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Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority's (DART) Central Station, located in downtown Des...
The station, which opened in November 2012, features many amenities including climate-controlled... DART General Manager Elizabeth Presutti (center) and Building Supervisor Keith Welch greet...
Photo: DART Entrance to bike storage area. Photo: DART

The Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority's LEED Platinum-certified Central Station in downtown Des Moines is the primary transfer location betweeen routes and includes the Customer Service Department and Administrative Offices. The station, which opened in November 2012 features many amenities including climate-controlled waiting areas, covered loading platforms, a bicycle storage room and Java Joe’s CoffeeHouse.

The Commuter Rail Facility (CRMF) sits on 30 acres and is 230,000 square feet. Approximately 240...
RTD’s commuter rail vehicles are heavier than light rail vehicles, but operate in a similar way....
In total, 66 commuter rail cars have been purchased and will be cleaned, stored and maintained...
Select Bus Service launched on 86 St. on Mon., July 13, 2015. The M86 SBS will help make the...
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit
Design elements along this route include off-board fare collection, real-time passenger...

New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT), together with MTA NYC Transit, unveiled a new Select Bus Service route along 86th Street in Manhattan on July 13, 2015. This corridor currently serves 24,000 commuters daily and is the busiest route citywide per mile. This marks the 8th SBS in the city and provides direct connections to twelve different bus routes.

Features of the simulated environment include various lane configurations and sidewalks,...
University of Michigan
Instrumentiation throughout, including a control network to collect data about traffic activity...

Mcity is the world's first full-scale simulated urban environment designed expressly for testing the performance and safety of connected, automated, and autonomous vehicles under controlled and realistic road conditions. It is a 32-acre outdoor laboratory for advanced mobility systems that includes network of roads with intersections, traffic signs and signals, streetlights, building facades, sidewalks and construction obstacles.

Moscow Metro. Photo: Caroline Jiang/Flickr
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Moscow Metro. Photo: Alberto Carrasco Casado/Flickr

The Moscow Metro opened in 1935 with one 6.8-mile line and 13 stations. The subway, the first underground railway in the Soviet Union, celebrated its 80th anniversary in May 2015. The system consists of twelve lines and 196 stations, with an average daily ridership of 6.7 million riders (2013).

What Hyperloop's capsule and outer shell will look like.
Image: Hyperloop
A Hyperloop concept image, showing the support beams.
Image: Hyperloop
A Hyperloop concept image.
Image: Hyperloop

The Hyperloop concept, developed by entrepreneur Elon Musk, is a mass-transportation system that can transport passengers between San Fransisco and Los Angeles in less than 40 minutes. Passengers would ride in aluminum pods in sealed tubes, traveling at speeds of up to 800 mph.

Don’t Put Bags on Seats -- Your bag did not pay its own fare and is not entitled to its own...
Don’t Litter -- Please don’t leave your newspaper, wrappers or other litter on the train, bus or...
Stand Right, Walk Left -- When riding an escalator, use the right side of the escalator if you...
Over 12,500 tons of specially designed structural steel has been used to construct the WTC...
Design of the Hub includes fully integrated, climate-controlled concourses, mezzanines and...
The main transit hall is 365 feet long, 90 feet longer than the main concourse of Grand Central...

The state-of-the-art World Trade Center Transportation Hub, when completed in 2015, will serve over 200,000 daily commuters and millions of annual visitors from around the world. At approximately 800,000 square feet, the Hub, which features a wing-like "Oculus” design, will connect visitors to 11 different subway lines, the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) rail system and Battery Park City Ferry Terminal.

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