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12/15/2023
The National Transportation Safety Board's Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements will end in 2023 after serving as the focus of the agency's safety advocacy efforts for nearly 35 years.
"The Most Wanted List has served the NTSB well as an advocacy tool, especially in the days before social media, but our advocacy efforts must advance," said NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy in a news release. "Freed from the structure of a formal list, the NTSB can more nimbly advocate for our recommendations and emerging safety issues."
Since the list's creation in 1990, the NTSB has improved safety in various areas, including:• positive train control. Regulations requiring a full implementation of PTC by all railroads (and the subsequent 100% implementation); • fuel tank safety. Implementation of the board's safety recommendations on fuel tank inerting systems and the enactment of the FAA final rule related to the topic; and• crashworthiness improvements across all modes.
The list also addressed worker fatigue, hazardous material shipments and tank-car safety.