Recognized Alongside Disney, PBS, and Netflix for Creative Excellence New York, NY (May 7, 2024) – Transit Unplugged TV has been recognized with a 2024 Communicator Award from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA). Hosted by transit evangelist and Modaxo SVP Paul Comfort, Transit Unplugged TV is a travel show featuring the best in people transportation…
Big collaboration news in the US capital region the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments launched a historic initiative, creating comprehensive regional transit planning for Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Congratulations to the winners of the APTA Bus Safety, Security, and Emergency Management Awards. Winners include CapMetro and Corpus Christi…
The BBC reports an autonomous transit bus is being tested in Seoul, South Korea, the first of its kind in the world. The self-driving Night Bus still requires a safety driver at this time while testing is underway. Anaheim Transportation Network opened a new electric bus charging facility. As one of the first all-electric bus…
Today Brightline West holds its official groundbreaking ceremony in Las Vegas bringing them one step closer to providing a 2-hour, high-speed passenger rail service between Las Vegas and Southern California. Source: Brightline Florida’s Broward County Transit is using a compassionate approach to manage homelessness. In November, they began a pilot program to address the issues…
An innovative trespassing system will be tested on passenger rail tracks in California… a new report says public transit is good for the environment… and a new group of graduates is ready to work on the California high speed rail project. Welcome to your Transit Unplugged News Minute. Southern California’s passenger rail, MetroLink, was awarded…
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority successfully completed its five year tunnel drilling project to expand the D Line subway and connect downtown and West L.A. One of the engineering challenges included The program included drilling through prehistoric tar sands near the La Brea Tar Pits. Source: LA Metro Las Vegas is starting a pilot…
The IBTTA extends support to Baltimore, New York is one step closer to congestion pricing, and the ThinkTransit Conference wraps up in Tucson. Welcome to your Transit Unplugged News Minute. In response to the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, the International Bridge, Tunnel, and Turnpike Association has offered its…
Fare evasion enforcement is heating up and the MBTA is celebrating transit driver appreciation month. With a fiscal cliff coming for many transit agencies who are nearing the end of COVID relief subsidies, farebox revenue is becoming increasingly important and now there are efforts to step up fare enforcement. Last year, the Toronto Transit Commission…
The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded over $3 billion dollars in federal funding through the Reconnecting Communities Pilot and Neighborhood Access and Equity grant programs. This funding will reconnect communities that were divided by transportation infrastructure decades ago. Source: U.S. DOT A one-year multi-modal pilot is underway in Vancouver, BC. The RideLink smartphone app integrates…
There is some amazing chemistry and physics going on inside those buses When people hear hydrogen, the Hindenburg disaster immediately comes to mind. Lesson learned, you have to be super careful around gaseous hydrogen. But it’s exactly that ability to store and release energy (lots of it) that makes it a great fuel for everything…
