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Safety Cornerby Lexi HigginsJanuary 8, 2025

Human Trafficking Awareness: What Public Transportation Can Do?

January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the U.S., and January 11 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.

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Transit Dispatchesby Frank White IIIDecember 17, 2024

Public Transit: An Economic Powerhouse on Wheels

In cities across the U.S., when people see a bus go by, they can sometimes just blend into everyday life. What they miss seeing is that public transit is an incredibly powerful driver of economic prosperity and community transformation.

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Transit Dispatchesby Mark R. AeschDecember 10, 2024

Our Communities Will Value Happier Customers

Since the 1950’s, the transit industry has focused solely on the "more" portion of that sentence.

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Transit Dispatchesby Konstantin Spasov December 4, 2024

World Sustainable Transport Day: Untapped Strategies for Sustainable Mobility

World Sustainable Transport Day serves as a poignant reminder that advancing sustainability demands ongoing efforts to improve transportation systems, particularly by increasing public transit adoption and enhancing both efficiency and environmental performance.

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Transit Dispatchesby Timothy MenardNovember 20, 2024

Modernizing Urban Transportation: The Funding Challenge and Innovative Solutions

Transportation infrastructure serves as the backbone of any thriving city, facilitating the movement of people and goods that drive economic growth and enhance quality of life.

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Safety Cornerby Shawn EnidesNovember 13, 2024

Want to Improve Transit Safety and Operations? Break Down the Silos

Retrieving and reviewing data and video can be a cumbersome process for fleet managers. Each system or tool provides a piece of the puzzle, but seeing the complete picture requires tedious manual synchronization.

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Transit Dispatchesby Mark R. AeschNovember 5, 2024

Performance Over Personality: Executives that are ‘Plow Horses’

High-performing public sector agencies exhibit key similarities with their private sector counterparts.

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The Math Isn’t Adding Up for Public Transit. Here’s How to Fix It.

Agencies can drive more value from technology investments by consolidating connectivity applications

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Transit Dispatchesby Daniel HuttonOctober 8, 2024

What to Do When Metros Can't Expand Highways Further

The era of simply widening roads to accommodate more traffic is no longer enough. It's time to shift from a car-oriented approach to an options-oriented one, where cars are just one of many transportation choices.

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Safety Cornerby Dustin HarberAugust 28, 2024

Ensuring Public Transit Cybersecurity Through Robust Protective Measures

In today’s highly connected world, cybersecurity is of utmost importance, particularly for transportation agencies overseeing transit bus systems that rely increasingly on sophisticated technologies, including the use of data analytics in traffic signal networks, to manage and operate their systems.

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Transit Dispatchesby Scott ShepardAugust 7, 2024

How Urban Tolling Helps Decarbonize Cities

As a result of multiple trends and life shaping events, such as the COVID pandemic, the way we live, work, and spend leisure time has been forever changed in our urbanized settlements.

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Safety Cornerby Gina Maria BoniniJuly 30, 2024

How Advances in Thermal Management Revolutionize Urban Mobility

In the daily hustle and bustle of city life, transit buses serve as the backbone of urban transportation, allowing millions of city dwellers to get from point A to point B each day reliably.

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