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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Meeting Agendas." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Admissibility and Public Availability of Transit Safety Planning Records. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25144.
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49 Appendix Meeting Agendas Meeting 1 April 24–25, 2017 Keck Center of the National Academies, Washington, D.C. Monday, April 24, 2017 CLOSED SESSION 8:30 Introduction and conflict/bias discussion • Steve Godwin and Katherine Kortum, Transportation Research Board (TRB) OPEN SESSION 9:30 Federal Transit Administration (FTA) presentations on safety data protection • Michael Coplen, Candace Key, and Aloha Ley, FTA 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Presentations

50 ADMISSIBILITY AND AVAILABILITY OF TRANSIT SAFETY PLANNING RECORDS 1:00 Federal Highway Administration (FHWA): Section 409 and road safety audits • Jennifer Mayo and Hannah Needleman, FHWA 1:45 Congressional staff • Homer Carlisle and Jen Deci, Senate Banking Committee • Caryn Lund and Auke Mahar-Piersma, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee 2:30 American Public Transportation Association (APTA) • Linda Ford, APTA 3:15 Break 3:30 Federal Railroad Administration report on protecting railroad safety risk reduction program information • Kirk Van Tine, Baker Botts 4:15 Plaintiff’s trial lawyer perspective: Medical • Paul Rheingold, Rheingold Giuffra Ruffo & Plotkin LLP 5:00 Adjourn Tuesday, April 25, 2017 CLOSED SESSION 8:30 Committee discussion • Brainstorm all issues the study must address • Develop draft work plan and proposed schedule 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Adjourn

APPENDIX: AGENDAS 51 Meeting 2 July 13–14, 2017 Keck Center of the National Academies, Washington, D.C. Thursday, July 13, 2017 OPEN SESSION 9:00 Transit panel • Rita Roberts-Turner, Chief Administrative Officer, Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority • Karen Seimetz, General Counsel, Chicago Transit Authority • Gregory Skillman, Senior Deputy General Counsel, TriMet (Portland) 10:30 Break 10:45 Committee discussion with transit agency representatives 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Safety management systems discussion with FTA • Michael Coplen, Office of Transit Safety and Oversight, FTA • Candace Key, Office of Chief Counsel, FTA • Aloha Ley, Office of Safety Assurance and Risk Management, FTA 2:30 Break 2:45 Discussion panel • Keira McNett, Associate General Counsel, Amalgamated Transit Union • John Milton, Director, Quality Assurance and Transportation System Safety, Washington State Department of Transportation • Lawrence Simon, Partner, Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins, PC 5:00 Adjourn

52 ADMISSIBILITY AND AVAILABILITY OF TRANSIT SAFETY PLANNING RECORDS Friday, July 14, 2017 CLOSED SESSION 9:00 Committee discussion • Thoughts from Day 1 discussion • Review strawman report outline • Information needs for next meeting 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Adjourn

APPENDIX: AGENDAS 53 Meeting 3 September 18–19, 2017 Keck Center of the National Academies, Washington, D.C. Monday, September 18, 2017 OPEN SESSION 9:00 Committee discussion with Sawyer Baker, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Riders’ Advisory Council 10:00 Committee discussion with Volpe • Jordan Multer, Surface Transportation Human Factors expert 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Committee discussion with Utah Transit Authority (UTA) about safety management • Dave Goeres, UTA Chief Safety, Security, and Technology Officer 2:30 Break 2:45 FTA staff discussion and comparison with Federal Aviation Administration • Kim Burtch, Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety and Oversight, FTA • Lynn Spencer, Director, Office of System Safety, FTA 4:30 Adjourn Tuesday, September 19, 2017 CLOSED SESSION 9:00 Committee discussion • Thoughts from Day 1 discussion • Review report outline and initial draft • Work plan for drafting 12:00 Lunch and adjourn

54 ADMISSIBILITY AND AVAILABILITY OF TRANSIT SAFETY PLANNING RECORDS Meeting 4 December 7–8, 2017 Beckman Center of the National Academies, Irvine, California Thursday, December 7, 2017 CLOSED SESSION (Breaks to be called by chair as needed) 9:00 Committee review of findings and recommendations chapter 12:00 Lunch 1:00 Committee review of background report chapters 5:00 Adjourn Friday, December 8, 2017 CLOSED SESSION (Breaks to be called by chair as needed) 9:00 Committee review of findings and recommendations 12:00 Lunch and adjourn

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In 2012, Congress gave the U.S. Federal Transit Administration (FTA) the authority to establish a new comprehensive framework to oversee the safety of the country’s public transit systems. As part of that framework, state and local transit agencies are required to engage in safety planning. In the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act of 2015, Congress asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to evaluate and provide recommendations on whether it is in the public interest for transit agencies to be allowed to withhold from civil litigation all records developed in compliance with this new federal safety planning requirement.

TRB Special Report 326: Admissibility and Public Availability of Transit Safety Planning Records considers the arguments favoring and opposing evidentiary protections for safety planning records and the rationale for Congressional decisions to grant such protections in other transportation modes. The report examines factors that Congress must consider when deciding where the public interest balance lies. They include a desire for transit agencies to engage in high-quality safety planning without fear of the planning records being used against them in court and the preservation of a tort system that deters unsafe conditions and allows injured parties to be justly compensated. Recommendations to Congress and FTA are offered with these and other important factors in mind.

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