Let’s Dig Deep: Performance Measures in Transportation Project Selection
Growing up at the northern fringes of the Boston Metropolitan Area, my family would drive the 30 miles into Boston for various events, be they cultural, culinary, or other. The drive into the city...
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Getting to the Route of It
Click here to download the full report. Yesterday, TransitCenter and the Eno Center for Transportation released our newest report, Getting to the Route of It: The Role of Governance in Regional...
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Jaime Lerner in NYC Oct 15
Here’s your chance to learn from a fella behind the modern bus rapid transit (BRT) movement, Jaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba. As students of urban transport, we have all had Curitiba’s BRT...
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Trick Out Our Trip
image via flickr This fall, TransitCenter partnered with ioby (it stands for In Our Backyard, an organization that is the counterweight to the prevailing Not In My Backyardism that tends to oppose...
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Live Ride Share
In February 2015, TransitCenter served as the primary financial sponsor of “Live Ride Share,” the first conference in Southern California dedicated to connecting the region’s growing public transit...
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Advocates Guide Transit Growth in Louisiana
Rachel DiResto Executive VP of Baton Rouge-based Center for Planning Excellence with TransitCenter staff on New Orleans street car. Photo credit: David Bragdon Economic and political opportunities in...
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StreetsCamp elevates transit discourse in Washington, DC metro region
Successful campaigns to improve transit – and urban mobility more generally – depend on key contributions from community advocates, city government, and transit agencies. The venues are few and far...
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How Federal Policy Holds Back Local TDM Innovation — And How It Can Help
Arlington County’s CarFreeAtoZ multimodal trip planner is emblematic of local innovation in demand management. Next week is the annual conference of the Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT),...
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We’ve Seen the Future of Transit Fares
New York’s MTA just announced it would begin replacing the MetroCard with a “tap and go” card as soon as 2018, presenting a pivotal opportunity to implement a fare payment system that best serves...
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