Transit

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Public transportation is a critical part of the economic and social fabric of metropolitan areas. While most of the nation’s 2,400 transit providers serve rural areas, almost all transit trips occur in the nation’s 100 largest metro areas, which account for over 95 percent of all transit passenger miles traveled. Transit is also changing as agencies are exploring ways to redesign their networks, integration new mobility services, and ask voters to approve new investments at the ballot box.

California High-Speed Rail Project Wants 1/4 of All IIJA Rail Grant Money

This month, the California High Speed Rail Authority said that it needs $8 billion in federal grants under the Infrastructure...

Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Hearing: Railway Safety Act The Main Focus

The U.S Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee held a hearing on March 22 to discuss safety issues pertaining to the...

Payments for Mobility: A Gateway to Transportation Access and Financial Inclusion

When we look around today, we see an increasing array of transportation options available to connect us and our communities. After...

Three P’s of Better Bus: People, Priority, and Partnerships

Transit agencies and cities across the country are doubling down on bus— and it’s about time. Before the pandemic, cities like...

This is Our Moment

I am the daughter of Patience and mother of Joy, who both gifted me with virtues that define my present outlook on what it takes to...

Women at the Frontline of Transit

The International Transportation Learning Center (ITLC) was established in 2001 to develop training and career ladder systems for...

Administration Proposes Temporary Transit Operating Subsidies, Other Policy Changes in FY24 Budget

The fiscal 2024 transportation budget request was mostly devoid of new policy proposals, but mass transit is the exception. The budget...

Could the Bay Area Lose BART?

“Politicians pass around the phrase all the time, ‘it’s too big to fail’ because money has to come from somewhere,”...

DOT Proposes Signing $19 Billion in FFGAs in FY24

Under the Biden Administration's proposed budget for fiscal 2024, this will be the year when all of the pre-Biden mass transit Capital...

Pete Buttigieg’s presidential Hopes Make Him an Easy Target for Republicans — and his Slow Response in Ohio Gave Them Plenty of Ammo

"Because we've never had a secretary who had national political ambitions before, people are treating him a little more differently...

City Transit Systems Begin to Peer Over the Fiscal Cliff

“Cutting service is a feedback loop that makes everyone worse off,” Shrode says. “Even when you cut a significant amount of...

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