SUBJECT:
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Approval of a resolution approving the CapMetro Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (“the Plan”), authorizing the President & CEO, or her designee, to finalize and execute the Plan, and setting a program to provide relevant and useful information to the Board of Directors.
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FISCAL IMPACT:
This action has no fiscal impact.
STRATEGIC PLAN:
Strategic Goal Alignment:
☒ 1. Customer ☒ 2. Community
☒ 3. Workforce ☒ 4. Organizational Effectiveness
Strategic Objectives:
☒ 1.1 Safe & Reliable Service ☒1.2 High Quality Customer Experience ☐ 1.3 Accessible System
☐ 2.1 Support Sustainable Regional Growth ☐ 2.2 Become a Carbon Neutral Agency
☒ 2.3 Responsive to Community and Customer Needs ☐ 2.4 Regional Leader in Transit Planning
☐ 3.1 Diversity of Staff ☐ 3.2 Employer of Choice ☒ 3.3 Expand Highly Skilled Workforce
☐ 4.1 Fiscally Responsible and Transparent ☒ 4.2 Culture of Safety ☐ 4.3 State of Good Repair
EXPLANATION OF STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT: The Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan provides strategic direction to the President & CEO and CapMetro as whole with regard to safety and security priorities of the CapMetro Board and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).
BUSINESS CASE: Federal regulation requires operators of public transportation systems that receive FTA funds to develop and implement a Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) and review, update and approve the PTASP annually.
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION: This item will be presented to the full board on December 16, 2024.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) regulation (49 CFR Part 673) requires certain operators of public transportation systems that receive federal funds under the FTA Urbanized Area Formula Grants to develop an Agency Safety Plan (ASP) that includes the processes and procedures to implement a Safety Management Systems (SMS), a comprehensive, collaborative, and systematic approach to managing safety. CapMetro’s ASP was approved by the CapMetro Board in May 2020, and Revision #1 and #2 were approved the subsequent years.
CapMetro’s Agency Safety Plan addresses all general requirements for Agency Safety Plan and did warrant significant changes in the 2024 review period. Revision #3 for CapMetro’s ASP includes the following:
Updated requirements and language per the FTA’s National Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (Version 2; April 2024):
• Safety Performance Targets: Seven new targets, including collision rates, pedestrian incidents, transit worker fatalities, and assault rates, based on a three-year data average.
• Safety Risk Reduction Program: Focused on reducing vehicle, pedestrian, and transit worker incidents with specific mitigations, such as improved visibility and assault prevention technologies. Refinements to processes and procedures to support CapMetro’s proactive safety management. Annual tweaks and updates to processes is in alignment with industry best practices.
The joint labor-management safety committee will review and consider approval of Agency Safety Plan on TBD, after which, it will be presented to CapMetro Board for review and approval.
DBE/SBE PARTICIPATION: Does not apply.
PROCUREMENT: Does not apply.
RESPONSIBLE DEPARTMENT: Safety
RESOLUTION
OF THE
CAPITAL METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF TRAVIS
#AI-2024-1339
WHEREAS, the Federal Transit Administration requires the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (CapMetro) to establish a Safety Management Policy; and for its President & CEO and Board of Directors to approve its Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP);
WHEREAS, the purpose of this policy is to establish CapMetro’s commitment to implementing, developing and improving strategies, management systems and processes to ensure that CapMetro systems uphold the highest level of safety performance and meet regulatory standards;
WHEREAS, the PTASP is required to be reviewed annually and the annual review identified revisions described within the plan collectively as Revision No. 3, and the revisions are necessary to ensure an industry leading PTASP and full compliance with Federal Transit Administration National Public Transportation Safety Plan (Version 2; April 2024).
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the CapMetro Board of Directors approves the CapMetro Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (“the Plan”) and authorizes the President & CEO, or her designee, to finalize and execute the Plan and set a program to provide relevant and useful information to the Board of Directors.
____________________ Date: ____________________
Secretary of the Board
Becki Ross