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In the spring, the national Department for Transport announced an “Emergency Active Travel Fund” to support local councils in reallocating road space for significant increases in the numbers of cyclists and pedestrians through the pending spring and summer periods.
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COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on entire industries, and the transportation industry has been no exception. For the first time in its 115-year history, New York City’s subways stopped running in a planned shutdown that’s still affecting the city’s residents today.
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The discussion featured transit professionals, academic researchers, and transportation consultants, sharing not only their perspectives on post pandemic local affects on agencies, but the overall shifts underway that each stakeholder needs to understand.
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Our public space needs to work for us 365 days a year — now more than ever.
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Although COVID-19 has certainly presented the transit industry with significant challenges, the timing of introducing new initiatives might actually be advantageous, tempering unrealistic expectations for success.
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It’s critical that the owner’s representative on mega projects be a good listener and ready to build consensus.
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The spread of the coronavirus has had a devastating impact on mass transit systems all over the world, particularly in large cities like New York City, Paris, and Tokyo.
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Transit agencies around the world are in the middle of an uncertain time, when we are all being challenged with finding answers even if we do not know the questions yet.
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Cal-ITP was created by the California State Transportation Agency and its partners to facilitate easy and accessible travel planning and payments across the state and recommends that transit agencies implement GTFS in the real-time mode to provide more frequent updates to train and bus schedules.
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People do not just want social distancing on trains and hand sanitizers. They want control — and they want it every step of the way.
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An aspect of every urban transport system is making interchange between modes work well. Interchanges are widely discussed across Europe, but the outcomes vary widely across the continent.
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Many of the old ways of doing business in the transit world are now in flux. Funding is not as stable as it was, ridership dropped, and full bus occupancy, once a measure of success, is now a thing to be avoided.
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