Welcome to the
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.
TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web Only Document 70: Improving the Resilience of Transit Systems Threatened by Natural Disasters, Volume 1: A Guide offers practices for transit systems of all sizes to absorb the impacts of disaster, recover quickly, and return rapidly to providing the services that customers rely on to meet their travel…
TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 114: Synthesis of Information Related to Transit Practices is a digest of the progress and status of TCRP Project J-7, “Synthesis of Information Related to Transit Practices,” for which the Transportation Research Board is the agency conducting the research. View Research Digest
TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Report 195: Broadening Understanding of the Interplay Among Public Transit, Shared Mobility, and Personal Automobiles explores the effects of app-based transportation network companies on the cities in which they operate, including on public transit ridership, single-occupancy vehicle trips, and traffic congestion. Built upon the findings of TCRP Research Report…
TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Report 194: Knowledge Management Resource to Support Strategic Workforce Development for Transit Agencies explores the importance of knowledge management (KM), which is an organization’s process for collecting, storing, and sharing organizational information and knowledge, and provides guidance on implementing KM strategies in transit agencies. In addition, the guidance…
This volume consists of 10 papers that explore public transportation, including: Optimization Model for Transit Signal Priority Under Conflicting Priority Requests; Identifying Factors That Increase Bus Accident Risk by Using Random Forests and Trip-Level Data; Test and Evaluation of Systems to Warn Pedestrians of Turning Buses; and Integrated Analysis System for Rural National Transit Database.…
This compilation of papers covers several safety topics related to rail design and operations. View Report
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 215: Incident Command System (ICS) Training for Field-Level Supervisors and Staff provides training materials and guidance for transportation field personnel to help their organizations operate safely in an emergency or traffic management event. This course is intended to review the basic ICS structures and terminologies aimed…
This issue consists of 18 papers that examine resilience and climate change issues, as it relates to transportation, including: Resilience of Coastal Transportation Networks Faced with Extreme Climatic Events; Analysis of Transportation Network Vulnerability Under Flooding Disasters; Vulnerability Evaluation of Logistics Transportation Networks Under Seismic Disasters; Integrating Stochastic Failure of Road Network and Road Recovery…
The Journal of the Transportation Research Board No. 2516 has 11 papers concerned with operator education and regulation, safe mobility for older persons, traffic law enforcement, or alcohol and other drugs. View Report
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 215: Incident Command System (ICS) Training for Field-Level Supervisors and Staff provides training materials and guidance for transportation field personnel to help their organizations operate safely in an emergency or traffic management event. This course is intended to review the basic ICS structures and terminologies aimed…