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Abbreviations in this issue:
FRA - Federal Railroad Administration
PTC - Positive Train Control
- Rail Safety: Preliminary Observations on Federal Rail Safety Oversight and Positive Train Control Implementation - This statement discusses FRA's oversight of rail safety, challenges to rail safety, and PTC implementation by the U.S. rail industry.
- Potential Impacts of Federal Health Care Reform on Public Transit - This report explores provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that are likely to have the largest and most direct impacts on public transit agencies and operations, particularly those in rural and small urban areas. The report also describes pre-existing legal requirements that govern the roles public transit can currently play in transportation related to health care.
- The Critical Infrastructure Gap: U.S. Port Facilities and Cyber Vulnerabilities - This paper discusses the reliance of U.S. port facilities on networked computer and control systems and the current state of cybersecurity awareness and culture in selected U.S. ports.
- Use of Advance Geospatial Data, Tools, Technologies, and Information in Department of Transportation Projects - This report explores the development, documentation, and introduction of advanced geospatial technologies within departments of transportation. The report also provides a discussion of strengths and weaknesses of leading technologies, and how they are being used today.
- Miscellaneous Reports
- Sustainable Communities HotReport - This HotReport provides a variety of sustainability indicators - transportation, housing, economic development, income and equity - for communities around the country.
- California Voting and Suburbanization Patterns: Implications for Transit Policy - This report analyzes the results of a survey on transportation preferences of California citizens relating to a shift to suburbanization, in an effort to better understand the preferences and needs of citizens and how trends will affect transit in the future.
For further information contact Monica Zhong or phone (850) 414-4808
