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Newsby News/Media ReleaseSeptember 26, 2025

APTA Releases 2025 Public Transportation Vehicle Database

The new data shows major transit technology advances across North America.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 17, 2025

FTA Releases Preliminary Findings on How Transit is Improving Worker Safety

Preliminary analysis of agency responses shows more than two-thirds of transit agencies determined that strategies are necessary to reduce the risk related to assaults on transit workers, and these agencies are working to roll out a variety of mitigation measures.

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Newsby Staff and News ReportsJanuary 8, 2025

FTA Report Finds Public Transit Ridership Up 17% Nationwide in 2023

The increase reflects more Americans choosing to take buses, subways, light rail, and other modes to travel to work, school, services, and weekend activities across the country and came as transit agencies better understood ridership needs following travel pattern changes during the pandemic.

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Transit Dispatchesby Mark R. AeschDecember 10, 2024

Our Communities Will Value Happier Customers

Since the 1950’s, the transit industry has focused solely on the "more" portion of that sentence.

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Newsby StaffAugust 27, 2024

Swiftly Annouces Acquisition of Hopthru

The move adds Hopthru’s ridership data and analytics solutions to Swiftly’s platform, giving agencies powerful ways to access, clean, monitor, and analyze ridership data for NTD reporting, service planning, scheduling, and more.

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Articlesby Staff and News ReportsDecember 20, 2023

FTA Takes Steps to Address Nationwide Transit Worker Assaults

The Administration is encouraging members of the public, transit agencies, and other interested parties to submit comments on the proposed General Directive, which will be open for 60 days until February 20.

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ArticlesNovember 19, 2019

Improving transit on-time performance

This first of a two-part series explores causes for poor on-time performance and data considerations to adjust vehicle schedules.

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Newsby StaffOctober 23, 2018

Researchers find Uber boosts public transit ridership

Mass-transit ridership was estimated using NTD data, which differentiates between different modes of travel.

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Newsby StaffJune 19, 2018

New bill protects bus drivers from attacks, requires database reporting

The bill gives transit agencies two years to develop Bus Operations Safety Risk Reduction Programs.

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Newsby StaffFebruary 26, 2018

Greater Seattle area leads nation in transit ridership growth

Transit ridership on Sound Transit Link light rail, Metro bus service, and ST Express bus service operated by Metro fueled the growth.

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