2020 Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan Performance Measure Targets
Crystal Odum, MPO Staff
On July 19, 2018, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) published the Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) Final Rule, which requires certain operators of public transportation systems that receive federal funds under the FTA's Urbanized Area Formula Grants to develop safety plans that include the processes and procedures to implement Safety Management Systems (SMS). The rule applies to all operators of public transportation systems that are recipients and sub-recipients of federal financial assistance under the Urbanized Area Formula Program (49 U.S.C. ? 5307) and all rail transit operator recipients. Agencies were originally required to have a certified Agency Safety Plan that met statutory requirements no later than July 20, 2020.
In recognition of the extraordinary operational challenges that the COVID-19 public health emergency presents for transit agencies, FTA has twice published Notices of Enforcement Discretion on April 22, 2020 and December 11, 2020 delaying enforcement of the final rule. Transit providers subject to the PTASP final rule are now required to have their certified agency safety plans in place by July 20, 2021 rather than July 20, 2020 or December 31, 2020, which includes safety performance targets, and sharing targets with their MPO and State. For small public transportation providers, the State must certify compliance unless the provider opts to draft and certify its own agency safety plan.
Regional transit agencies GoTriangle, GoRaleigh/City of Raleigh, GoCary/Town of Cary and GoWakeAccess/Wake County have each prepared Safety Plans and drafted performance targets in advance of the second enforcement extension. (July 20, 2021) In accordance with 49 U.S.C. 5303(h)(2)(B) and 5304(d)(2)(B), each State and transit agency must make its safety performance targets available to States and Metropolitan Planning Organizations to aid in...
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