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NewsNovember 11, 2020

ViaVan, VBZ Launch On-Demand Ride Service in Zurich

The new service, called Pikmi, will provide shared rides in Altstetten and Albisrieden, and the Triemli and Hardplatz transport hubs.

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NewsNovember 11, 2020

TransLink to Test Copper Coating on Transit

The project is part of a study that will see various copper-based products and a protective coating called organosilane installed on SkyTrain and buses to test how effective these agents are at destroying viruses and bacteria on transit.

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Transit Dispatchesby Jason GrossNovember 10, 2020

Why Taxis Still Matter in Today’s Transportation Landscape

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on entire industries, and the transportation industry has been no exception. For the first time in its 115-year history, New York City’s subways stopped running in a planned shutdown that’s still affecting the city’s residents today.

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NewsNovember 6, 2020

MBTA Ramps Up Face Mask Enforcement

The agency's enforcement efforts are in response to Massachusetts’s revised executive order requiring all residents to wear a face covering in public, whether indoors or outdoors.

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NewsNovember 5, 2020

AC Transit Introduces Real-Time Info to Help Bus Capacity

Powered by automated passenger counter sensors, the ACT RealTime Rider Capacity feature offers onboard crowding information, exclusively on the agency's Tempo Line 1T.

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NewsOctober 28, 2020

KCATA, Alphapointe Rolling Out New Transit App for Visually Impaired

The RideKC Navigator mobile app is a custom platform to help individuals with vision impairment or blindness navigate select transit stops.

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Transit Dispatchesby Brian AntolinOctober 28, 2020

Redrawing the Lines of Transit Bus Services

The discussion featured transit professionals, academic researchers, and transportation consultants, sharing not only their perspectives on post pandemic local affects on agencies, but the overall shifts underway that each stakeholder needs to understand.

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NewsOctober 26, 2020

N.Y. MTA Announces Almost 15M Masks Distributed to Employees, Customers

Since the onset of the pandemic, the personal protective equipment distributed to heroic MTA frontline employees includes 4.9 million N95 and KN95 masks, 4.8 million surgical masks, and 600,000 cloth masks.

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Transit Dispatchesby Simon O'ByrneOctober 21, 2020

Winter City Design: 3 Ways to Save Small Businesses this COVID-19 Winter

Our public space needs to work for us 365 days a year — now more than ever.

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NewsOctober 21, 2020

Trinity Metro Creates Safety Campaign to Boost Ridership

Since its inception, the "We Got You!" campaign has delivered over 20 million impressions and increased ridership 10.6% between May and August.

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