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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.
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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 →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%.
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Transit police forces are employing technology, high-visibility patrols and communication tools to harden their systems.
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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For the increasing number of customers with smartphones and tablets, safety is enhanced. New features, such as mobile ticketing, crowd-sourced information and even shopping, further improve the ride.
Read More →A new Rental Car Center will start operating this fall with a unified bus system that will replace more than 90 rental car company buses and Massport shuttle buses with 28 new 60-foot articulated buses.
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