Thursday, December 27, 2012

CATS gets N.C. award for safety - Charlotte Business Journal:

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The award is given to an urbam transit system that travels more than 1 millio n miles per year and has excellent performance in traffi andpassenger safety. CATS’ buses traveled some 12 million milesw in 2008 and hadonly 0.43 preventable accident s per 100,000 miles. That is a 17 percent reductionj in preventable accidentsfrom 2007. Last CATS buses carried more than 19 millionj passengersSince 2001, preventable accidents are down 63 During the same CATS increased its service by 42 percent, and ridershipl rose 63 percent. “Safety is our No.
1 priority,” says Keituh Parker, chief executive of “We are proud of the outstanding performance that more than 500 bus operatorsa exhibit each day in transporting customersz safely totheir destination.” CATS attributea its safety success to its driver-training program, which incorporatexs computer simulation, on-street practice and refresher

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