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Training ROI - Learn How to Advocate for Training Investment at Your Location with Return-on-Investment Tools from the Center
 Are you frustrated with how little time and money your organization puts into training? Trying to figure out how to make upper management prioritize training? One easy solution is to prove that training holds a high return on investment, or ROI. Previous literature published by the Center, including Metrics of Success, shows that for every dollar invested in transit training there is a return between 292-745 percent. The Center's most recent publication on Return on Investment, Method and Processes for Transit Training Metrics and Return on Investment, offers a progressive five-level procedure beginning with rather easy steps agencies can take to prove the value of training and building from there depending on available resources. For more information measuring return on investment at your location, contact the Center's Director for Research, Xinge Wang.
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DC Streets Blog - August 1, 2013
Tomorrow marks the end of Anthony Foxx's first month as the U.S. secretary of transportation. Today he met with reporters who have been eager for an on-the-record meeting with him. Though Foxx has been confident and specific in answering questions by members of Congress, he was more reserved with the press gaggle. He repeated some comfortable administration talking points, even at one point making reference to "places like Peoria" - his predecessor's hometown.
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AASHTO - August 2, 2013
After days of debate, both the House and Senate set aside their appropriations bills for Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development this week without passage, leaving the bills to be addressed after the five-week recess that begins this afternoon. The House dropped the measure Wednesday, while the Senate voted down a procedural vote to prevent moving the bill further. The House's THUD appropriations bill, H.R. 2610 stood at $44.1 billion, reflecting cuts to levels lower than would result from a potential FY 2014 sequestration. Dozens of amendments were proposed for the bill.
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Crain's New York Business - August 1, 2013
At a Crain's breakfast next month, newly installed Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Thomas Prendergast will deliver his first public address since assuming the helm of the nation's largest public transit system. With a plethora of difficulties facing the agency, from looming budget deficits to an unresolved union contract, the MTA veteran should have plenty of news, but not necessarily of the happy variety.
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Sacramento Bee - August 2, 2013
The MBTA says it pulled in a record amount of fare revenue in the last fiscal year despite a slight drop in overall ridership. The T raised fares by an average 23 percent on July 1, 2012 to help offset a budget deficit. In the fiscal year that ended June 30, the transit system said it took in about $565 million in fare revenue, an increase of nearly $100 million from the previous year. At the same time, ridership dropped 2 percent in the last fiscal year. The MBTA had predicted that the higher fares might cause ridership to fall as much as 5 percent.
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Progressive Railroading - August 5, 2013
On Friday, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) announced its proposed new seating configuration for the next generation of rail cars that it plans to purchase and introduce starting in 2016. The new seating design is a "hybrid of the best features" of the agency's existing car styles and incorporates forward- and aisle-facing seats, CTA officials said in a press release. The agency conducted empirical research and customer surveys to develop its recommendations, they said.
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Fox News - August 6, 2013
The burly officer watching over the bike racks at a Boston-area transportation hub is a real stiff. As part of an effort to cut crime at the Alewife MBTA subway and bus station in Cambridge, transit police placed a cardboard cutout of a police officer in the bicycle cage. Hundreds of people use the racks daily. Deputy Chief Robert Lenehan says the fake cop, along with video cameras and a new lock, has cut bike thefts by 67 percent. It's also a money saver. Lenehan estimates it would cost $200,000 a year to have an officer watch over the cage full-time.
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The Motley Fool - August 5, 2013
On this day in economic and business history...The modern labor community has its own method of dating history. There's "Before Reagan," which covers much of the history of labor rights in the 20th century, and then there's "After Reagan," which begins on Aug. 5, 1981, when President Ronald Reagan broke the strike of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, or PATCO.
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Progressive Railroading - August 5, 2013
California Gov. Jerry Brown late last night appointed a board to investigate the contract dispute between Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and its two largest unions, which ended the immediate threat of a service disruption. The governor, who acted in response to an appeal yesterday from BART President Tom Radulovich, halts any strike or lockout for at least a week, according to a statement issued by Brown's office.
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Mercury News - August 6, 2013
AC Transit buses will be rolling Wednesday after a contract deal was reached less than an hour before a threatened midnight strike that would have crippled public transit in the East Bay. AC Transit and the union representing its East Bay bus drivers, mechanics and dispatchers reached the agreement after a marathon day of negotiations.
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Miami Herald - August 4, 2013
Miami-Dade Transit is exploring options to convert its fleet of 817 Metrobuses from diesel to compressed natural gas, department director Ysela Llort said. "One of the things we are going to be looking at is changing our bus fleet to CNG," Llort, the MDT director, said recently in a speech to Spanish business executives in Miami. "[County Mayor Carlos Gimenez] believes the time has come to get rid of diesel and to get on with something that is an American product, that is a green product, and that can impact our fuel costs."
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Building Transportation Infrastructure
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Progressive Railroading - August 6, 2013
Yesterday, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley announced $650 million for transportation projects in Montgomery County and $400 million for the $2.2 billion Purple Line project. The state will complete the Purple Line, a proposed 16-mile light-rail line from Bethesda in Montgomery County to New Carollton in Prince George's County, through a public-private partnership, according to a press release issued by the Maryland Department of Transportation.
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Progressive Railroading - August 2, 2013
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) yesterday released an updated master plan for Union Station that reflects public input and additional technical analysis for proposed improvements to the downtown Los Angeles hub. The master plan team of LACMTA, Gruen Associates and Grimshaw Architects of New York and London have refined the concepts with particular emphasis on earlier public input that dealt largely with proposed improvements to transit connections, LACMTA officials said in a press release.
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Indianapolis Business Journal - July 31, 2013
Central Indiana's mass-transit planners unveiled detailed route information for the first time Wednesday and say a series of open-house meetings in August will be the public's last chance to request changes before final recommendations go before the Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization. Although state legislation to create a regional mass-transit system failed this year, the MPO still has $2.4 million in grants to complete planning for three rapid-transit lines. (The planning money is a $2 million federal grant, plus a $400,000 match from the city of Indianapolis.)
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