Phase 1 Safety Management Plan (SMP) - California Association for Coordinated Transportation ITS4US Deployment Project

693JJ321C000007The CALACT ITS4US project addresses the clear need for riders who use demand-responsive services, including riders with disabilities, to have equal access to the real-time trip planning technology that is already available for urban fixed-route transit. This Safety Management Plan (SMP) for Phase 1 of the project encapsulates its consideration for the safety needs and risks in how travelers and others interact with the proposed system within California, Oregon, and Washington. The document lays out various safety scenarios detailing under what situations safety may be impacted, the severity of the risks related to those impacts, and what the project team plans to do to prevent and mitigate those impacts. While the \u201cConcept of Operations\u201d serves as the primary informative input for the Safety Management Plan, stakeholder engagement also informs how the project team assesses risk severity rankings and function as part of the feedback loop to ensure all safety concerns are addressed. The research and development that has gone into this project has been performed by a broad team of technology and transit experts in collaboration with stakeholders including transit operators and riders, and builds from the ongoing work of the community of rural and specialized transportation technology practitioners over the last decade. The SMP will be succeeded by additional plans which will further develop the proposal into a detailed system ready to be implemented