The complete transit safety management and performance measurement guidebook. Transit ridership continued its 5‐year record increase reaching 10.7 billion trips in 2008, the highest level of ridership in 52 years. Meanwhile, the public transportation fatality rate, expressed in fatalities per 100 million passenger‐ miles, has leveled‐off in recent years. Therefore the statistical reality is that as the industry grows and the passenger‐miles increase, the total numbers of fatalities and serious accidents will also increase. While the current rates of fatalities and accidents are low compared to other modes of surface transportation, any appreciable increase in the number of fatalities would be […]