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Florida Transit Safety and Operations Network (FTSON)
The purpose is to provide resources and a platform for discussion of safety and operational challenges, opportunities, and initiatives impacting public transportation providers in Florida.
In the last few years, expanding high-frequency transit service has become a hot topic at transit agencies across the country, and for good reason: research shows that frequent service is one of the best ways to keep riders of public transit, well, riding public transit. Continue reading….
Journal of Public Transportation Article in Volume 17, Issue 4 (2014) by Jeffrey M. Casello, Geoffrey McD. Lewis, Kevin Yeung, Deborah Santiago-Rodriguez. This paper presents an easy-to-use model to assist in technology selection for transit planning. The model computes annual costs for two technologies—currently BRT and LRT—for a system with characteristics specified by the user…