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While ridership continues to grow across the industry, many transit agencies are focused on ways to grow millennial usage, including the addition of USB charging stations, Wi-Fi, and real-time bus arrival technologies, as well as targeted advertising and marketing campaigns.
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In the three months since the release of official apps for railroad customers, LIRR Train Time and Metro-North Train Time, approximately 120,000 people have downloaded the apps for iPhone and Android.
Read More →The GILLIG bus will allow staff to gain operational and maintenance experience and will also allow the agency to conduct bus familiarization training with fire departments.
Read More →FMCSA levies $31,110 penalty following investigation of September bus accident.
Read More →The number of visitors to the CTA Bus Tracker Website has steadily increased; since Nov. 1, the site has logged an average of approximately 20,000 visits per weekday.
Read More →As part of the SmartEfficiency initiative, Cummins revealed the 2017 L9 diesel and 2017 B6.7 hybrid engine systems, the ISL G Near Zero (NZ) NOx natural gas engine, the isolated engine coolant loop system for the 2017 L9 and ISL G, and a new SmartSupport service program.
Read More →A new method of bus coordination abandons the concept of tightly-managed headways or schedules, drivers instead follow the flow of traffic, and natural headways emerge over time.
Read More →St. Ambrose University is banning Bar Hoppers, a party bus company that was picking up students on campus who were out drinking, due to concern over the welfare of students.
Read More →As ridership is decreasing nationwide, many agencies are concentrating on developing a multimodal approach to better tie in first, last-mile options with bus services serving as the backbone.
Read More →Agency has paid more than $1.9M in overtime to bus drivers — a 62 percent rise over the same period in 2009.
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