Researchers at the Institut des Systemes Complexes in Paris (France) have examined trip data for 11.2 million transit trips in London (UK) during a week in 2008.
Victoria’s Transport Ticketing Authority (Australia) will share myki smartcard data with police during criminal investigations, according to the Sunday Herald Sun.
While the ORCA smart card offers convenient to passengers in the Seattle (WA) area, customers may not realize that their employers can check their travel patterns.
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.