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“How much longer?” Technology’s role in retaining new transit users
Implementing real-time travel information technology could go a long way toward mitigating the feeling of loss of autonomy that keeps potential riders from trying transit, according to a study by Next...
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Transportation Investment Inter(Act)ive
If you’re having trouble wrapping your head around the wheres and whats of the Atlanta Regional Roundtable’s transportation project “wish list,” or if you’d just like a quick, easy way to get more...
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Taxis and transit: Competitive or complementary?
Diving headlong into an unfamiliar transit system in a new city is some people’s idea of a good time. Boarding the wrong bus or getting off at the wrong station, perhaps ending up miles from the...
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What “It doesn’t go anywhere” really means
In an outtake from his recently published book, Human Transit’s Jarrett Walker discusses a list of seven criteria that he says transit has to address to effectively compete with driving: 1. “It...
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You live in Atlanta but you don’t have a car, so…
You have only a very faint idea what the “top-end perimeter” is. You don’t know what or where Spaghetti Junction is. When people stagger into work groaning about how “Highway xxxx was backed up all...
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Regional rider surveys reveal locations, destinations, situations
Research from the Atlanta Regional Commission suggests that while geography is a pretty good predictor of where to find the most frequent transit users, who those users are is harder to pin down. The...
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Idea of the Day: Bus Bunching
Flickr photo by skew-t If you’d come out of Buckhead Station’s north exit around 6:00 p.m. Tuesday you would have noticed two things: first, that there were far more people waiting for the route 110...
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MARTA: Audit results in, Scott shipping out
The Atlanta Business Chronicle reported today that MARTA CEO Beverly Scott is headed to Boston to become MBTA’s general manager when her contract with MARTA expires in December. Scott spent five...
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Stat-urday: About the Bus
In honor of the first World Statistics Day, a few MARTA bus numbers: 500,000 miles or 10 years: The maximum service life of a bus. After buses are retired from service, they’re sold on a public online...
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