Legal Aspects of Transit and Intermodal Transportation Programs. Topic 19-02. Legal Issues and Emerging Technologies

Many benefits could be realized by U.S. public transportation agencies from implementing advanced and emerging technologies such as positive train control, electric buses, on-demand technology, open architecture concept for fare collection system, and enterprise asset management. Some of these technologies have significant implications for service delivery models and have the potential to radically change how public transportation systems are used in the future and question the relevancy of public transportation systems as presently structured. Technology is rapidly changing public transportation so transportation attorneys will need to exercise due diligence as they navigate the consideration and adoption of emerging technology. Transit attorneys are faced with questions related to the process by which due diligence is conducted and the legal issues that should be addressed within the existing regulatory and legislative framework. Research is needed to help transportation attorneys navigate common legal challenges within the emerging technology field. The objective of this project is to produce a legal research digest that provides transportation attorneys with guidance and resources to assist with the legal changes that will result from the consideration and implementation of advanced and emerging technologies. This digest should include the legal approaches taken and why, how they were implemented, problems encountered, resulting changes in practice, and lessons learned.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4819
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract to a performing organization had not yet been awarded.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Proposed
• Funding: $50000
• Contract Numbers:

  Project J-05, Topic 19-02

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Transit Cooperative Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC    20001

  Federal Transit Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Project Managers:

  Chisholm-Smith, Gwen

• Start Date: 20200303
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Implementation; Legal factors; Public transit; Risk management; Technological innovations; Transit operating agencies
• Subject Areas: Law; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01712250
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project J-05, Topic 19-02
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 22 2019 3:30PM