Polly Hanson, the former Metro Transit Police chief, will take over Amtrak’s police force next month.

Seventy-one of those tips required further action, such as interdepartmental investigation, as a result of the DHS-funded texting program.

With attacks on bus drivers up three percent from last year, Brooklyn bus drivers are rallying for more partitions and security cameras on the city buses. 

The new system will give trains up to a minute of warning before tremors are felt to slow down, which helps to prevent derailment and injury. 

A retroactive wage increase and a 2 percent lump sum payment will be given to each Metro special police officer, at an approximate cost of $797,621.

Phil Byrd of American Trucking Associations told a congressional subcommittee that security should be based on specific and credible intelligence.

Cruise ship industry institutes new security and safety rules, including more physical access controls, after accident in which captain is still under house arrest.

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority in California provides public transportation for more than 140,000 passengers a day. The VTA has approximately 1,700 employees supporting three bus divisions and a light rail division. The transportation system consists of about 600 low-floor buses that service 326 square miles of urbanized area daily and a light rail system which operates more than 100 low-floor light rail vehicles across 42.2 miles of rail.

Not surprisingly, the conversation about TSA privatization or opt out of federal run passenger and baggage screening usually focuses around four major concerns: customer service, customer complaint, wait time and staffing flexibility.