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Inclusive Transit
Access to high-quality public transportation can make cities more inclusive by increasing mobility and opportunity, particularly…
Frequency + Transit
How do you make transit more useful for everyone? Investing in service frequency is a sure…
The Path to Partnership: How Cities and Transit Systems Can Stop Worrying and Join Forces
In order to keep and attract riders, transit must be frequent, fast, and reliable. Maintaining frequent,…
A New Way to Ride
The MTA's adoption of a new fare payment is an opportunity to pursue policies that can make transit faster, easier to understand, and fairer for the nearly nine million riders who rely on the MTA every day.
Aging + Transit
America is going gray. By 2030, nearly 20 percent of Americans will be 65 or older,…
Untangling Transit
In 2016, riders made five billion trips on city transit buses, comprisin over half of U.S.…
Climate Change + Transit
Shifting people away from private vehicles and into more efficient modes should be an obvious policy priority for urban leaders concerned about climate change.
Transit Transparency
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A Bid for Better Transit
Service contracting is a tool that government can use to improve transit service quality for riders and better position transit agencies to succeed in today’s dynamic transportation industry.
Who Pays For Parking?
How Federal Tax Subsidies Jam More Cars into Congested Cities, and How Cities Can Reclaim Their Streets
All Ages Access
The United States population is aging rapidly, and transit agencies should respond to these changing demographics by making urban transit and paratransit more accessible and useful for older residents.
Measures For Success: New Tools for Shaping Transportation Behavior
If you build it, will they come? As more and more American cities invest in transit,…