Setting and monitoring safety targets for urban rail transport

Urban rail transport is a new field of activity for the supervisory authority. Partly for this reason, the supervisory authority has so far not intervened in the development of operators' safety management systems or the safety situation in the sector in general. The authority has not prepared safety performance indicators, nor does it systematically monitor the safety situation and deviation reports submitted by transport operators.

The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency define safety targets and their monitoring methods for metro and tram traffic.

Based on the investigation, metro and tram traffic cannot be treated as a single entity due to their technical and operational differences and, in particular, differences in operating environments. For example, tram traffic has many characteristics of road traffic. For this reason, metro and tram traffic require different safety performance indicators.

Urban rail transport is a new field of activity for the supervisory authority. Partly for this reason, the supervisory authority has so far not intervened in the development of operators' safety management systems or the safety situation in the sector in general. The authority has not prepared safety performance indicators, nor does it systematically monitor the safety situation and deviation reports submitted by transport operators.