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Articles•by Staff and News Reports•June 12, 2017

Florida’s Brightline to Boost Intercity Train Travel

The first phase of the express passenger rail service, costing more than $1 billion, will connect the region’s main Central Business Districts of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach, while Phase 2 will connect Orlando.

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Articles•by James Blue•June 12, 2017

Publisher's Perspective: Is your state ready for safety oversight?

In the wake of several serious rail accidents, Congress enacted tougher safety oversight requirements of states, with threats of withholding federal funds for both rail and bus transit agencies throughout each entire state that did not comply.

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News•by Staff•June 8, 2017

BART police sharing crime data with website to boost public access

The site will process the crime data with its advanced mapping engine to show where the crime has occurred within the system.  

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News•by Staff•June 8, 2017

Transdev, Delphi to develop autonomous on-demand transport system

Will utilize Transdev Universal Routing Engine and Delphi's automated driving platform — the Centralized Sensing, Localization and Planning platform which is being developing in partnership with Mobileye.

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News•June 8, 2017

Profile: Donna Smith, Sr. Director, Easter Seals Project Action Consulting

Donna Smith was 18 months old when doctors detected retinoblastoma, a rare form of cancer, and removed her right eye. For the next 18 months, her mother took her on zoo trips and drilled her on all the colors before doctors took out her left eye, too.

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News•by Staff•June 7, 2017

HNTB hires 2 rail experts to prepare for PTC deadline

Michael Bogonovich and Michael Haverstick join the company to address infrastructure needs for the approaching legislative deadline.

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News•by Staff•June 7, 2017

Toronto's Metrolinx mulls random drug testing

Implementation would likely be complicated by the makeup of Metrolinx’s workforce, since the agency directly employs about 870 GO bus drivers, but more than 850 people who operate UPX and GO train service work for Bombardier.

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News•by Staff•June 6, 2017

Toronto's Metrolinx has shared smart card user data with police

The agency said it has received 26 requests so far in 2017 from police forces for “tap history” from Presto cards and has granted 12 of the requests.

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News•by Staff•June 6, 2017

ITS America forms transportation-focused cybersecurity task force

The new group aims to address key issues in transportation such as technological challenges; legal and liability issues; and policy, regulation, and legislation.

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News•by Staff•June 5, 2017

Seon launches new line of HD surveillance systems

The new systems include the TH4, TH4C, and TH6 digital video recorders and the HD1 and HD3 interior dome and outdoor wedge cameras.

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