Renderings from New York City’s proposed Brooklyn-Queens streetcar (known as the BQX) omit any hint of the overhead catenary wires that are integral to many electric rail lines, especially those plying busy city streets.
Read MoreHB2, the law recently passed by the legislature of North Carolina and signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory, endorses discrimination.
The redesign of Houston’s bus network was accomplished during three years of planning and consultation and then implemented overnight on August 16, 2015.
Read MoreWhat would Shin-pei Tsay, Deputy Executive Director of TransitCenter, was steeped in urban design, with a city planning degree and a career in civic advocacy say to a room full of likely future highway engineers?
Read MoreChicago is abuzz over city legislation introduced last week requiring Uber and Lyft drivers to meet some cab driver licensing...
Read MoreTransitCenter spoke recently with Stewart Schwartz, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-area Coalition for Smarter Growth and board member of the Richmond, Virginia Partnership for Smarter Growth (PSG).
Read MoreThe era of open data in public transportation has just begun.
The National Transit Database shows that the D.C. rail system is firmly in the middle of the pack in capital investment terms, not far behind the New York City subway in capital spending per track-mile over the last five years.
Read MoreCivic technologists joined transit planning experts and advocates on March 5 for the first NYC Bus Data Hackathon, convened by...