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Florida Transit Safety and Operations Network (FTSON)
The purpose is to provide resources and a platform for discussion of safety and operational challenges, opportunities, and initiatives impacting public transportation providers in Florida.
Journal of Public Transportation Article in Volume 17, Issue 4 (2014) by Nakin Suksawang, Priyanka Alluri, Albert Gan, Katrina Meneses, Fabian Cevallos, Kirolos Haleem, Dibakar Saha. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 requires bus stops to be accessible for individuals with disabilities. At a minimum, bus stops must have firm, stable, slip-resistant loading…
The Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2424 consists of eight papers that address a new snapshot generation protocol for travel-time estimation in a connected vehicle environment, the safety impacts of intervehicle warning information systems for moving hazards in connected vehicle environments, near-crash identification in a connected vehicle environment, and energy consumption reduction strategies…
Journal of Public Transportation Article in Volume 17, Issue 4 (2014) by Todd Litman. Public transportation is, overall, a relatively safe (low crash risk) and secure (low crime risk) transport mode. Transit travel has about one-tenth the traffic casualty (injury or death) rate as automobile travel, and residents of transit-oriented communities have about one fifth…