
Incoming APTA CEO Nat Ford outlined five priorities and new committees to address the drastic changes happening in public transit.
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From testing autonomous vehicles to piloting on-demand transportation, transit agencies are looking for new ways to complement their bus services. In conjunction, many are also adding technologies such as mobile apps that can help plan a complete trip using a host of transportation options.
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Moovit, which was named Google’s top local app in 2016, mixes available public data, including transit timetables and live information, with crowdsourced data from its more than 70 million users and 180,000 local volunteers.
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Sound Transit required engineering solutions to meet the challenges of running trains across the I-90 floating bridge linking downtown Bellevue and downtown Seattle in 2023. The tracks crossing Lake Washington need to accommodate six different ranges of motion.
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The new group aims to address key issues in transportation such as technological challenges; legal and liability issues; and policy, regulation, and legislation.
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The new image-enhancing technology provides pinpoint accuracy of the agency’s 106 miles of track.
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When Nuria Fernandez was growing up in Panama, water was a big part of her world. In addition to living by the water, she spent a couple summers interning at one of the canal locks of the Panama Canal, a feat of engineering that her great-grandfather had helped to construct...
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Most recently, Kumar worked in Paris serving as the sr. VP at Transdev working on innovations such as driverless vehicles and other disruptive transportation technology.
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The lightweight displays will be readable under all lighting conditions and easy to deploy within existing infrastructure.
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VVTA staff coordinated with the county and cities to maintain route and stop accuracy throughout the release cycle. Meeting the needs of the many departments at each agency added to the complexity of the project.
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