Have your riders asked if they could use an online trip planner within your service area? Did you know your agency's schedule could display on smart phones, once you have standardized your data? Thinking about a no-cost trip planner like Google Transit, Bing/Yahoo or Apple Maps but not sure what it takes to create General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) files? 

Learn from local agencies like yourself and their experiences using National RTAP's GTFS Builder. This 45 minute webinar will be a discussion with three local transit agencies that provide fixed route service and have been successful in creating and maintaining GTFS files using GTFS Builder. A 15 minute Q&A session offers you an opportunity to get the answers you need. Register here.

Notice of Availability of Revised Guidance on the Environmental Review Process (comment by May 12, 2015).

Public Transportation Safety Certification Training Program Interim Provisions Webinar  on March 26th (see events list to register) will focus on the information provided in this Federal Register Notice. 

FTA has posted the 2015 random drug and alcohol testing rates in this Federal Register Notice. 

Secretary Foxx has announced the provision of $8.5 million in funding for tribal transportation safety improvements, through the Federal Highway Association (FHWA)'s Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund. The funding will go to 82 tribes and fund 94 projects. 

The US DOT has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to "obtain informed views of the opportunities and challenges to the development, deployment, operation, and use of accessible transportation applications and corresponding infrastructure systems related to the (ATTRI) program."

TRB's Transportation Research Record Journal: Transit 2014, Volume 4 includes articles on intercity bus and other relevant transit topics.

The National Center for Transit Research (NCTR)'s Technology Application Among Florida Community Transportation Coordinators discusses technology in the paratransit field.

Apply for funding in the Healthcare Access Mobility Design Challenge, a Ladders of Opportunity Initiative. Applications are due March 27th, 2015 for projects that will create or improve healthcare-related transit in their communities. 

CTAA's FedCentral provides news updates on federal and state transit policies and regulations. 

Several articles and blogs from Metro Magazine cover how to implement new fare technology, safety concerns when passing other buses (or other vehicles, for that matter), and the potential impact of Uber on transit systems.