Passenger Bus, Rail and Motorcoach Industry News

Late-night and off-campus services appear to be the most popular among the systems surveyed. An increase in bus routes ran a close second. One university just unveiled a trolley service and another is planning a parking app.

Include increasing the number of routes, speeding up the route times and having more stops in residential destinations The university also added five new night routes, with four running during the week.

Paid for by the Colorado State University student government and Fort Collins police, the bus lines run only on Friday and Saturday nights after 11:30 p.m.

Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit operates 34 routes using a fleet of 55 buses, including eight electric diesel hybrid buses. The system originates from three systems operated by the City of Ithaca, Tompkins County and Cornell University, with each stemming as far back as far as a half of a century.

Sixty-nine percent majority votes to continue high-frequency and late night Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District service, as well as to augment SafeRides service

The New York City Subway is the only large subway or metro system in the world to maintain service to all its stations around the clock.

Prior to the launch of the service last September, the college and Saratoga Taxi maintained an arrangement to provide free rides for students returning to campus after 11 p.m. Free cabs are available to students between the hours of 4:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.

Overall ridership on its fixed-route services was up 3.1 percent in April, 8.7 percent in May and 8.3 percent in June from the corresponding months a year earlier. Night Ride service also experienced a 25 percent increase, or 1,022 boardings, from the previous year.

The Cats Cruiser service is available Thursday through Saturday from 9 p.m. until 3 a.m. and consists of four fixed routes, with buses that circulate every 20 to 30 minutes, allowing students and passengers to safely return to campus or surrounding neighborhoods.