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November 24, 2015
Working for the Change We Seek

TransitCenter was reborn as a civic philanthropy in mid-2013, amid one of the most transformative moments in transportation. The first...

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November 6, 2015
Injecting Innovation into Public Transportation: Announcing nine new TransitCenter grantees

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kyle Moler | 202-478-6173 | [email protected] TransitCenter awards nearly $1 million in grants to projects focused on improving urban...

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October 23, 2015
Reform before revenue: how poor governance and management is holding Oregon back

Portland was once a leader in transportation innovation, but today other metro regions around the nation are setting the pace...

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October 12, 2015
Trick Out My Trip with ioby

In 2015, TransitCenter partnered with ioby (it stands for In Our Backyard, an organization that is the counterweight to the prevailing...

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September 23, 2015
When Bus Riders Matter

New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal has garnered many epithets: “The Single Worst Place on Planet Earth,” “If Hell Had...

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September 21, 2015
MTA’s open data takes center stage in BusVis

In our recent post highlighting a few of the important opportunities created by the MTA’s open data program, we promised...

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September 4, 2015
Uber Neutral

In a new analysis titled Uber-Positive, Jared Meyer of the Manhattan Institute concludes that “The Ride-Share Firm Expands Transportation Options in Low-Income...

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August 31, 2015
Can Pittsburgh build the next great American transit system?

TransitCenter staff returned last week from a great trip to Pittsburgh, where we spent two days learning about local efforts and...

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August 19, 2015
Transit Leadership in the Lone Star State

Regular readers of our blog have gotten to know that TransitCenter’s interests are at the intersection of new ideas and...

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August 11, 2015
Big (Data) Opportunity to Rethink NYC’s Buses

Every thirty seconds a stream of GPS data is broadcasted from thousands of local buses operating in New York City, making...

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July 29, 2015
Bending the Urban Transportation Arc

While Congress is consumed with the latest debate over extending the federal transportation policy, progress to make our cities’ streets...

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July 28, 2015
A People’s History of Recent Urban Transportation Innovation

What started as a straightforward and curious question – what were the human factors behind recent urban transportation innovations in the United States –...

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