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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 Dispatches•by Daniel Hutton•October 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 Corner•by Dustin Harber•August 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 Dispatches•by Scott Shepard•August 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 Corner•by Gina Maria Bonini•July 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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Transit Dispatches•by David Walters•July 23, 2024

Why Paratransit Fleets are Choosing Propane-Powered Shuttles

For more than four decades, fleet owners have selected propane autogas as the energy solution for their vehicles to lower operating costs, clean up their communities with reduced emissions, and meet the performance needs of their duty cycles.

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Transit Dispatches•by Mark R. Aesch•July 16, 2024

Modernizing the Measurement of Value

The transit industry has both embraced and allowed the singular definition of value to be that of ridership. Ridership goes up somehow the industry did something great.

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Transit Dispatches•by Giles Bailey•July 10, 2024

Velo-city 2024 Examines Latest Trends in Cycling as Part of Urban Mobility

Velo-city, an annual conference of the cycling mobility industry within the context of developing sustainable communities, was held in Ghent, Belgium this past June.

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Safety Corner•by Roger Brereton •July 2, 2024

The Evolution of Bus Design

Thirty years ago, drivers not only had to drive the bus and navigate heavy traffic, but they were also responsible for tasks like supervising passenger loading and unloading, selling tickets, and providing passengers with various kinds of information, all while sitting in an often ill-fitting workstation.

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Transit Dispatches•by Claudia Folska•June 25, 2024

Time for 'One-and-Done' Universal Transit Pass for People with Disabilities

Imagine trying to plan a weekend getaway and needing permission from some bureaucrat in your destination city’s transportation department to be able to get around easily and affordably.

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Transit Dispatches•by Mark R. Aesch•June 19, 2024

Prioritize Success Outcomes First, Develop Fiscal Budget Second

As we approach July 1, many public sector organizations across the country have fiscal years that begin at the midpoint of the year. To that point, many public sector executives believe that "adopting the budget" is the single critical event of their year.

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Safety Corner•by Jeffrey Cassell •June 12, 2024

What 'Transit Safety 101' Really Means

Safety, Safety, Safety. This word is used repeatedly, and in many contexts, without most people understanding what it actually means.

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