Planners at King County Metro Transit (WA) will compare two propulsion technologies for replacing its aging fleet of trolleybuses: updated electric trolleybuses or diesel-electric hybrids.
Students at the University of Pennsylvania have unveiled a plan to rebuild Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor and create what they’re calling “true high-speed rail.”
To mark the twentieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Easter Seals Project ACTION is hosting an online dialogue about the status of paratransit services.
Another blogging TriMet bus driver is in trouble. Last week, the agency put the author of TriMet Confidential on administrative leave after a questionable post about a near-miss with a bicyclist.
Princeton University professor Matthew Salganik developed All Our Ideas, a free open-source crowdsourcing platform that lets groups collect and prioritize ideas.
Planners at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (DC) are using next-bus data as a planning tool to identify the most congested bus corridors.
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.