The collaboration empowers transit agencies to enhance microtransit and paratransit services using Uber's network.
The additional buses will ensure 15-minute frequency every hour during the day. Funding for the buses will be from the project coming $5 million dollars under budget.
The agreement will see Preteckt’s technology used by PSTA’s bus maintenance team after a pilot project.
The region’s first bus rapid transit system will be growing its footprint with a new station in downtown St. Petersburg.
The national average hit Pinellas County residents nearly $4.40 per gallon.
The base term for the contract is two years, with options to extend for three additional one-year periods.
While much of society is still grappling with the realities surrounding real-world autonomous implementations, various transit authorities and mobility-as-a-service pioneer, Beep, have been bringing concept into reality across the country.
The agency’s announcement comes after PSTA unveiled four electric depot bus chargers in June of 2021.
The board at St. Petersburg, Fla.’s Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority unanimously approved a three-year contract with its union, SEIU, which will bump the starting pay for bus operators from $15 per hour to $16 per hour, beginning Oct. 1.
The association released a new report titled "Mobility Innovation: The Case for Federal Investment and Support."
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