In June 2023, and the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (CapMetro) was awarded $949,500 through the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) for Transit Buses Demonstration and Automated Transit Bus Maintenance and Yard Operations Demonstration Program, for the CapMetro ADS Yard Automation Researc
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In June 2023, and the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority (CapMetro) was awarded $949,500 through the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) for Transit Buses Demonstration and Automated Transit Bus Maintenance and Yard Operations Demonstration Program, for the CapMetro ADS Yard Automation Researc
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This data set contains automated test cases, results, and test engineer comments, event summaries which explain in detail the root cause of events which occurred during testing, capacity analysis simulations which show the navigation of buses in a newly organized automated yard, and a job impact calculator showing the impact of automation on existi
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Transit Administration. Office of Research, Demonstration and Innovation
2025-01-01
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This statutorily required annual report provides information on FTAʼs Technical Assistance and Workforce Development Program (49 U.S.C. § 5314). It includes information on technical assistance, standards development, training, human resources, and workforce development projects active in FY 2024. The report concludes with information on FTAʼs proce
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The Transit Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Estimator (Estimator) is a Microsoft Excel-based spreadsheet tool that allows users to estimate the partial lifecycle GHG emissions generated and energy used during the construction, operation, and maintenance phases of a project across select transit modes. Users input general information about a project,
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The Transit Bus Electrification Tool is a Microsoft Excel-based spreadsheet tool that allows users to estimate the partial lifecycle greenhouse gas emission savings associated with replacing standard bus fleets with low-emission or zero-emission transit buses.
The purpose of this document is to identify and resolve human factors issues as part of the design and evaluation of flight deck displays and controls for all types of aircraft (Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) parts 23, 25, 27, and 29), in the interest of improving aviation safety. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) provides h
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The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) developed the Transit Resilience Guidebook to support transit agencies, local government officials, metropolitan planning organizations, and other entities responsible for operating, funding, or coordinating on public transportation in their efforts to anticipate, adapt to, and recover from service disruptio
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On September 1, 2020, the City of Wilson, North Carolina, with support from the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) through an Accelerating Innovative Mobility (AIM) FY20 award, replaced its existing fixed route transit system with an on-demand microtransit service called RIDE. Wilson partnered with mobility solutions provider Via T
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The primary objective of this project was to identify the best practices for procuring and maintaining battery electric buses (BEB) and charging systems to help in U.S. Department of Transportation efforts to support the transition of the nation's transportation systems to electric vehicles and other zero-carbon technologies. The research outcomes
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Recently, bus transit agencies nationwide have slowly shifted from reducing their carbon footprints through alternative fuel vehicles to eliminating their carbon emissions by adopting battery electric fleets. This push is supported by FTA's commitment to reducing carbon emissions from transit vehicles, infrastructure, and construction through their
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A s part of FTA’s effort to promote continuous safety and operational improvements in the public transit industry, Guidebook for Deploying Battery Electric Buses was developed to provide bus transit agencies with leading transit industry practices for performing these activities. The supporting research report, Procuring and Maintaining Battery Ele
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I n 2021, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) awarded the Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District (MetroLINK) a grant to develop a cybersecurity assessment tool to assess its cyber posture as part of FTA’s Public Transportation COVID-19 Research Demonstration Grant Program. The Cybersecurity Assessment Tool for Transit (CATT) and
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In partnership with the Federal Transit Administration, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Arizona State University, and Dunbar Transportation Consulting, LLC, identified a set of replicable measures that public transportation providers and their partners can use to advance equity for those who have been historically underserved, mar
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The University of Delaware’s Fuel Cell Transit Vehicle Program was initiated in September 2005 and ended in November 2022. The Program consortium was led by the University of Delaware and included the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Ballard Inc., Ebus, Air Liquide, and Delaware Transit Corporation. The primary goal of the Program was to r
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This report summarizes findings from a project to design, build, and test a prototype LRV end enclosure, or bumper, as a retrofit to an existing LRV operated in the U.S. to reduce (1) potential for injury to automobile occupants, (2) damage to the LRV, and (3) costs to operators from crashes. The retrofit bumper design process consisted of geometri
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As new technologies, such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving systems (ADS) are introduced into transit operations, the tasks required of the operator will change. This research effort sought to understand if a low-cost training tool could be developed to maintain/improve safety as transit agencies pilot test these te
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This report provides a primer on location-based service (LBS) data and its uses in public transportation. It defines LBS data, describes the techniques for collecting and processing the data, and the key parties involved. The report highlights opportunities, limitations, and potential risks of using LBS data, based on the literature and interviews
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On September 1, 2020, the City of Wilson, North Carolina, with support from the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) through an Accelerating Innovative Mobility (AIM) FY20 award, replaced its existing fixed route transit system with an on-demand microtransit service called RIDE. Wilson partnered with mobility solutions provider Via T
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This report presents the results of the Arlington Rideshare, Automation, and Payment Integration Demonstration (RAPID) project. This project integrates a shared, dynamically routed automated vehicle (AV) fleet into an existing public rideshare system in Arlington, Texas.
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