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How to Avoid “Ghost Buses” and Other Pitfalls of Using Real-time Bus Data
“Ghost buses” are buses that are displayed on real-time bus arrival apps, but never show up. This can happen when a scheduled bus is taken out of service...
Streamlining HART’s Emergency Communications during Hurricane Ian with the OneBusAway Platform
In mid-September, during a regular meeting between the CS Software team and the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART), the team asked if it...
CS Tapped to Lead New Mobility-as-a-Service Project in Minnesota
Cambridge Systematics (CS) has recently been selected as lead technology partner for an exciting effort to bring Mobility-as-a-Service to Minnesota.
SRTA is Improving Its Capital Planning Process with the Capital Planning Tool (CPT)
Learn how SRTA is reducing silos, improving analytics & reporting, and gaining a holistic vision of their capital planning processes with CS’ Capital...
Perceiving and Bypassing Project Proposal Pitfalls
Anyone can write a project proposal. But writing a winning proposal can be fraught with peril; a poorly composed proposal can cause confusion,...
CS Software Supports the Mobility Data Interoperability Principles
CS is excited to support the Mobility Data Interoperability Principles as a co-signatory! At CS, we firmly believe that open data and interoperability...
Trip Planning with Demand Responsive Transit: Part 2 Integration and Eligibility Tradeoffs
In a previous post, we covered the basics of how we approach demand response trip planning at CS, and raised some issues about decisions and tradeoffs...
TRB Conference on Advancing Transportation Equity (CATE) to Feature CS’ Dr. Paul Sorensen
At this year’s virtual Conference on Advancing Transportation Equity, Cambridge Systematics’ (CS) Dr. Paul Sorensen will join the technical session,...
Trip Planning with Demand Responsive Transit: Part 1 Foundations
Long familiar to paratransit and rural riders, demand response transit options have become more common in recent years as transit agencies have...
Building a TransAM Community
Through TransAM, our top priority is to help transportation agencies effectively address the challenges of asset performance management. In fact, many...
COVID-19 & Transit: Technological Innovations in Social Distancing
Do you take transit? Work in transit? If you answer yes to either, your experience is jarring: Transit has been turned upside down. News headlines have...