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Finding the Right Balance: Optimizing Transit Maintenance

Finding the ‘Happy Medium’: Optimizing Maintenance Without Sacrificing Reliability

The key to maintenance optimization isn’t doing less work—it’s doing the right work at the right time on the right assets.

Editor's Picks

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Technology
LA Metro, City of West Hollywood, and Partners Advance Smarter Bus Lane Enforcement
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Management
PSTA Modernizes Workforce Management with Digital Bidding System
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New Mobility
New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies: Joshua Schank on Making Transit Innovation Stick
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Technology
How DART's GoPass Is Redefining Regional Mobility

LA Metro, City of West Hollywood, and Partners Advance Smarter Bus Lane Enforcement

LA Metro, City of West Hollywood, and Partners Advance Smarter Bus Lane Enforcement

PSTA Modernizes Workforce Management with Digital Bidding System

PSTA Modernizes Workforce Management with Digital Bidding System

New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies: Joshua Schank on Making Transit Innovation Stick

New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies: Joshua Schank on Making Transit Innovation Stick

How DART's GoPass Is Redefining Regional Mobility

How DART's GoPass Is Redefining Regional Mobility

WatchAll Videos

Don't Let Legacy Software Be Your Legacy with AlphaRoute's John Hanlon

Driving Smarter Paratransit

What Transit Agencies Get Wrong About Data METROspectives episode with strada360's Steve Lassey

Sponsored

How Data, Strategy, and Community Engagement Are Reshaping Transit

Reinventing Transit's Digital Future with Luminator's Magnus Friberg

Building the Next Generation of Transit Technology

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Cover of a Strada 360 guide titled "Turn Transit Data Into Action: How to solve common transit agency pain points with connected technology." The cover features a blurred transit bus, a gray grid background with orange accents, and text describing how connected technology helps transit agencies improve visibility, operational efficiency, maintenance, scheduling, and data-driven decision-making. An orange callout highlights the challenges facing today's transit landscape.

Turn Transit Data Into Action

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6 Must-Have Fleet Management Capabilities for Transit Agencies

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2026 METRO Buyer’s Guide & Directory

What You Need to Know About Passenger Wi-FI

7 Key Considerations for Your Fleet Procurement Process

Webinars

The Future of Paratransit: How to Thrive in an Uncertain Era

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The Future of Paratransit: How to Thrive in an Uncertain Era

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Rail

An Amtrak Cascades Airo Trainset at a station.

FRA Announces $5.3B in Rail Investments, Including $2B for Amtrak

Funding will support grade-crossing improvements, infrastructure upgrades, and new Amtrak equipment in 23 states.

DART Customer Satisfaction Reaches Six-Year High

Finding the Right Balance: Optimizing Transit Maintenance

Finding the ‘Happy Medium’: Optimizing Maintenance Without Sacrificing Reliability

An pink and white OKC streetcar moves down a street.

OKC Streetcar Makes Zero-Fare Service Permanent

Motorcoach

Luminator software product example

Biz Briefs: Luminator Marks Milestone and More

From manufacturers and suppliers to transit agencies and motorcoach operators, these updates offer a snapshot of the projects, partnerships and business moves driving the industry forward.

An OCTA ZEB.

Biz Briefs: OCTA Taps Clean Energy for Hydrogen Station, Stadler to Supply Via Rail Vehicles, and More

ABAF Examines Motorcoach Insurance Crisis

ABAF Study Reveals Growing Insurance Crisis for Motorcoach Operators

Virginia Breeze's new Van Hool motorcoaches with branding, which were delivered by ABC Companies.

Motorcoach Market Remains Flat Amid Shift in Buying Patterns