UITP and New Jersey Transit are organizing a training on Safety and Reliability Management in Public Transport on 23-25 September 2026 in New Jersey, USA.
Safety and reliability are crucial and indispensable characteristics of all modes of public transport systems as well as bus and rail. They are the most important ones for ensuring people to use public transport services.
Safety management systems, including risk and crisis management, play pivotal roles to be ready for emergency cases and act according to roles and responsibility defined in the safety plans and procedures.
In railways all safety activities in project life cycle defined in a set of standards called RAMS. Similarly, there are safety standards applicable to buses as well.
What You Will Learn
Understand the key elements of safety in public transport
Explain the fundamentals of risk and crisis management
Develop and implement a safety management system to ensure system and people safety
Learning about inspection and monitoring and safety audits with international best practices
Understanding how to safety data for accidents prevention
Get to learn what the hazards and risks are
Who is it for?
Executives, managers, supervisors, and coordinators from public transport service providers
City governors, directors or managers from city authorities
Relevant staff from public transport operators, authorities or the manufacturer and stakeholders
Professionals interested in obtaining a wider and international perspective in bus safety and eager to learn more from best practice worldwide The course welcomes junior and senior professionals worldwide.
Programme
Welcome & Opening Session
09:00
Session 1
Safety in urban public transport is crucial for enhancing the safety of passengers, staff and the systems. A safe public transport system contributes to increased ridership, reliability of the services, and minimizing accidents and incidents.
Safety and Security Concepts
Safety and security pillars
Security challenges and good practices
Public transport security objectives
Engineered Safety-In Design
Safety – active/passive safety
Coffee Break
10:30
Session 2
System Safety Acceptance in urban rail, as outlined in the RAMS standards (specifically EN 50126), is a critical phase in which a railway system must be formally approved and accepted as safe before it enters initial operation. This process ensures that all safety requirements, reliability, availability, and maintainability goals have been met, and the system is ready for public use.
RAMS
Safety Assurance System
Project V-Cycle
Performance and Safety, RAMS, parameters
Lunch
12:00
Session 3
Risk Management:
Preliminary Hazard Analysis,
Risk assessment
Risk Matrix
Risk acceptance criteria
Hazard Log
FTA, Fault tree analysis
Safety Integrity Level, SIL for railway
Session 4
Driver Safety
Passenger Safety
Road Safety
Vehicle Safety: Assistive Technology on Safety
End of Day 1
15:00
Session 5
Definition of safety audit
Safety Audit objectives
Safety Audit types and techniques
Examples of Safety Audit
Session 6
Introducing the workshop
Coffee Break
10:30
Session 7
Prevention is key to avoiding safety problems in PT systems, but when prevention fails- a clear plan needs to be in place to deal with any emergency or crisis. Response plans need to define roles and responsibilities during incidents and clarify procedures and protocols to be followed, also in coordination with external parties, such as emergency responders and law enforcement agencies.
Creation of monitoring system for drivers and vehicles
Inspection plans and criteria
Site inspections and inspectors
Tools to use for inspections and monitoring
Roles and responsibility of inspectors and OCC
Coffee Break
10:30
Session 11
Given a scenario or visiting metro stations / taking a bus or metro ride, participants will identify the hazards, assessing the hazards, creating risk matrix and mitigate the risks.
Note: After discussing with RTA workshop type (in class or site) will be decided. Timing will be revised accordingly.
Lunch
12:00
Session 12
Participants will present their risk assessment/safety audits and how they mitigate risks to ensure public transport is safe.
Session 13
Life Cycle Cost Analysis is a tool to show you the way when you come to a decision-making point if there is more than one option. This can be during the procurement process or renewal process. It is crucial to define RAMS target clearly to do life cycle cost analysis more precisely.
RAMS and LCC
Relations of RAMS parameters with LCCA
Importance of using LCCA: Decision Making
LCC Stages and project phase
Cost Distributions
Total Cost of Ownership, TCO
Defining KPI’s for evaluations
Wrap-up & Conclusions
15:30
End of training program
16:00
A Top Level Methodology
Get inspired by our trainers, understand the main concepts and learn from successful best practice
Participate in interactive plenary sessions with introductions by course leaders, presentations by trainers and open discussions with participants
Challenge your practical knowledge on safety, risk management, crisis management and safety audits
Address the topic from an international perspective, enriched by different cultural approaches and points of view
Participate in practical exercises and case studies and local context
Benefit from a unique exchange of knowledge and experience between professionals
UITP Training Programmes and all related processes are certified for ISO 21001: 2018 – the standard for Educational organisations – Management systems for educational organisations.
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