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Transit Customer Assault Prevention

Overview

Public transit is a safe form of transportation. To help ensure the continued safety of our nation's public transit systems, FTA strives to provide useful information and resources for transit agencies to prevent and address crime in their systems, including customer assaults.

FTA has provided below a summary of some of the data from the National Transit Database regarding assaults on transit customers.

TSO Spotlight January 2024 Issue

FTA’s January 2024 Transit Safety and Oversight Spotlight newsletter highlights FTA's participation at the Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting and the procurement cost and price analysis regulations and best practices e-learning course.

Closure of Immediate Action Letter from April 18, 2023

On April 18, 2023, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) issued an Immediate Action Letter (IAL) to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in response to a series of near miss events and deficiencies in MBTA’s implementation of its right of way (ROW) access procedures and...