsite
reviews?
• Absolutely, it is welcomed and encouraged
• FTA and state DOT involvement reinforces a
coordinated response to safety, security and
emergency preparedness concerns
• Full participation increases program credibility from
transit agency’s perspective
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17. What takes place during a State DOT
Orientation Seminar?
• Provides effective mechanism
– to familiarize stakeholders with the program's background
and objectives
– to present voluntary guidance that addresses the needs of
transit bus agencies around the nation, regardless of their
size, level of funding, or operating characteristics
– for program stakeholders to meet and share challenges and
effective practices
– to demonstrate the resource website
– to assist transit agencies in creating action plans that
enhance safety, security, emergency preparedness
infrastructure
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18. How are Orientation Seminars scheduled
and supported?
• FTA’s Project Team reaches out to state DOTs
• State DOT’s, at times in conjunction with state Transit
Associations, agree to co-sponsor seminar with FTA
• Seminar participants typically are small urban Section
5307 and rural Section 5311 transit agencies within the
state
• Seminars are one day in length
• FTA provides presenters and funds meeting space
• FTA provides hand-out and evaluation materials
• State DOTs ensure/encourage transit agency attendance
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19. What is the agenda of Orientation Seminars?
• Welcome and Introductions
• FTA Program Overview
• Roadmap for Bus Safety and Security Excellence Part I
• LUNCH
• Roadmap for Bus Safety and Security Excellence Part II
• Demonstration of Bus Program website
• Steps for Program Implementation
• FTA and State DOT expectations
• Wrap up
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20. What are major components of FTA Bus
Safety & Security website?
• Roadmap to Excellence
• Resource library
• Self-assessment Tool
• Additional Program information
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21. What is the Roadmap for Bus Safety &
Security Excellence?
• A document available for download from FTA Bus
Safety & Security website
• Presents voluntary guidelines on critical functions
and elements of bus transit agency safety, security
and emergency preparedness infrastructure
• Drives the structure of
– Website resource library
– Orientation Seminar presentations
– Onsite review checklist
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22. What are the 6 key functional areas of
the Roadmap for Excellence and their
supporting elements?
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23. Management
• Management Commitment
• Mission, Vision, Values, Goals and Objectives
• Organizational Structure
• Safety Planning
• Security Planning
• Employee Relations
• Procurement Strategies
• Information Management Systems
• Risk Management and Insurance
• Safety and Security in Financial Planning
• Contractor Management
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24. Operations and Maintenance
• Regulations and Standards
• Service Design and Delivery
• Passenger Safety
• Maintenance Planning
• Maintenance Procedures
• Maintenance Recordkeeping
• Hazardous Materials
• Radio and Communications
• Bus Rapid Transit and Roadway Management
• Performance Measurements
• Quality Management
• System Modifications
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25. Human Resources
• Agency Policies
• Drug and Alcohol Program
• Recruitment and Selection
• Personnel Management and Evaluation
• Training Management and Documentation
• Driver / Operator Training
• Staff Development
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26. Safety Activities
• Safety Hazard Identification and Reduction
• Accident / Incident Reporting, Investigation and
Review
• Transit Facility Safety
• Safety Certification
• Contractor Safety
• Safety Data Acquisition and Analysis
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27. Security Activities
• External Security Stakeholders
• Security Awareness, Reporting and Response
• Revenue Security
• Transit Facility Security and Audits
• Security Certification
• Contractor Security and Audits
• Security Data Acquisition and Analysis
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28. Emergency/All-hazards Management
Preparedness, Prevention and Coordination
Incident Response and Management
Incident Recovery
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29. What does website resource library contain?
• Categories consistent with key functions and elements of
Roadmap to Excellence
• Over 1,000 practical resources, tools and links
– Plans and policies
– Handbooks and rulebooks
– Templates and models
– Procedures and protocols
– Forms and checklists
– Articles and studies
– Training materials
– Other types of documents as appropriate
• Information useful for all sizes and types of bus transit agencies
• Easy system to identify and drill down to desired resources
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30. What is the website Self-assessment Tool?
• Categories consistent with Roadmap to Excellence
and website resource structure
• Educational instrument to help transit systems
identify strengths and areas in need of improvement
• Allows transit agencies to customize self-assessment
questions based on operating characteristics
• Provides immediate access to resources to support
individual self-assessment questions
• Completed assessment can be printed and used to
prioritize action plans for building agency safety,
security and emergency preparedness infrastructure
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31. What additional Bus Safety & Security
Program information is on website?
• Opportunity to become a registered user
• Program background
• Description of Program partners
• Maps on Program implementation
• Transit safety and security news items
• Transit safety, security and training events
• Links to key stakeholder websites
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32. Why should a Bus Program website user
register on the website?
• Provides information to FTA on scope of Program
impact
• Allows access to Self-assessment Tool
• Registered users receive periodic and timely blast
emails on critical transit safety and security concerns
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33. Who are beneficiaries of FTA Bus Program?
• Individual transit agencies
Program provides mechanism to:
o evaluate current safety, security, emergency preparedness activities
o Identify strengths / needs
o access technical assistance to meet needs to assist with mission accomplishment
• Transit employees
Program provides resources to enhance individual technical skill sets and
safety, security, emergency preparedness professionalism
• Transit passengers
Program assists in decreasing operational safety risks to passengers while
enhancing their security when using transit
• Communities transit serves
Program emphasizes importance of transportation readiness to respond to
community emergencies; provides tools for carrying out that response
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34. Who are beneficiaries of FTA Bus Program?
(cont.)
• FTA and US Dept. of Transportation
Program meets NTSB recommendations
Program encourages achievement of safety, security, emergency preparedness
excellence within framework of nationally standardized guidelines
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other Federal agencies
Program provides mechanism for FTA to partner with other federal agencies
• State DOTs
Program provides guidance/support to state DOTs to assist in elevating level of
safety, security, emergency preparedness of bus transit agencies
• Transit associations
Program provides template for designing safety, security, emergency
preparedness conference /workshop presentations and technical assistance
activities
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35. What can FTA Regional Offices do next?
• Visit the program website
– http://bussafety.fta.dot.gov
• Download Program Overview presentation and share with
others
• Discuss Program with your grantees and help them get
involved
– Ask urban transit systems within the Region if they would like to
participate in a voluntary onsite review by FTA and share that
information with the FTA Program Manager
• To learn more about the Program, contact:
– Ms. Carole Ferguson, FTA Program Manager carole.ferguson@dot.gov
– Mr. Jim Caton, Project Manager jcaton@bcgtrans.com
– Mr. Ream Lazaro, Technical Lead rlazaro@bcgtrans.com
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36. The FTA Bus Safety & Security
Program Team
thanks you for your time and support
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