Policing and Public Transportation
Compliance with transit-equipment and operations guidelines, FTA financing initiatives, private-sector programs, and labor or environmental standards relating to transit operations are some of the legal issues and problems unique to transit agencies.
The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's
TCRP Legal Research Digest 58: Policing and Public Transportation
provides a comprehensive analysis of constitutional
issues and summarizes current laws and practices that
apply
to policing by public transportation agencies.
Supplemental to the Digest is
Appendix A: Agreements, Policies, Reports, and Other Documents Provided by Public Transportation Authorities for the Report.
This Summary Last Modified On: 7/18/2022