Technology in Transit: An Unprecedented Opportunity to Evolve
Technology provides the means to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of services provided by public transportation agencies to their customers. Despite the potentially large upfront costs to implement technological advances into current systems, the improvements in customer-perceived quality, safety, efficiency of services, and cost-savings that could be produced in the long-run provides an opportunity […]
Will Transit Trends Seen in 2021 Remain in 2022?
Nationally transit agencies faced a lot of challenges in 2021 as agencies began to define a new normal. In attempts to recover from the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic transit agencies began to think differently about how to provide quality transit services to essential workers and customers while dealing with operator shortages and streamlining […]
News Roundup: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and What it Means for Transit
For the transit industry, the events of the past couple of weeks have been deeply influential. The signing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has confirmed the continuation of the period of record-high funding for transit that began during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. President Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law […]
From Volume to Value – Revolutionizing the Definition of Success in Transit – Recap
Immediate past chair of APTA, Dave Stackrow facilitated a panel of transit innovators at the closing session of the 2021 APTA Expo. Recognizing the urgent need for the transit industry to revolutionize the way it defines and measures success, the panel addressed how their agencies are leading the way in objectively measuring the VALUE of […]
Takeaways from Orlando
Transit is Different Going Forward — Executives Will Need to Lead Differently — and Substantial Investment Requires Substantial Results It was a big week for the transit industry. The first time to be together as the American Public Transportation Association since New York City in November of 2019. In fact, at that session, APTA sponsored […]
TransDASH: Changing the Conversation from Volume to Value
In anticipation of this year’s APTA conference, we have been exploring the idea of Value versus Volume – engaging in conversation with select industry leaders and peers. At our APTA session, we are prepared to bring this discussion to the table of the broader industry – sharing how TransDASH is going to shift the conversation […]
Driving Change and Transformation in Allegheny County, Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Toledo
As the needs of both transit agencies and communities evolve, organizational and structural changes need to take place to satisfy the needs of the future. Many agencies are experiencing or driving change as they define the path towards growth and success. The Port Authority of Allegheny County and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) are […]
TransDash: Your Speedometer for Success
As agencies begin to envision what recovery looks like in the context of a post-pandemic world, many of them are focused on ridership recovery. There exists more valuable measurements to transit system success than ridership alone, and there exists a tool to view those metrics. The TransPro team is dedicated to constructing a tool that […]
Happening in Transit: Equity, Access, Autonomous Vehicles
As the transit industry navigates challenges both old and new, transit advocates continue to push for progress in equitable access and sustainability and alternative mobility solutions. 15 of 18 transit-related ballot measures were approved in the US last week, totaling an estimated $40 billion towards improving mobility. While ridership is still down 63% nationally, communities […]
News Roundup: Focus on Community in OKC and San Francisco
In recent months, some agencies have focused on increasing the value that the transit system brings to the community overall – not just its riders. Many of our clients have also embraced community value as a measurement of success – some have even prioritized Community Value as the number one strategic pillar of success over […]