The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (DC) will unveil a safety tracking system next month that will detect hazardous trends in real time. The Safety Management System will update the current manual system, which uses paper reports and spreadsheets to identify and track patterns. The Washington Post quotes Metro chief safety officer James Dougherty:
“It’s significant. The plan is to reduce the manual labor and have as close to real-time data as you [can] get,” Dougherty said. The data were not integrated and had to be sifted by hand to discern any trends, Dougherty said. “If it was cumulative, it had to be done in a manual fashion.”
Project development and testing will cost about $600,000. Link to full story in The Washington Post.
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