This is a directed grant to the Short Line Safety Institute (SLSI) to investigate the extent to which SLSI's safety culture assessment process can be adapted and applied to Commuter Operations.

SLSI's research-based, rigorous safety culture assessment model has been applied to Class

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II and Class III freight railroads.

FRA seeks to determine whether the model is adaptable to other segments of the railroad industry, like Commuter Operations.