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While the need for more transportation options continues to grow, taking advantage of streamlined project initiatives and alternative-funding models will be key. Also important is grooming future leaders as the aging workforce moves toward retirement.
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The design of NYCT's $165M rail maintenance shop and car wash facility incorporates pollution prevention initiatives, waste avoidance and materials recycling, and helps the agency achieve an energy savings of 36%.
Read More →For many college engineering and architecture students, it’s probably a good bet that they have not given much consideration to careers in public transportation. Members of the SEPTA's Engineering, Maintenance and Construction Division have worked closely with Philadelphia-area university students to introduce them to job opportunities in the realm of mass transit.
Read More →In order for scheduled repairs to take place when subway ridership was at its lowest all year, the Maryland Transit Administration undertook an unprecedented plan to shut down the central core of the 33-year-old subway system for 21 days.
Read More →Design embraces Mexican folk art known as “papel picado,” which is created from cutting colorful sheets of tissue paper.
Read More →From initial station design to final installation and opening to the public, the process of incorporating works of art into transit systems involves both transit and art professionals, as well as community members.
Read More →Eco-friendly practices being implemented include constructing LEED-certified buildings, expanding recycling programs and investing in future technologies.
Read More →Axonis is an elevated metro system able to transport from 15 to 45,000 passengers per hour per direction, while Urbalis Fluence is the first vehicle-centric communications-based train control system.
Read More →For a second straight year, METRO highlights some of the various ways in which consultants provide support and expertise to a wide range of transit-related projects.
Read More →The $56M project brings ADA upgrades, new connections, and campus access to the station.
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