The agency will use Real-Time Passenger Information Systems on a route featuring enhanced express services, using nine dedicated buses equipped with GPS units, and 17 LED signs installed at selected high-volume bus stops.
Participants from both organizations heard from an array of members of Congress on transportation-specific topics, such as the highway reauthorization bill.
One of the larger operations within the NCDOT system and will be the first non-rural agency to participate. They will be using FleetFocus to track over 140 transit vehicles.
U.S. government officials reported finding evidence of the terror group’s plot to attack a train somewhere in the United States.
Added five language translation options — Spanish, French, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese — of critical pages, such as the Trip Planner, Getting Around and Fares.
Reopening the Hours-of-Service (HOS) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking comment period to allow for public review and discussion of four new studies.
The system uses video, audio and ECU-connected vehicle data sensors to detect and record risky driving maneuvers. It also enables drivers to instantly recognize fuel-wasting maneuvers with in-cab visual driver feedback.
A congressional hearing was held Wednesday to discuss the challenge of protecting mass transit systems with a dwindling budget as new threats arise in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death.