2019 – 2022
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
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