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NewsNovember 11, 2021

APTA Announces Bus and Rail Safety & Security Excellence Award Winners

The APTA Bus and Rail Safety & Security Excellence Awards recognize public transit providers for their innovative and proactive safety and security programs. 

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ArticlesNovember 9, 2021

Chicago Transit Authority Honored for Leadership, Innovation

METRO caught up with the winner of its 2020 Innovative Solutions Award to discover a bit more about what truly sets them apart.

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Articlesby Alex RomanNovember 8, 2021

Capital Metro, Clever Devices Win Innovative Solutions Award for Trip Planning

Austin, Texas’ Capital Metro is implementing an onboard digital display system integrated with a real-time data feed versus the traditional integration with on-vehicle schedule information, across a subset of its fleet.

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Articlesby Alex RomanNovember 8, 2021

King County Metro, MV Transportation Win Innovative Solutions Award for Accessibility

King County Metro (KCM) and MV Transportation developed and implemented a new multi-tenant GIS recording and reconciliation system to collect, process, and distribute pathway data: CommonPaths.

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Articlesby Alex RomanNovember 8, 2021

NCRTD, LiquidSpring Win Innovative Solutions Award for Vehicle Technology

N.M.’s North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) partnered with LiquidSpring to test its Compressible Liquid Adaptive Suspension System (CLASS).

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Articlesby Alex RomanNovember 8, 2021

Greyhound, Icomera Win Innovative Solutions Award for Passenger Experience

The entire North American Greyhound Lines Inc. (Greyhound) fleet was upgraded with the Icomera X-Series wireless internet connectivity gateway to significantly improve the passenger experience.

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Articlesby Alex RomanNovember 8, 2021

RTS Partners with Masabi, Transit to Win Innovative Solutions Award for Fare Collection

Rochester, N.Y.’s Regional Transit Service (RTS) recently launched the world’s first Account-Based Ticketing solution powered by Masabi’s MaaS-enabled Fare Payments-as-a-Service platform, in the Transit app.

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Articlesby Alex RomanNovember 8, 2021

GreenPower Partners with Perrone Robotics, JTA to Win Innovative Solutions Award for Autonomous Vehicles

Zero-emissions electric vehicle supplier GreenPower Motor Company partnered with Perrone Robotics to create/develop the first fully autonomous electric passenger transportation vehicle, the AV Star.

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Articlesby Alex RomanNovember 8, 2021

GIRO, LA Metro Win Innovative Solutions Award for Operations

GIRO and L.A. Metro collaborated to develop the Customer Impact Simulator (CIS) — a software tool for transit planners that calculates an expanded range of customer-benefit metrics.

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NewsNovember 4, 2021

METRO's 2021 Innovative Solutions Award Winners Unveiled

Now in its seventh year, the Innovative Solutions Awards honors bus operations and their supplier partners who have implemented initiatives that helped them save money, run more efficiently, streamline operations, increase safety, improve customer satisfaction, increase ridership, and more.

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