Resolution adopting the Transit Safety Plan Update.

Adoption of the attached resolution.

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) published the National Public Transportation Safety Plan Version 2 in April 2024. It requires public transportation agencies to develop and review annually the Agency Safety Plan, including safety performance measures, to maintain eligibility for funding assistance under the Urbanized Area Formula Grant (49 U.S.C. 5307). Staff have completed the update of the Safety Plan, including the Safety Management Policy Statement which is to be signed by the Accountable Executive annually. 

As described in the National Public Transportation Safety Plan, transit providers must establish fourteen Safety Performance Targets by mode. Small, urbanized area transit systems, serving populations of 200,000 or less, have no requirement to meet safety performance targets.

 

Fixed Route	Performance Year					Annual
Performance Category	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026	Average	Target
Major Events	2	3	4			3	5
Major Event Rate	0.604	0.935	1.085			0.875	1.36
Collisions	N/A	N/A	3			3	5
Collision Rate	N/A	N/A	0.814			0.814	1.36
Pedestrian Collision Rate	N/A	N/A	0.000			0.000	0.27
Vehicular Collision Rate	N/A	N/A	0.814			0.814	1.09
Fatalities	0	0	0			0	0
Fatality Rate	0.000	0.000	0.000			0.000	0.00
Transit Worker Fatality Rate	N/A	N/A	0.000			0.000	0.00
Injuries	0	2	2			1.333	3
Injury Rate	0.000	0.623	0.543			0.389	0.81
Transit Worker Injury Rate	N/A	N/A	0.543			0.543	0.54
Assaults on Transit Workers	N/A	N/A	0			0	1
Rate of Assaults on Transit Workers	N/A	N/A	0.000			0.000	0.27
Major Mechanical System Failures	33	34	39			35	N/A
Vehicle Revenue Miles	330,871	320,853	368,582			340,102
System Reliability	10,026	9,437	9,451			9,638	10,000

 
 

Non-Fixed Route	Performance Year					Annual
Performance Category	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026	Average	Target
Major Events	2	1	2			2	2
Major Event Rate	1.016	0.482	1.116			0.872	1.12
Collisions	N/A	N/A	0			0	4
Collision Rate	N/A	N/A	0.000			0.000	2.23
Pedestrian Collision Rate	N/A	N/A	0.000			0.000	0.56
Vehicular Collision Rate	N/A	N/A	0.000			0.000	1.67
Fatalities	0	0	0			0	0
Fatality Rate	0.000	0.000	0.000			0.000	0.00
Transit Worker Fatality Rate	N/A	N/A	0.000			0.000	0.00
Injuries	2	1	1			1.333	4
Injury Rate	1.016	0.482	0.558			0.686	2.23
Transit Worker Injury Rate	N/A	N/A	1.116			1.116	1.12
Assaults on Transit Workers	N/A	N/A	0			0	1
Rate of Assaults on Transit Workers	N/A	N/A	0.000			0.000	0.56
Major Mechanical System Failures	12	34	10			19	N/A
Vehicle Revenue Miles	196,843	207,354	179,135			194,444
System Reliability	16,404	6,099	17,914			13,472	10,000

A reportable event is one that meets any National Transit Database reporting threshold and occurs at a transit revenue facility, maintenance facility; on public transit right-of-way or infrastructure; during a transit-related maintenance activity; or involves a transit revenue vehicle. Events may meet multiple reporting thresholds. 

The reporting thresholds include the following:

• Fatalities confirmed within 30 days of the event, including suicides.
• Injuries include any harm to one or more persons who are transported away from the scene through any means for medical attention.
• Property damage equal to or exceeding $25,000, includes cost of clearing wreckage and all other vehicles and property involved
• Collisions that meet a fatality, injury, property damage, or evacuation threshold; involving a transit revenue vehicle and the towing away of any vehicles from the scene; including suicides or attempted suicides, assaults, or homicides resulting in an injury or fatality that involve contact with a transit vehicle or collisions that do not involve a transit revenue vehicle but meet a threshold.
• Evacuation of a transit facility or vehicle for life-safety reasons.
• An assault on a transit worker is a circumstance in which an individual knowingly, without lawful authority or permission, and with intent to endanger the safety of any individual, or with a reckless disregard for the safety of human life, interferes with, disables, or incapacitates a transit worker while the transit worker is performing the duties of the transit worker.
• Physical: An assault in which the attack involved physical contact with the transit worker. This could include any physical contact with the victim from the attacker’s body, a weapon, a projectile or other item (e.g., spitting).
• Non-Physical: An assault in which the attack involves no physical contact with the transit worker. This could include threats, intimidation, or interference that do not result in any physical contact with the transit worker. 

Safety performance target rates per 100,000 vehicle revenue miles were adjusted based on Mankato’s 2024 vehicle revenue miles for fixed route and non-fixed route. 

The entire plan will be reproduced and distributed to the Federal Transit Administration, Minnesota Department of Transportation Office of Transit and Active Transportation, and the Mankato/North Mankato Area Planning Organization. All documents are required to be maintained for three years.