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Expo visitors will be transported by Toyota's Intelligent Multimode Transit System, featuring non-mechanically linked vehicles moving in a platoon formation.
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Bloomington (Ind.) Transit has received APTA's 2010 Outstanding Public Transportation System Award for systems in the category of less than 4 million annual ridership. The system set an all-time ridership record in 2009 carrying 3.06 million passenger trips.
Read More →Steve Anderson is responsible for the development of “Reinventing Metro,” including planning and scheduling, as well as bus stop infrastructure.
Read More →The rise in ridership is reflective of transit agencies adapting to the swiftly changing needs of their communities while delivering safe, reliable service, according to APTA.
Read More →A new report says that many transit agencies are getting burned in deals they made with bailed-out Wall Street banks. Many are losing millions of dollars every year from budgets that are already rail-thin. Can they claim they are “too big to fail?”
Read More →By riding with the application open, users contribute real-time speed and location data about their trip. Users can also send overcrowding, cleanliness and rankings reports.
Read More →One of the benefits of letting riders pay fares using a smart card-based bank card is it allows the transit agency get out of the ticket business. However, costs are still a problem due to transaction fees charged by the banks offering them.
Read More →The Allendale County Scooter, a small transit system in rural South Carolina, plays an integral role in getting 16 Indian exchange teachers around town and to work on time.
Read More →May go from $245 per month to $130 per month, on Jan. 1. Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer has gotten support from five House Republicans and 44 fellow Democrats to co-sponsor legislation that would keep the transit subsidy equal to the parking subsidy.
Read More →Lyft now shows riders upcoming departures for COTA’s fixed-route service, CoGo Bike Share, and shared rides.
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