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.
Can the MTA’s chairman and CEO Jay Walder convince New Yorkers to embrace the bus? New York Magazine explores the challenges, opportunities, and politics involved with introducing BRT.
Des Moines (IA) is taking steps to keep its status as a livable community. These include GPS bus tracking and real time arrival information for DART buses.
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.