Deadline extended for abstracts – Transit Safety and Security Conference and APTA’s Mid-Year Safety and Security Seminar – CUTR – Center for Urban Transportation Research

Deadline extended to Monday, June 1, 2020.

TRB’s National Transit Safety and Security Conference and APTA’s Mid-Year Safety and Security Seminar will be held on November 16-18, 2020 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. The event will include presentations on successful outcomes and lessons learned from safety and security policy and procedure modifications and technology pilots and deployments. It will also include presentations on actionable one-world transit and passenger rail safety and security research findings. The link to the registration and a call for abstracts is below.

The call covers the following topics:

Emergency Management and Response
Civil Unrest or other Security Response
Continuity of Operations Planning
Emergency Operations Center Coordination and Communication
Natural Disaster Response
Training for Employees and other First Responders
Passenger and Public Safety
Crashworthiness of Fixed Route and Paratransit Buses
Highway/Rail Crossing Collisions
Reducing Passenger Injuries
Reducing Mobility Device and Lift Injuries
Technologies to Reduce Collision Events
Transit Employee Safety
Bus/Rail Employee Assaults
Employee Health and Wellness
Maintenance Employees and Service of Advance Systems, Including Electric Buses
Right of Way Worker Protection Systems and Practices
Transit Security Challenges
Cyber Threats to Connected System Technologies
Human Trafficking Awareness
Persons Who Are Homeless