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During the meeting, agencies discussed strategies for accepting open bank card payments for public transportation; challenges and opportunities for commuter rail; best practices for transit business and technical architectures; financial industry technologies and directions that affect fare collection; and the impact of new fare collection systems on fare policy.
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Bill includes N.Y. Sen. Charles Schumer’s well-publicized “Grading System,” changes in how safety measures will be implemented and how the industry does business with public transit agencies.
Read More →FY 2012 Clean Fuels Grant Program will help transit agencies purchase and support cleaner, greener buses. Recipients include St. Cloud, Minn., which will receive $3.3 million to renovate its Metro Bus Operations Center, and the Transit Authority of River City in Louisville, Ky., which will receive $4.4 million to replace outdated, high-emission trolley cars with zero-emission buses.
Read More →New law allows both transit police and transit security to issue fare evasion tickets and send those that go unpaid to collection agencies. People who don’t pay could risk losing renewal or issue of a driver's license or vehicle registration.
Read More →Will provide transit agencies like Metro with real-time interaction between the vehicle fleet and dispatch center for safer and more efficient operations.
Read More →Congress should make it easier to use private contractors, consortia or financing so that agencies can better develop the best strategies that work for them.
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Transit agencies’ lost and found departments catalog, store and sometimes track down the owners of items left on buses and railcars.
Read More →Tec Tran, which has annual sales of about $10 million, designs and manufactures hydraulic braking systems and related components. The company’s customers include global transit car builders and many North American transit agencies.
Read More →The company, which was formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Digital Recorders Inc., will become a division of Clever Devices, remaining in its facility in Durham, N.C.
Read More →The federal funds are being leveraged with money from private sector partners, states, local governments, metropolitan planning organizations and transit agencies.
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