Insights

In September 2023, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the United States set a new record for the number of weather...

With a potential disaster coming for transit agencies, how can you future-proof your agency’s transit operations? Transit agencies across the country are...

In the last half century, so much has changed about the way people move around their communities. Yet, our public transit systems have largely remained...

What is transportation equity? While there may be varying definitions of the term, in general, transportation equity seeks to ensure that the benefits and...

A Brief History of Bus Networks The bus is the backbone of every transit system in the world, connecting people to jobs, grocery stores and other...

Planners call it scenario planning; modelers call it risk analysis. However you define it, preparing for the future is a risky endeavor full of...

Resilience  With each passing year, we hear more superlatives used to describe the scale of climate-related disasters: largest, biggest, costliest – the...

Federal and state electric vehicle (EV) subsidies are intended to increase access to EVs and EV service equipment (EVSE) through public investment. However,...

The project team was able to use location-based services data and algorithms to design tens of thousands of potential bus networks for the MBTA.

Today, planners use freight forecasting tools to predict freight demand and inform planning and policy decisions. This includes analyzing “disruptor”...