The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to give more weight to factors including social and environmental benefits in deciding which local mass-transit initiatives will get federal money.

Public transit systems offering broad coverage of stops and routes may still underserve the communities that rely on them the most, according to a new University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study.

This should be the core mission of any functional public transportation system, ... Mass transportation’s heyday ... “There’s this idea of having a social equity awakening about transit ...

BART, once hailed as pinnacle of mass transit, faces troubled future 04:08. SAN FRANCISCO -- Fifty-one years ago, a brand-new rail transit system opened in the Bay Area, promising to take ...

Hampton Roads Transit, the primary mass transportation system in Hampton Roads, has removed a webpage connected to diversity initiatives with the agency. A spokesperson for the company ...

New or expanded public transportation options can improve health and health equity by reducing traffic crashes and air pollution, increasing physical activity, and improving access to medical care ...

Martinez is the climate justice director at Environmental Health Coalition. She lives in Imperial Beach.After gas prices reached $6 per gallon in May, many of us started considering alternative way… ...

A coalition representing bus drivers, climate justice activists, health advocates and transit users gather to celebrate Transit Equity Day. They're calling for increased access to mass transit ...

The agency hopes the elimination of fares will boost ridership, improve access and support environmental sustainability.

The U.S. Department of Transportation wants to give more weight to factors including affordable-housing policy in deciding which local mass-transit initiatives will get federal money. Skip to content ...