Safety, Security & Emer Mgmt.
This new requirement is often referred to as SMS.
What is the Safety Management System?
This famous movie quote: "Pop Quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?" is from what movie.
What is Speed (1994)?
This is how a railroad switch works.
What is a device that enables a rail vehicle to move from one track to another?
This annual APTA event challenges bus operators and maintenance teams’ skills.
What is the International Bus Roadeo?
This program publishes documents that establish specifications and procedures designed to ensure the reliability of the materials, products, methods, and/or services used in public transportation.
What is the APTA Standards Program?
DHS recommends these actions during an active shooter incident.
What is "run, hide, and fight"?
This Liam Neeson film turned a train ride into an action-pack, thrill-ride of gratuitous violence and endless one liners.
What is the Commuter (2018)?
This is a safety initiative that the Commuter rail industry is spending $4.1B on.
What is PTC (Positive Train Control)?
This APTA Standards document is the most viewed and downloaded document annually.
What is the Standard Bus Procurement Guidelines?
Sarah, Christopher, Ashley, Wendy, Ariana, Michael, Jack, Elle, and Nick Coddington all share this activity in common.
What are internships?
Do this when you see something suspicious in the metro.
What is see something, say something or text the transit police (MyMTPD - 696873) or tell a metro employee? You can reach MTPD at (202) 962-2121.
A Spike Lee film about a group of African-American men who are taking a cross-country trip in order to participate in the Million Man March.
What is Get on the Bus (1996)?
This APTA event challenges Rail operators and maintenance teams’ skills.
What is the International Rail Rodeo?
This deep dive workshop for those of the mechanical persuasion is held annually with the Mobility Conference.
What is Maintenance Monday?
This program offers transit members an opportunity to have industry help out with an issue.
What is the Peer Review Program?
The deadline for all US Transit Agencies to have a Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan in place by.
What is July 20, 2020?
Holiday Hijinks with this comedy odd couple starring Steve Martin and John Candy.
What is Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)?
Mass transit systems utilize a system called SCADA to control and manage subway, light rail, streetcar, passenger rail, and related infrastructure. What does SCADA stand for?
What is "supervisory control and data acquisition"?
This working group is updating Standards documents on Stations, Service Design, Running Ways & Branding.
What is the Bus Rapid Transit Standards Working Group?
True or false, only APTA members can participate in the Standards Program.
What is false?
This is the cause of most bus operator assaults.
What is a fare dispute?
Agatha Christie's classic showcasing the remarkable deductive powers of Hercule Poirot in this murder mystery.
What is Murder on the Orient Express (2017)?
This Federal Agency founded in 1964 has contributed to a regulatory separation of rail modes.
What is the Urban Mass Transit Administration (now known as FTA)?
This factor causes the biggest reduction in a bus' battery range.
What is low (ambient) temperature?
This is the total number of committees, technical forums and working groups managed by Technical Services & Innovations staff?
What is 90?
51 - Committees/sub-committees,
12 - Technical forums,
27 - Working group