HRT Houston

2019 – 2022

• No New Projects

2018

1:  Reviewed available data and information and apply their expertise to determine causative factors and assert why METRO continue to have a higher accident rate.

• Review historical near miss and accident data from METRORail collisions with vehicles, pedestrians and bicyclist.
• Review accident and near miss data and safety mitigation efforts from these similar systems.
• Review prior safety assessments and audits of the METRORail system
• Conduct an on-site review of the METRORail system to further review the causative factors of METRORail collisions in an effort to determine factors attributing to the high accident rate.
• Review safety mitigations inherent in the system design and those additional mitigations installed to reduce or prevent METRORail collisions.
• Review automobile, pedestrian, and bicyclist regional crash data in each of the defined areas compared to the Houston region.
• Review insurance rates or statistics compiled by the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety.
• Review crash mitigation actions taken in the similar properties compared with those action taken in Houston.

Project Deliverable:

Provide a written summary of assessment and analysis of crash data to discuss similarities and differences in the identified systems and METRO.

2016 – 2017

• No new projects

2015

1:  Safety and Security Certification of the METRO HRT Light Rail Corridor Projects

Project Description:

• North Corridor: An LRT line from the Downtown Station to the existing Northline Transit Center consisting of 5.3 miles of double track with 8 stations and an elevated intermodal terminal (Burnett Plaza) near the intersection of Main Street and Burnett Street.
• Southeast Corridor: An LRT line from Capitol Street in downtown Houston to the Palms Center consisting of 6 miles of double track with 11 stations and a light rail vehicle storage facility.
• East End Corridor: An LRT line from a street connection with the Southeast Corridor near downtown Houston to a new end of line station at the Magnolia Transit Center consisting of 6 miles of double track with 5 stations and a service and inspection maintenance facility.

Key certification tasks accomplished:

• Safety and Security Design Criteria Conformance Checklist verification
• Construction specification conformance checklists verification for the civil, systems, and integrated testing for the remaining corridors
• Issued interim and/or final certification certificates for the following:
  • North Corridor; civil, stations, and systems
  • East Corridor; civil, stations, and systems
  • Southeast Corridor; civil, stations, and systems
  • Downtown Corridor; civil, stations, and systems
  • Storage and Inspections (S&I) maintenance facility and rail yard
  • Vehicle storage yard with administrative building
  • The new Rail Operational Center (ROC) at Transtar
  • Partial certification of Segment 1 on the East Corridor
• Active Safety and Security Certification Review Committee (SSCRC)
• Certification close-out year.

2013 – 2014

Key certification tasks accomplished:

• Issued interim safety and security certification certificates for the following:
  • North Corridor; civil, stations, and systems
  • Storage and Inspections (S&I) maintenance facility and rail yard
  • Vehicle storage yard with administrative building
• Issued the final Safety and Security Certification Certificate for the ROC maintenance facility modification
• Active Safety and Security Certification Review Committee (SSCRC)

2010 – 2012

1:  Safety and Security Certification of the METRO HRT Light Rail Corridor Projects

Key certification tasks accomplished:

• Draft Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHAs) review and approval
• Safety and Security Design Criteria Conformance Checklist verification, 12,966-line items of verification
• Final Threat and Vulnerability Assessment (TVA) approval
• Construction specification conformance checklists development
• Safety and Security Certification Review Committee (SSCRC)
• Fire Life Safety Review Committee
• Certification Training to Construction Managers