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Solving Critical Transportation Safety Challenges

For more than 65 years, MITRE has made significant improvements to worldwide commercial and general aviation safety. Today, we’re applying that safety knowledge and experience to make all modes of transportation safer—from surface to space.

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MITRE knows safety. It’s our mission.

Ensuring the safety of the American public is at the heart of everything we do. The transportation you use every day, the roads and rails and airways you travel—MITRE is there to create the safest, most efficient systems in the world.

MITRE’s mission-focused, systems thinking approach is the foundation for the comprehensive and innovative safety solutions, tools, processes, and training we provide to our sponsors and public and private sector partners worldwide. Our work is powered by mission-focused domain experts across 16 MITRE Labs Innovation Centers and six federally funded research and development centers.

To learn more, contact us a transportation@mitre.org.

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IMPROVING SAFETY CULTURE

Safety culture is critical in every transportation mode. We have decades of experience helping organizations implement effective safety management practices.

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DEVELOPING AND ASSESSING SAFETY TECHNOLOGY

With the accelerating pace of innovation, communications and networking, autonomy, artificial intelligence, and real-time alerting, the focus on safety technology is intensifying. MITRE can help.

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PROVIDING WORLD-CLASS SAFETY MANAGEMENT SERVICES

As a leading expert in safety management systems (SMS)—a proven systematic approach for managing risk—MITRE offers SMS effectiveness evaluation and improvement services needed to achieve that goal.

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APPLYING ANALYTICS AND AI TO REDUCE RISK

MITRE has tapped into the power of data to provide the transportation industry with a suite of tools that work to enhance safety in the air and on the ground

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MODERNIZING POLICY, CERTIFICATION, AND RULEMAKING

Rapid, unrelenting change is redefining our transportation systems, calling for new policies and procedures to ensure the safety of our roads, rails, and skies. MITRE looks at critical issues, evaluates alternatives, and recommends actionable change. 

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CONNECTING AND ADVISING STAKEHOLDERS

MITRE is a trusted partner in uniting stakeholders to ensure safety across transportation systems and enable informed decision making.