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Busby StaffMarch 23, 2009

The Trivia Man challenges his passengers

Retired executive drives students between the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University, two Catholic liberal arts colleges located about 5 miles apart near St. Cloud, Minn.

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Busby StaffMarch 23, 2009

UMass in Amherst unveils new transit center

New 16,000-square-foot facility features a vehicle garage, driver training facility and operations center for the Regional Traveler Information Center.

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Busby StaffMarch 20, 2009

METRO Briefs

Georgia pays Bluffton bus victims $3M. King County Metro: fed cash to fuel growth. North Texas leaders support transit bill.

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Railby StaffMarch 20, 2009

Sound Transit: light rail integrity not impacted

Analyses conducted by the FTA, an engineering firm and Sound Transit all concluded that, despite forged information related to the grade of steel used in some guideway foundations, the system is structurally sound.

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Railby StaffMarch 20, 2009

Gannett Fleming opens Newark office

The Newark office will serve as the project office for the firm's work on New Jersey Transit’s Portal Bridge Capacity Enhancement Project, which involves the replacement of a major section of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor between Newark and New York City.

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Railby StaffMarch 20, 2009

Canadian Government, VIA complete rail upgrades

Upgrades so far on VIA’s network include a $12.5 million investment in the Alexandria Subdivision, between Ottawa and Montreal as well as similar improvements currently underway on the Smiths Falls Subdivision between Toronto and Ottawa.

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Railby StaffMarch 20, 2009

Washington Metro to provide downloadable data

The raw data is available in a coded format that can be used by anyone who wants to turn the information into a usable computer application, including businesses and Web masters.

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Busby StaffMarch 19, 2009

RouteMatch tapped to equip DOT ITS program

MSAA program supports the use of ITS technologies to achieve coordinated, efficient transportation, also known as a coordinated human service and public transportation systems.

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Railby StaffMarch 19, 2009

GE Transportation to equip Trenitalia with protection systems

The new system will allow Trenitalia, which serves more than one million passengers per day, to increase the safety of train operations, while enabling higher traffic density through greater speed.

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Managementby StaffMarch 19, 2009

DOT: U.S. driving decline continues

The dip now exceeds 122 billion VMT, compared to the same 14-month period — December 2006 to January 2008 — a year earlier.

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