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The powerful, proprietary, no-rinse, no-wipe, one-step, all-purpose “cleaner, deodorizer, disinfectant and anti-allergen” is fogged onto a vehicle’s passenger cabin surfaces and throughout its HVAC system to sanitize, deodorize, and disinfect.
The app improves accessibility information by including a “step-free” mode to access easy-to-navigate views of all stations with street-to-platform accessibility.
Also, pre-owned coach sales were down 150 vehicles and new new coach sales were down 294 units, combining for a total 444 less units sold in the second quarter compared to the first quarter of 2020.
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.
The SEPTA Disaster Relief Memorial Fund was launched in large part due to feedback from employees who wanted a way to help the spouses, children, and other loved ones of co-workers who have died or were severely ill.
Staff have worked with municipalities to ensure the identified opportunities have considered local businesses and, are in many cases, win-wins for both transit and local retail areas.
APTA is urging Congress to invest at least $32 billion in additional emergency funding to keep systems running safely and to protect the jobs of more than 435,000 industry workers.
TRIPS integrates data and technologies for each point of the passenger’s journey — from helping individuals decide when and how to travel, to informing transit operators when stations or vehicles are nearing capacity.
The new module works with existing passenger identification scanning systems to identify and alert transit operators which passengers may have been exposed to an infected fellow rider.
Nicole Recker and Tom Ryden discuss the long and short-term implications for transit caused by the pandemic, how branding and messaging will play a part in ridership returning, and much more.