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MBTA partners with company to offer real-time info by text

February 2, 2012
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The MBTA has teamed up with software company CooCoo to provide real-time bus and commuter rail arrival estimates by text message.

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How car-sharing companies choose their markets

January 31, 2012
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Transportation Nation spoke with representatives from three car-sharing services to better understand how they choose their locations.

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Electric vehicles of the future

January 30, 2012
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Blogging from the TRB Annual Meeting, The City Fix looked at the European experience with electric vehicle car-sharing and personal rapid transit.

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New York transit police get upgraded radios

January 29, 2012

The NYPD Transit Bureau purchased 2,700 dual-band radios which will allow police patrolling the subway system to communicate with officers on the street.

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Wrapping up TRB in ten tweets

January 27, 2012

It’s impossible to summarize TRB in a few tweets, but here are ten that touch upon the meeting’s combination of research, collaboration, and magic.

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Transport for London to select WiFi supplier in spring

January 26, 2012

Transport for London will announce its selection this spring for a vendor to install WiFi in 120 London Underground stations in time for the Olympics.

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New tool lets travelers choose hotel by transit travel time

January 24, 2012

Google had added a new feature to its experimental Hotel Finder tool that lets users search for a place to stay based on walking or transit travel time.

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Is new walking app racist?

January 24, 2012

Microsoft received a patent for a mobile mapping feature designed to help pedestrians avoid dangerous neighborhoods, bad weather, and difficult terrain.

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TransportationCamp comes to DC…and The Transit Wire was there

January 22, 2012

Saturday was my first time at TransportationCamp, the unconference that explores the intersection of urban transportation and technology.

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BART inspires Instagram photo group

January 20, 2012

Fans of the iPhone photo application Instagram used BART (CA) as their inspiration and took their monthly photo walk on the train.

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