Reducing the number of stops reduces the time buses spend decelerating, standing still, and accelerating, making it one of the most effective ways for transit agencies to speed up bus service.
Read MoreVia, San Antonio's transit agency, has installed the most bus shelters in the shortest amount of time of any US city.
Read MoreAs TransitCenter’s latest report, “From Sorry to Superb: Everything You Need to Know About Better Bus Stops” chronicles, nearly half of all public transit rides in the US begin at a bus stop. Yet our bus stops are woefully underfunded.
Read MoreThis week, we’re in Austin working with Capital Metro to test a new bus dispatching method in hopes of reducing bunching and improving reliability along the MetroRapid lines.
Read MoreWe were curious: if we held all transit agencies to the same “On Time Performance” metric, how would they stack up against each other?
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