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The mTicket app will be competing for top honors in the 2013 America’s Transportation Awards, sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation officials, AAA, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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The video, which features MBTA staff and riders singing and dancing along to a hip-hop inspired song, "The Safety Bounce," was financed by Titan, the advertising firm that contracts with the transit agency.
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Features MBTA riders and staff singing along to hip hop inspired song, "The Safety Bounce," to promote safety on the transit system. Officials hope the song will help school children remember key safety lessons when riding public transportation.
Read More →Allows riders to purchase and then display rail tickets on the smartphone’s screen as an encrypted barcode and as a human readable ticket.
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The Sesame Ring, designed by two MIT students, is currently part of a Kickstarter campaign.
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Transit police officials say the fake cop, along with video cameras and a new lock, has cut bike thefts by 67%.
Read More →Assessment includes a review of topics such as an agency's security plans, security training, drills/exercise programs, public outreach efforts and background check programs. Systems honored include N.Y. MTA, Boston’s MBTA and San Francisco’s BART.
Read More →Travel training will be the first in a series of mobility management services organized under a consortium dubbed Ways2Go and funded with federal grant funds.
Read More →The agency plans on cutting fares and adding service to help attain its goal of increasing ridership by 20%.
Read More →After first releasing its schedule data in the industry-standard GTFS format to developers in 2009, the MBTA jumped to the forefront of sharing real-time transit data by making live location and prediction data for all 1,000 buses available to developers in 2010.
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