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The transit industry is experiencing an unprecedented combination of factors that seriously affect transit service provision.  Rising fuel costs have driven many commuters to use public transit as their primary method of transportation to and from work.   To make matters worse, motor fuel tax revenues are down… Continue reading

What We’ve Learned Recently from Our Research about Your Top Challenges

In August 2008, NextBus conducted research among transit executives to determine their most important challenges. 

The five following issues were rated extremely important by more than 75% of respondents.  That is, they ranked… Continue reading

New Service to Improve Transportation Experience for Students, Faculty & Staff

The University of Baltimore shuttle service, operated by Capital Executive Transportation, is already well organized.  The university objective is to take it to the next level by making it as easy as possible for its commuter population to get where… Continue reading

$9.9 Million Contract for Implementation of Real-time Passenger Information System

The Board of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) approved the recommendation for award of contracts for the Next Vehicle Arrival System to Grey Island for its NextBus System. Total value of the contracts is $9,920,000.The… Continue reading

Lack of GPS AVL system makes the work much more challenging than it needs to be

In order to optimize the service it provides to its community, the University made a number of changes including the addition of new buses. According to Campus Times, the… Continue reading

We have just completed a research study among municipal transit executives designed to determine key trends and technologies as of August 2008. The study covers a broad range of transit systems from very large to very small.

Here are key findings:

• 37% have seen more than a 10% increase in ridership over the past six months
• 32% operate more than 100 transit vehicles
• 68% carry more than one million passengers annually
• Only 4%

The Laramie campus of the University has run a shuttle service just since 2002 but it has become an increasingly popular alternative to automobiles for its student population.

Within just three years of its launch, the system had already carried its one millionth passenger.  Annual… Continue reading

Maryland school invests in transit technology to better serve its community of shuttle riders.

With nearly 20,000 students, Towson University is the second-largest public university in Maryland. As a metropolitan university, Towson combines research-based learning with practical application. Their many interdisciplinary partnerships with public and private… Continue reading

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

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