Transportation Research Board

So there's this new report that you both worked on called Lithium Ion Battery Transit Bus Fire Prevention and Risk Management, and that will be made public soon, I'm told.

The report was prepared for the Transit Cooperative Research Program, part of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

What were some of the primary questions that this project was trying to answer?

So I'll start with that and I'll let Adam chime in.

So coming from the Transportation Research Board, they were representing a lot of the transit agencies throughout the United States.

A lot of them had these transition goals to transition their fleets to electric.

And there's big regulatory gaps right now.

Our presenter today is Dr. Sarah Jones.

Sarah is an internationally recognized expert on road safety, compliance and enforcement, and currently sits on the Truck and Bus Safety Committee at the Transportation Research Board in Washington.

She's an accredited mental health officer and sits on the advisory board of the Healthy Heads in Trucks and Sheds, and on the steering committee of the National Road Safety Partnership Program.

Welcome to Sarah and over to David, our project manager, for the introduction.