Deadline Extended: Apply Now for METRO's 2023 Innovative Solution Awards
Submissions are now being accepted for this year from any type of passenger bus or rail operation and their supplier partner, with the winners set to be featured in METRO's September/October issue.

Past winners of METRO's Innovative Solutions Awards include Seattle's King County Metro, who partnered with The Routing Company for a program that guaranteed riders wouldn't miss their connecting trains.
Photo: King County Metro
METRO is now accepting submissions for the 2023 Innovative Solution Awards, which will be featured online, as well as in the APTA EXPO issue of the magazine. The deadlinev is now extended to June 23.
Are you a bus or passenger rail operator that has recently partnered with a solutions provider within the last year to implement a new innovation at your operation that has helped you save money, run more efficiently, improve safety before or during the pandemic, streamline operations, improved customer satisfaction, or increased ridership? Perhaps you even did something that wasn’t listed that your peers should know about? Tell us what you did and how it has positively impacted your business.
Submit Your Innovative Project Now!
Applications can be submitted either by the operation or the solutions provider and is open to bus operations ranging from public transit to motorcoach and paratransit to shuttle services. We have also opened it up this year to passenger rail operators and their supplier partners.
The submissions will be judged by our Advisory Board, with winners recognized later this year.
Past winners include L.A. METRO/Rosco, PCACS/RideCo, King County Metro/The Routing Company, Greyhound/Icomera, CapMetro/Luminator, and more.
This is a great opportunity to highlight the successes of your bus operation or company.
The call for nominations has again been extended to June 23.
For more info, contact Alex Roman at alex.roman@bobit.com or call (310) 533-2589
Submissions Now Closed! We'll be back in 2024 to honor more operations and their supplier partners!
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