This report provides information on projects funded under Federal Public Transportation Law (49 U.S.C. § 5312). FTA research priorities are safety, mobility innovation, and infrastructure. Projects in these areas promote public transportation innovation to improve operations, infrastructure, and traveler experiences. Projects active in FY 2020 prom
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This report documents the background, implementation, and evaluation of Sound Transit and King County Metro’s Mobility on Demand (MOD) Sandbox Demonstration project, Via to Transit, in the Puget Sound region. As sub-recipients to LA Metro, Sound Transit and King County Metro partnered with private mobility provider Via to test the viability of a pa
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Monthly reports on Arlington RAPID project which integrates a shared, dynamically routed automated vehicle (AV) fleet into an existing public rideshare system in Arlington, Texas.
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) directed this comprehensive study that includes background research and analysis on needs and gaps for voluntary standards or recommended practices for crashworthiness and crash energy management (CEM) for less than 30-ft paratransit body-on-chassis buses (cutaways). It includes case study evaluations for fo
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This research includes an examination of the standards, guidelines, and recommendations associated with crashworthiness and Crash Energy Management (CEM) for transit buses, including articulated buses, BRT buses, and paratransit body-on-chassis buses. Included in this review are standards that exist in the U.S., including Federal Motor Vehicle Safe
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This statutorily required annual report provides information on FTA’s Technical Assistance and Workforce Development Program (49 U.S.C. § 5314). It provides information on technical assistance, workforce development, standards, human resources, and training projects active in FY 2020. The report also includes information on FTA’s process for making
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This paper explores the integration of trip payments between public transit systems and shared mobility services. It begins with a look at fare payment systems, fare types and fare technology. Examples are provided of recent implementation of payment integration using (1) card-based systems (Montréal, Seattle, Los Angeles); and (2) account-based sy
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The Mobility on Demand (MOD) Limited Access Connections (LAC) project provides recommendations and lessons learned to help agencies, organizations, and policymakers establish a first/last mile pilot project, identify a research and design framework for first/last mile service, and develop criteria for the identification of pilot zones to implement
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T his report provides an update on projects selected pursuant to three FTA Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs) (81 FR 17549, 83 FR 46534, and 84 FR 58819) for Section 3006(b) of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST), Public Law 114-94, Pilot Program for Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility (ICAM Pilot Program). The primary
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This report evaluates the Valley Metro Mobility Platform project, part of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Mobility on Demand (MOD) Sandbox program. Valley Metro currently provides a Valley Metro RidekickTM mobile application for its users that features tripplanning for light rail and buses. The Mobility Platform project aimed to develop ne
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Nationwide, rural communities and their roadways are disproportionately affected by road safety issues. Multiple complex factors contribute to transportation-related fatalities and injuries on rural roadways, including their infrastructure (sharp curves, steep grades, limited sight distances, sharp pavement drop-offs) and unique environments (slow-
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This document is an addendum to the final report to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) covering the project performance and results on the development, build, and demonstration of a next generation Proterra fuel cell hybrid bus. The bus was built using two Hydrogenics HD30 fuel cells and was demonstrated by Capital Metro in Austin, Texas. A s
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The Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) partnered with the University of Texas Center for Electromechanics (UT-CEM), Utah Transit Authority (UTA), Mobile Climate Control, and Transworld Associates to develop a system that will electrify the auxiliary loadsof a paratransit vehicle to improve efficiency and passenger comfort by elimin
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The Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) led a team from AC Transit in the extended monitoring of 13 Fuel Cell Electric Buses (FCEBs) as a part of the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) National Fuel Cell Bus Program (NFCBP), working with AC Transit, UTC Power, EnerDel, Van Hool, Siemens Industries, and Dynetek Industries in this
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FTA has conducted research on conceptual ideas, prototypes, and commercially available products related to automated vehicle technologies for transit bus operations. The emerging automated transit bus market has received enthusiastic media coverage, but stakeholders may not clearly understand the difference between conceptual ideas, prototype syste
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This report evaluates the TriMet OpenTripPlanner (OTP) project, part of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) MOD Sandbox Program. The TriMet OTP project was designed to enhance the existing TriMet trip planner to include shared-use mobility (SUM) options, real-time information on transit vehicle arrivals, pedestrian routing in consideration of
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This Report presents summary findings form the 2019 ITS JPO Connected Vehicle (CV) and Automated Vehicle (AV) Survey. The survey was administered online to freeway, arterial and transit agencies from 78 large metropolitan areas and 30 medium size cities (the same survey population as previous Deployment Tracking Surveys). Online data collection ran
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This Safety Research Demonstration (SRD) Interim Report provides the status of seven 2016 SRD projects selected to address the thematic areas of collision avoidance and mitigation and transit worker safety protections. It illustrates the process CUTR will use to perform the project and national-level program assessments. CUTR will present final ass
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The Mobility on Demand (MOD) Fair Value Commuting (FVC) project provides recommendations and lessons learned to help agencies, organizations, and policymakers reduce single-occupancy vehicle (SOV) commuting behavior and engage with stakeholders on systemic obstacles related to transportation choices. FVC can be used by any stakeholder wanting to un
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