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The new mobile booking platform and backend system aim to streamline operations, improve communication, and better serve riders across a 20,000-square-mile region.
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Community input, new tech, and smarter routes drive Arrowhead Transit's system changes, reshaping rural mobility in Minnesota.
Read More →Officials said the initiative, developed through extensive community engagement and driven by equity, accessibility, and service quality, represents one of the most ambitious rural public transportation overhauls currently underway in the U.S.
Read More →Evolving population trends continue to map the paths of a new, modern commute — one that’s giving transit leaders an opportunity to consider public transit strategies with a deeper, multimodal approach.
Read More →Reconnecting America and the Community Transportation Association of America’s "Putting Transit to Work in Main Street America," found that smaller communities are making a wide variety of transit investments, and these investments have had a positive impact on both the economy and the quality of life of residents.
Read More →Providing much-needed paratransit and access to jobs in often very remote areas, agencies in these regions struggle with some of the same challenges that small urbanized agencies do: funding, and rising fuel costs and demand, which have a significant impact on a vulnerable population.
Read More →The agency is introducing 13 zero-emission buses into revenue service while evaluating performance across its urban, rural, and long-distance routes.
Read More →Often when we report on public transit systems across the U.S., they are in urban or suburban areas. Rural transit operations are dealing with many of the same issues as urban ones, but aren’t able to offer as many options, as we report in our upcoming June issue. Additionally, they also have significant paratransit duties, which we also plan to look into in future stories.
Read More →The intercity bus industry reaches 91% (75 million) of the rural population and serves as the sole mode for 15 million people.
Read More →Following four case studies demonstrate the breadth and creativity of rural transit and the leadership of visionary transit managers.
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