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Many universities with brilliant students benefit from technology that they developed for the benefit of the community. So it is with MIT where a student designed system helped run their University shuttle. The downside of student developed technology is that when the designers graduate, it can become very difficult to maintain and upgrade that technology.

So it is with… Continue reading

We have added an automated passenger counting tool to our suite of products. Now you will know–in real-time just how many riders you have on every vehicle and on every route.

Here are the New Passenger Counter Capabilities:

The Real Time Passenger Information (RTPI) system also can add an optional Automatic Passenger Counter (APC), which includes the following features:

• Active infrared sensors
• Fully automatic passenger detection

How Your Agency Can Save Money, Time, and Aggravation

Real-time Passenger Information Systems (RTPIS) provide a wealth of information to both the transit agency’s customers, as well as the managers, planners, supervisors, and even bus operators of that transit agency. The name “Real-time Passenger

In June 2008, regular gasoline costs more than four dollars a gallon. That sounds bad, but it may be just the beginning. It could well spike to five dollars a gallon by July and six dollars within the next 12 months, according to experts such as T. Boone Pickens. Suddenly, diehard car drivers are becoming born-again… Continue reading

College and university transit agencies share many similarities with their larger municipal and regional transit agency cousins. Both typically provide fixed route, paratransit, and other demand-response services including charter services. They use the same equipment and employ bus operators who are required to have the same… Continue reading

Student Run Service Handles 3 Million Passengers Yearly for Davis Community

What is Unitrans? A Brief History: Unitrans was founded in 1968 as the University Transport System, when the Associated Students of UC Davis purchased two vintage London doubledecker buses to operate on two routes.

In 1972… Continue reading

If you’ve ever wondered how your transit services stack up to those across the country, this article is for you. NextBus surveyed 75 U.S. universities and you may find the results surprising!

The majority of respondents believe that university transit systems improve the quality of university life… Continue reading

Thanks to NextBus, students get around campus quickly and reliably

College poses plenty of challenges as students acclimate themselves to a new way of living. The stress of a new environment, financial constraints, and academic obligations can lead to quite a few undesirable attributes, from weight gain to… Continue reading