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Busby StaffApril 6, 2015

U. of Waterloo team creates winning transit routing app

Working as a team, the three students developed PredictION, a transit modeling and routing application that helps citizens to visualize, analyze, and compare routes and service areas between existing and proposed transit systems.

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Busby StaffApril 6, 2015

Valdosta St. offering advertising opportunities

The ads will be featured inside specially designed internal displays on Blazer Shuttle Express buses. Blazer Shuttle Express is the transportation system used by students, faculty and staff at Valdosta State University to navigate around the campus.

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Busby StaffApril 3, 2015

CHK America wins bus stop improvement contract for GRTC

The three-tiered project will include redesigning the information for more than 2,000 stops throughout the Greater RIchmond Transit Company's service area.

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Railby StaffApril 3, 2015

80-mile commute shows challenges faced by many working in Silicon Valley

Ronnie Thomas commutes 80 miles from Stockton by bike, bus and train to his job at Stanford University as a dining employee.

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Managementby StaffApril 3, 2015

Why did AC Transit's top exec leave?

Armijo, credited by directors and others with bringing the district out of financial difficulties, creating a budget reserve and improving service, said he went three years with only one pay increase, "and it was delayed for 10 months," according to the report.

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Managementby StaffApril 3, 2015

$500M in TIGER funding available for transportation projects

The program's discretionary grants will fund capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure and will be awarded on a competitive basis to projects that will have a significant impact on the nation, a region or metropolitan area.

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Managementby StaffApril 3, 2015

Milwaukee's unique bus passes on way out

The Milwaukee County Transit System doesn't have a date set yet for the final phaseout of print passes, but the agency has already cut weekly production from 40,000 passes to 10,000 passes.

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Managementby StaffApril 2, 2015

New Pierce Transit CEO began career as bus driver

Susan Dreier comes to Pierce County after serving as COO at Salem-Keizer Transit, a public transportation system based in Salem, Ore.

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Railby StaffApril 2, 2015

Metrolink PSAs to hit L.A. movie theaters

In January, George Gregory “Greg” Plitt Jr., a reality television star, was killed by a train in Burbank during a film shoot on the tracks. Since his death, the rail system says Hollywood has become more aware of the dangers around train tracks, but the focus is now on moviegoers who officials hope will not try to mimic movie scenes.

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Motorcoachby StaffApril 2, 2015

Charter bus driver charged in pedestrian's death

State Police say a man was killed when a charter bus struck him as he tried to cross Route 13 in Accomack County at around 3 a.m. The bus driver reportedly stopped and searched around the immediate area of the bus before leaving the scene.

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