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The Maryland Department of Transportation's Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) issued a  Request for Proposals to plan and provide microtransit or demand-responsive transit to increase efficiency of the MTA’s existing LocalLink 75 route. The service ...

Recently, the Division of Standards informed Uber that the device they use to calculate fare and distance needs to be certified by a national standard setting organization and, until that process began, the device could not be used in Massachusetts. The ...

MassRIDES of MassDOT provides many commuter incentive programs, including Emergency Rides Home (ERH), and NuRide. MassRIDES promotes and incentivizes alternative transportation options to SOV's, including vanpooling, carpooling, biking, walking etc. NuRide ...

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) have partnered with transportation network companies (TNCs), Lyft and Uber, to launch a one-year pilot program aiming to improve mobility ...

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), the public transit operator for the Greater Boston area, has partnered with Lyft to bring Lyft’s “Nearby Transit” feature to Boston. Through this partnership, MBTA transit information–such ...

Zipcar and the MBTA have partnered to place about 100 Zipcars at 27 locations. The partnership was expanded and renewed in 2007. In 2014, Zipcar joined the Ridescout trip aggregator that added taxis, bikesharing, parking, and expanded trip-planning ...

Per their Strategic Plan--specifically the sections "Focus on Customer Experience" and "Flexibility to Adapt and Evolve"--the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has initiated various innovative pilot projects that take advantage of the public-private ...

The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (aka the "T") is exempted from certain state procurement restrictions so they can pursue some of their P3 strategies. Maintenance and operations account for 85% of all MBTA costs. Although MBTA, like many transit ...

From the abstract: On May 7, 2016 residents of Austin, TX voted against Proposition 1, which would have allowed transportation networking companies (TNCs) to continue using their own background check systems. The defeat of the proposition prompted Uber ...

A report by civil engineer Annie Chang was released by Medium's OneZero in January 2020, and it explores traffic data to assess the question: are e-scooters dangerous? The report draws heavily from Chang's PhD dissertation at McGill University, and well ...