Transit Agencies Need to Increase Technology Investments

Government Technology: America has been and still is a car-oriented society. In the first decade and a half of the 21st century, the share of public transit in urban mobility was less than 2 percent of all passenger miles, according to Jean-Paul Rodrigue, author of The Geography of Transport Systems. Since the 1920s, the use of public transit in urban areas has been in steady, sometimes precipitous, decline. To put it simply, public transit has plenty of room to grow. Fortunately it’s starting to happen.

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