ANALYSIS OF FLORIDA TRANSIT BUS ACCIDENTS

The safe operation of public transit vehicles is of utmost importance to the transit agency, its employees and passengers. Most transit agencies have hundreds of accidents per year. While each accident may be reviewed carefully as an individual incident, at many Florida transit systems there has been very little formal analysis of all accidents on an aggregate basis, and a tool to identify the effectiveness of capital and operational safety campaigns. The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Research Ideas project on System Safety Plans and Accident Tracking Analysis completed in 1999, recommended that all Florida transit systems begin collecting a core set of accident characteristics to be monitored and analyzed on a statewide basis. This project uses this data to track and analyze accident occurrences and causal factors for many of the medium-size transit systems in Florida. In addition, a data-based tool was developed for medium transit systems to easily track and analyze their accident data in aggregate over time, and it is included in the Appendix A and the NCTR website. This will allow the agency to be able to identify trends in occurrences and the effectiveness of safety programs.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.5038/CUTR-NCTR-RR-2003-16
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/44223
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/57615054
• Corporate Authors:

  National Center for Transit Research

  Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of South Florida
  4202 East Fowler Avenue, CUT 100
  Tampa, FL  United States  33620

  Research and Special Programs Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Florida Department of Transportation

  605 Suwannee Street
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32399-0450
• Authors:
  • Sapper, D B
  • Page, O
• Publication Date: 2004-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 84 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus crashes; Crash analysis; Crash characteristics; Crash data; Data collection; Public transit; Transit safety
• Geographic Terms: Florida
• Subject Areas: Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00986353
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 527-11
• Contract Numbers: DTRS98-G-0032
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Feb 9 2005 12:00AM