Human Trafficking Topic Guide

Human Trafficking

The resources in this topic guide will help raise awareness of human trafficking in the transportation industry and assist transit agencies and other transportation stakeholders to identify and report victims of human trafficking.

FTA and U.S. DOT Resources

FTA's Human Trafficking Awareness and Public Safety Initiative 

FTA's Human Trafficking Prevention Webinar, 2024

U.S. DOT's Compendium of Transport-Specific Human Trafficking State and Territory Laws, 2024, Preventing and Addressing Human Trafficking in the Transportation Sector, 2024, Transit Sector Counter-Trafficking Toolkit, 2025, Commercial Bus Sector Counter-Trafficking Toolkit, 2025, and

Human Trafficking 101, 2026.

National RTAP Resources

On-Ramps, Intersections, and Exit Routes: A Roadmap for Transit Agencies to Prevent and Disrupt Human Trafficking, 2019

States Combating Human Trafficking Best Practices, 2023

Transit and Human Trafficking eLearning course, 2019

Additional Resources

American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) Human Trafficking web page, 2025

Blue Campaign's Human Trafficking Response Guide for the Transportation Industry, 2023

Florida Transit Safety and Operations Network's (FTSON) Human Trafficking Response Procedure Template. 2023

Metro Magazine's Human Trafficking Awareness: What Public Transportation Can Do? 2025

Truckers Against Trafficking/Busing on the Lookout's Transit Training Library, Transit and Motorcoach webpage, Transit on the Lookout to Combat Human Trafficking: A Toolkit for Transit Agencies in the United States and Canada, 2020, and Human Trafficking Response Procedure Template (downloadable template on the bottom right of the web page)

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