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Articlesby Staff and News ReportsMarch 6, 2024

Cybersecurity at the Forefront of This Year's Public Transit Conference

The need for an increased cybersecurity has never been greater, but there are still many transit agencies who may not know where to start. This session will focus on best practices for ensuring that your agency is both protected and can respond to potential cyber attacks.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseMarch 4, 2024

Feds Makes $180M Available to Promote Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety

The grants are open to state, territorial, and tribal organizations; local jurisdictions; academic institutions; and other training programs and entities to promote CMV safety-related activities.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseFebruary 29, 2024

San Antonio's VIA Ridership Up in 2023

VIA attributed the increase in ridership primarily to its frequency on key routes. The agency's ridership data confirm that there is a correlation between bus frequency and ridership.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsJanuary 31, 2024

WMATA Upgrades Ridership Data Portal

The portal now includes a combined look at rail and bus ridership, adds no-tap rail ridership to the rail dashboard to track the effectiveness of anti-fare evasion efforts, and provides a more complete picture of total ridership.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsJanuary 18, 2024

WMATA Now Offering Customers Personalized Ridership Report

The new website, called “Your 2023 Metro” report, gives riders detailed information about their use of public transit last year including bus and rail ridership, number of stations visited, and more.

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ArticlesNovember 27, 2023

The Need for Transit Data Cleansing and Standardization

While ensuring passengers have access to real-time data is the new norm in transit, there are important safeguards that must be put into place to be sure that information is both accurate and being used effectively by the transit agencies themselves.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseNovember 8, 2023

Data Shows Fewer BART Trains Impacted by Unwanted Behavior

From May through October, the number of trains negatively impacted by BART PD incidents has fallen by more than 60%.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseOctober 9, 2023

Genetec Clearance Helps Transit Authorities Speed Up Investigations

Genetec Clearance eliminates the process of dispatching transit personnel to vehicles and stations, transferring video to external drives, and delivering it to requesting parties.

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ArticlesSeptember 15, 2023

Predictive Maintenance in Railways: Exploring Best Practices with IoT

Let’s find out why predictive maintenance is considered the most promising service approach for rail and how to get the most out of its implementation.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseSeptember 15, 2023

L.A. Metro Opens Access to Data Tool

Four consecutive years of passenger travel data (2019-2022) are available through the program, allowing users to extract travel trends with spatial, modal, equity, and other trip attributes. 

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