We're looking for creative safety practices to highlight in our next Spotlight Article. For example, maybe you hold a weekly safety meeting where your maintenance staff gets refresher training on a different topic each week. Or, maybe you have created a wall of Safety Data sheets with the containers of corresponding chemicals next to them, as Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority has done. To share your innovative practice, email info@nationalrtap.org!

• Customer sensitivity
• The ADA and transportation - e.g., service animals, boarding and securing people who use wheelchairs, and effective communication
• Reasonable assistance - what is required and what might be too much

 

USDOT FastLane Blog post about what's on the horizon for transit safety. 

 

Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on factors influencing extent of transit-oriented development. Focuses on urban areas, but the takeaways are applicable to any area.

 

Sign up for email alerts from the FTA, including for the new Transit Asset Management newsletter. 

 

ADA Proposed Circular Amendment 2 available for review. Comment by January 12, 2015. 

 

Government Accountability Office (GAO) Review of US Department of Transportation's TIGER Discretionary Grant Program for Surface Transportation released. 

 

Notice of Funding Availability for the Innovative Public Transportation Workforce Development Program (Ladders of Opportunity). Proposals due on December 23rd for initiatives promoting employment transportation. 

 

Environmental Impact and Related Procedures updates. 

The National Center for Transit Research released a study Evaluating the State of Mobility Management and Human Service Transportation Coordination. 

The Mineta Transportation Institute recently released a study exploring transportation, among other issues, for veterans.

CTAA released their latest CT Magazine, focusing on Vanpooling. 

2014 Pocket Guide to Large Truck and Bus Statistics, a publication of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, is available. 

The Vanpool Works is Ride Share Nation's new initiative to promote and provide assistance with vanpools. 

View the new North American Transportation Statistics website, with new data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. 

The National Volunteer Transportation Center has added 25 new briefs on Risk Management for volunteer drivers (expand the first line). 

View the latest podcasts from the National Center for Mobility Management. 

METRO Magazine's Safety Corner blog posted an article about correctly making left-hand turns while driving a bus, as well as a piece about the long-term benefits of engaging youth to ride transit.