Here, we will dive into three areas that are more complex than they appear: Employee management, bidding, and pay.
Millennials and Generation Z alike are looking for homes and jobs in cities, where they can walk and take public transportation for daily life.
Through no fault of their own, consumers of public transportation are like people who go into a restaurant, order a fine meal from the menu, and enjoy what the waiter or waitress places on the table.
TNCs, microtransit operators, and electric car manufacturers are fighting over the low-hanging fruit of the upper- and middle-class passenger market.
The single biggest driver of change in transportation in the coming years will undoubtedly be the impending climate catastrophe.
To help mitigate the effects of a potential workforce shortage, SEPTA is taking its recruitment efforts to the next generation, reaching out to students about careers in transportation.
By working in tandem, these elements will result in better public transportation infrastructure, more egalitarian access to transit options, affordable or free services, and a healthier environment.
What I found in my public sector roles was that often private sector vendors did not understand how we operated nor how to interface effectively with us as the public agency.
Transit agencies don’t need to wait for fully autonomous vehicles to become a reality before they can begin saving money, augmenting safety, and enhancing efficiencies in their bus operations.
Cities spend billions of dollars maintaining, upgrading, and operating their public transit networks, but this market receives remarkably short shrift in conversations about the future of mobility.
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