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Passenger-car design, and certain aviation and marine issues are the newest additions to the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) annual “most wanted” list of transportation safety improvements. The 2010 list includes 15 items and cites hundreds of open safety recommendations.

The NTSB added “improve transit rail-car design” to the list in light of several serious passenger-rail accidents that occurred last year, “notably the June 22 collision on Washington, D.C.’s system that killed nine people,” board members said in a prepared statement. A passenger car needs to withstand dynamic forces during an accident to protect riders, they said.

“In accident investigations in recent years, the board has noted telescoping of transit cars that have destroyed or greatly compromised survivable space,” NTSB members said.

The 2010 list also recommends that safety management systems be required for domestic marine vessels and oversight be improved for aviation pilot proficiency.