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Newsby News/Media ReleaseSeptember 2, 2022

TARTA Taps ETA Transit for New Intelligent Transit System

TARTA’s new cloud-hosted SPOT CAD/AVL system delivers a suite of real-time arrival predictions, data collection and analysis, and system management tools.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseAugust 26, 2022

FTA Administrator Fernandez Announces Funding for 3 Transit Agencies

The announcements are part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Building a Better America Tour that Secretary Pete Buttigieg kicked off in Tampa, Fla.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseAugust 11, 2022

Environmental Assessment Details Effects of Proposed Congestion Pricing Program in New York

The document finds that central business district tolling would accomplish the goal of New York State’s MTA Reform and Traffic Mobility Act of reducing traffic congestion in the Manhattan Central Business District and raising revenue for investment in transit.

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ArticlesCover Storyby Louis PrejeanAugust 11, 2022

Safe and Secure: Transit Agencies Push for Community Improvement

From helping societal problems like homelessness and mental health to adding more security officers, these agencies are providing an example of how transit can help a community.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseJuly 21, 2022

Transit Center Report Examines Bus Operator Issues, Provides Possible Solutions

According to the Transit Center report, a key cause of difficulties recruiting and retaining new workers is the steady deterioration of one of transit’s most essential jobs.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseJuly 14, 2022

NTSB Finds Driver in Fatal Texas Crash Was Not 13-Year-Old Male

In addition to the DNA test results identifying the father as the pickup truck driver, NTSB post-crash toxicological testing revealed the presence of methamphetamine in the pickup truck driver’s blood.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseJuly 14, 2022

First Vehicle Services Opens Retail Location

The fleet service center will provide preventive and emergency maintenance for all vehicle types.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseJuly 13, 2022

Mineta Report Examines Fare-Free Transit's 'Grand Opportunity'

“Free Transit: It All Depends on How” presents a variety of ideas that show promise in empowering policymakers to combine free transit with other policies to overcome pressing problems in the transportation industry.

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Newsby News/Media ReleaseJune 7, 2022

Grant Establishes New Consortium, Climate Change Research Program

From this grant, San José State University’s Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) will receive $4.6 million to help create a multi-university consortium.

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Leveraging AI/ML to Improve Public Transit Equity, Access, and Operational Efficiencies

Public transit has struggled to retain passengers in North America for many years, while in Europe it has proven to be a fundamental public good. This divergence in the role of public shared mobility versus private individualized mobility has reached a tipping point during the COVID pandemic.

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