COVID-19

Electric buses may be a dream vehicle for sustainability watchers, but they are not adding new ridership or saving public transit from the formidable financial headwinds agencies are facing.

A mode shift toward more sustainable transportation like micromobility and transit will take more than an app. It will require a reimagining of cities and how transportation infrastructure is prioritized.

With new state funding available to districts that were disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, schools are upgrading to environmentally efficient heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems.

CARES. ARPA. IIJA. These bills and more have put billions into the state and local government market. We break down the major federal funding packages and how they’re being put to use.

Across the country, health officials have been trying to combat misinformation and restore trust within their communities. Data suggests that the misinformation surrounding COVID-19 vaccines now threatens other public health priorities.

It will take a multi-pronged approach to guide micromobility operations toward a path of viability and profits in the United States, as they navigate a landscape marked by poor infrastructure and costly regulation.

Experts in the ventilation industry say that bringing in air from outside through a filtration system is still the best way to improve air quality in schools, which studies have shown can affect student performance.

Washington, D.C., like many other cities, has seen a rise in remote work since the pandemic began. The lingering trend is prompting new conversations around how transit agencies and their services must change.

Tech-driven counties in California’s Silicon Valley and around Seattle, Wash., and Austin, Texas, boomed as the pandemic raged, according to new economic data released this month by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis.

The annual traffic congestion survey of Texas roadways in 2021 showed a near return to pre-pandemic traffic levels amid strong population growth. Meanwhile, development patterns and transportation systems remain car-focused.

The Transit Tech Lab, an initiative focused on bolstering transit recovery and sustainability, has selected six technology companies to conduct yearlong pilots across the New York City metro region.

A new report by StreetLight Data underscores how traffic patterns across U.S. downtown areas have been reshaped by the pandemic. Remote work and changes in travel preferences offer new challenges for urban planners and transit agencies.

As part of a long-term strategy to mitigate COVID-19, several school districts in Yakima County, Wash., have begun or completed major HVAC upgrades funded by federal ESSER funds, which are available through fall 2024.

Technology and transportation experts weighed in on the autonomous, drone and electrification technologies potentially needed to power the package deliveries of the near and distant future.

Research from top institutions, including the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Stanford University School of Medicine, show that new strains of COVID-19 are showing different symptoms from their predecessors.

A long-simmering issue of worker shortages in public transit became most apparent following the COVID-19 pandemic which saw a high rate of departing workers citing low pay and poor working conditions.

Chief data officers gathering at the Bloomberg CityLab conference in Amsterdam recently looked back on all those data dashboards so quickly built during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

At the State of GovTech 2022 conference in Virginia, investors detail how the industry is growing and changing, how entrepreneurs can make money in the industry and how chances for innovation are still wide open.