By paying attention to how it feels to arrive at, pass through, and use a transit facility, focused design strategies can complement traditional approaches by enhancing user perception of safety. While a station may be safe, according to statistics and incident reporting, ridership and patron satisfaction will still suffer if the station doesn’t feel safe.
Robert Prince is currently retired from AECOM where he served as VP, transit business development director. He continues work with Gannon Consult. In his past role as Chairman of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials, Prince continues to give back to the industry.
The agency covers four major cities, spanning 2,300 square miles and provides local, express, commuter, and bus rapid transit services.
KAT has increased service levels on 14 of 23 regular fixed routes, along with restructuring three downtown trolley routes following extensive public input. During this same period, KAT has continued to emphasize the importance of safety throughout the organization, adding pedestrian awareness stickers to driver work stations, and limiting speeds in high-pedestrian areas, resulting in a 20% reduction in preventable accidents over three years.
Through its subsidiaries, the company provides highly engineered products — from braking equipment to electronics to HVAC systems to doors — that can be found on virtually every passenger railcar, freight car, bus, and locomotive in North America and in more than 100 countries.
With over 25 years in business, Tolar arguably has the largest portfolio of transit shelters and related street furniture in North America.
In November 2016, voters approved about 70% of public transit initiatives on ballots across America, but we all acknowledge that the connections between systems remain a critical challenge — particularly, the “first-and-last-mile” challenge.
Recorded video can be organized with tags that are associated with hardwired triggers — like when a ramp is deployed — or cloud-based triggers from third-party software, like collision avoidance systems.
Incoming APTA CEO Nat Ford outlined five priorities and new committees to address the drastic changes happening in public transit.
METRO asked some of the top execs in the industry what they are doing to provide comprehensive training to both driver and maintenance staff.
Q&A with Linda Watson, President/CEO, Capital Metro, Austin, Texas
In 2016, voters passed a $2.5 billion ballot measure to increase both MARTA bus and rail service.
Being the inventors of safety floors, the company’s floors have been satisfying the diverse needs of the transportation industry for decades in both bus and rail applications.
Company's Series 04 have been developed to withstand the challenging demands of operator controls within driver cabs and can be seamlessly implemented in ergonomically-friendly designs to fulfil UIC 612 guidelines.
The company will also showcase its low-power displays for stationary applications and assorted rail lighting and display technology.
Station agents are now assisting riders outside of station booths by helping customers wherever they are located, answering questions and providing directional support, and more.
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