A new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation focuses on how other nations apply information technologies to address congestion, improve safety, and reduce emissions — and why the US is falling behind.
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority lacks the funds to complete a series of long-planned security upgrades, including digital surveillance cameras and motion detectors, according to a report from the state comptroller’s office.
Clever Commute, which uses crowdsourcing to help commuters share information about rail service, has added a feature that emails track numbers for outbound trains at Grand Central Terminal.
Susan Bregman is editor of The Transit Wire. She has been a consultant on transit policy and planning for fifteen years and before that worked for the Boston Transportation Department. In 2004 she founded Oak Square Resources, LLC, which focuses on transit research, policy, and communications.