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When it comes to addressing urban transportation problems, autonomous vehicles are not the answer. And yet,…

Access to high-quality public transportation can make cities more inclusive by increasing mobility and opportunity, particularly…

How do you make transit more useful for everyone? Investing in service frequency is a sure…

In order to keep and attract riders, transit must be frequent, fast, and reliable. Maintaining frequent,…

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.

America is going gray. By 2030, nearly 20 percent of Americans will be 65 or older,…

In 2016, riders made five billion trips on city transit buses, comprisin over half of U.S.…

Shifting people away from private vehicles and into more efficient modes should be an obvious policy priority for urban leaders concerned about climate change.

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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.

How Federal Tax Subsidies Jam More Cars into Congested Cities, and How Cities Can Reclaim Their Streets

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.