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Prior to joining FTA, Williams was the director of the Washington Area Transit Office in the Maryland Department of Transportation.
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The contracts provide a new approach for determining when a paratransit vehicle is “late," as the contractor managing the scheduling and dispatching functions will share performance incentives and disincentives with the contractors delivering the service to customers.
Read More →Wiedenfeld announced the hiring of the current associate administrator at the FMCSA and a former Bechtel executive.
Read More →The agency is seeking to buy 10, 40-foot-standard-length buses from multiple manufacturers to test different bus and charging technologies and assess their performance.
Read More →The body-worn cameras will supplement the more than 20,000 cameras Metro has throughout the rail, bus, and paratransit system to further strengthen public safety and security efforts.
Read More →Report says that service-industry workers heading home after 10 p.m. are often left behind by overcrowded buses and waiting longer than 30 minutes for buses that are scheduled to run about every seven minutes. The agency is working to double the number of extra-long buses on the route.
Read More →In response to criticism from city officials, the agency will not cut service after 8 p.m. to some neighborhoods in the Southeastern region of Washington, D.C., despite routine attacks that injure riders and drivers and damage the buses.
Read More →The authority’s efforts to address the problem have been constrained, the FTA report said, by chronic farebox malfunctions — which can lead to driver-passenger disputes and violence.
Read More →BrowseAloud reads aloud text as the user moves the cursor over words. Software is intended to help anyone who has difficulty reading online, including people with mild visual impairments, low literacy and reading skills, and learning disabilities such as dyslexia.
Read More →The program is designed to create an additional layer of transparency for officers who protect Metro customers and employees.
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