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7 major themes and takeaways from APTA’s 2017 Annual Meeting and EXPO
October 18, 2017Photo: Business Wire While public transportation agencies across the country sent their best and brightest to Atlanta, the weather failed to get the memo. And yet, despite torrential downpours and ...
Your TransLoc APTA 2017 Survival Guide
October 5, 2017In just a few days, transit industry folks from across the country will converge on Atlanta for this year’s APTA EXPO*. Between the EXPO floor (with over 800 exhibitors from across the globe), pr...
Mobile App Architecture at TransLoc
September 26, 2017When TransLoc’s mobile engineering team set out to build the Microtransit apps for iOS and Android, our top priority was to build them in such a way that we could iterate at a sustainable pace fo...
How to make your summer internship a success
July 10, 2017Advice from TransLoc’s Director of Strategy and Partnerships on how to make the most of your summer internship. This week, TransLoc’s interns started work. Each year, TransLoc hires a handful o...
Transit: The secret weapon to bridge the gap between the haves and have-nots
July 10, 2017By Doug Kaufman We’ve heard and read the stories of the horrific commutes many endure to get to and from their jobs: Jourdan Duncan, the teenager in Northern California who walked for hours each ...
Three important lessons learned from Bridj’s closure
May 10, 2017Last week, Bridj made news by shutting its doors. By collecting and using data to create a more demand-driven transit world, Bridj tried to create a “network of express shuttles that offer effici...
TransLoc stands with Glassdoor for wage equality
April 4, 2017In the U.S., women earn about 76 cents per dollar earned by men on average, but the causes of the gender pay gap are a bit more complicated. Here at TransLoc we are committed to doing our part to c...
The intersection of transit and diversity
March 31, 2017Earlier this month, I chaperoned my daughter’s third-grade class on a walking and public transit field trip to explore economic development in downtown Durham. As a working parent, I don’t ge...
3 reasons public transit agencies should care about sustainability
February 15, 2017Back in April 2016, we published a post explaining how public transit impacts sustainability, but what about the other end of that question: Why should transit agencies aim for sustainable practice...
Release Notes: What’s new in Architect Beta 1.2
January 20, 2017We’re constantly updating our products at TransLoc. Sometimes we’re adding new features or functionality. Sometimes we’re fixing bugs. But always, we’re striving to make our products more v...
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