Smart Transit Blog

We’ve covered a lot about mobile ticketing on this blog – from UX and UI to its key position in the MaaS adoption process. A…

Oftentimes, public transportation is seen as a separate entity – and we all know that this simply is not true. Public transportation is part of…

We travel more, we travel faster. The effects of the pandemic are gradually wearing off and more and more people are heading back on their…

There are several buzzwords every transit professional is currently bombarded with: multimodality, MaaS, open payments, sustainability… Automatic fare collection interoperability is certainly on this list,…

Don’t break it if it ain’t broken – a centuries-old adage that sometimes does more harm than good. Especially in the case of important services…

Automatic vehicle location is one of the first steps toward a comprehensive transformation that a transit agency can take. AVL technology has the capacity to…

Public transit can be sustainable – but is it? With millions of dollars being poured into transit, one thing is becoming clear: it takes a…

Protecting riders is one of the most important jobs of a transit agency. This includes keeping them safe during transit – making sure all vehicles…

Social inequality presents itself in many ways – housing inequality, healthy food access inequality, and healthcare inequality just to name a few. One of the…

Public transit has changed rapidly over the past century with the steady development of faster, more reliable technology. The transit ecosystem has also benefited from…

We all love the flexibility that personal vehicles give us – we’re not dependent on schedules, we ride in our perfectly climatized car alone, and…

Automated fare collection systems have been around since the 1960s and have become as ubiquitous as public transit itself. Their basic function is to make…

Decarbonization, sustainability, carbon emissions, net zero… All these buzzwords are flooding the headlines across almost every industry’s press materials. But what do they mean in…

More that 51% of Americans are using some form of contactless payment cards. This type of payment has become such a natural part of our…