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KAT has increased service levels on 14 of 23 regular fixed routes, along with restructuring three downtown trolley routes following extensive public input. During this same period, KAT has continued to emphasize the importance of safety throughout the organization, adding pedestrian awareness stickers to driver work stations, and limiting speeds in high-pedestrian areas, resulting in a 20% reduction in preventable accidents over three years.
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Some three quarters of all jobs in the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas are in neighborhoods with transit service, but only about a quarter of the workforce is able to get to their jobs in less than 90 minutes via mass transit.
Read More →Architect is an intuitive map-based web application that eliminates the need for manual management, provides riders with accurate information.
Read More →The Ventra app, developed and launched by Cubic, CTA, and its transit partners in November 2015, is a free, first-of-its kind, truly regional transit application in the U.S. that allows customers to plan, manage, and pay for their journeys across three transit systems from their mobile devices
Read More →The Masabi report uncovered that only 500 of the 2,500 people surveyed have access to public transit and could provide responses.
Read More →The study estimates that at least $1 billion can be attributed to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s Metrorail system.
Read More →State's air-quality regulators consider expanding restrictions to all transit agencies.
Read More →While our society is by and large still assessing the viability of this technology, how to apply it safely and where it might have the most impact, there is little doubt AVs will play a significant role in the future.
Read More →As part of the ongoing process to fix and fortify the system against future catastrophic weather events like Sandy, the agency plans to replace the current emergency booth communication system that provides emergency and security communications between train supervisors and personnel across the subway system.
Read More →Nominations for Lisa Rivera-LaMantia, senior project manager at COTA, and Walter Weichselbaumer, strategic account manager at Clever Devices, were approved on Sept. 26.
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