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This year, 20 percent fewer freshmen bought parking permits than last year. As a result, campus sustainability officials have held back on a planned ban on freshmen bringing cars to campus.
Read More →The University has partnered with Zipcar to offer students, staff and faculty use of six rental cars; three are hybrids.
Read More →Since 2004, First Transit has provided fixed route and university shuttle service for Austin residents and University of Texas students. First Transit operates 107 area transit buses, transporting more than eight million passengers annually.
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For the third year in a row, the intercity bus service was the fastest growing mode of intercity transportation, outpacing air and rail transportation, the study reports. Intercity bus operations expanded by 6 percent in 2010.
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Eight shuttles provide transportation services to 40,000 students, faculty and staff throughout the 324-acre campus as well as transportation to and from the Residential Learning College, which is located one and a half miles west of the main campus.
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In addition to tracking the shuttles around campus, the new system can receive up-to-the-minute announcements about situations that impact service, such as road closures, accidents or weather-related slow-downs.
Read More →The system, Bus on the Go, or BONGO, provides information about bus routes, schedules and the exact location of buses. The initial project cost nearly $300,000, with annual operating costs of about $100,000.
Read More →An industrial engineering assistant professor has brought together a group of students to research the current RoadRUNNER and Aggie Transit systems and come up with more efficient solutions.
Read More →Matt Brown, operations manager, explains that much of Astro Travel & Tours' business comes from school groups and sports teams, "especially Florida State University, right in our hometown, and the many other colleges whose athletes come to Tallahassee to play the Seminoles."
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