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MV Transportation
MV Transportation, Inc., based in Dallas, Texas, is the largest privately owned passenger transportation contracting services firm in the United States. The company can provide paratransit, fixed-route, campus and corporate shuttles, and student transportation services, partnering with over 200 city and county government transit agencies, school districts, universities, and corporations. MV serves over 110 million passengers each year across 30 states and Canada with a team of more than 20,000 transit professionals. History MV Transportation, Inc. was founded in 1975 in San Francisco, California, by Alex and Feysan Lodde, who continue to own the company. The Loddes realized the limited transportation options for the elderly and people with disabilities and began providing transportation services throughout the city. By 1990, the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, mandating comparable transportation for passengers with disabilities. Since that time MV has grown, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas
Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the most populous city in and the county seat, seat of Dallas County, Texas, Dallas County, covering nearly 386 square miles into Collin County, Texas, Collin, Denton County, Texas, Denton, Kaufman County, Texas, Kaufman, and Rockwall County, Texas, Rockwall counties. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the List of United States cities by population, ninth-most populous city in the U.S. and the List of cities in Texas by population, third-most populous city in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CalTrain
Caltrain (reporting mark JPBX) is a commuter rail line in California, serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley). The southern terminus is in San Jose, California, San Jose at the Tamien station with weekday rush hour service running as far as Gilroy, California, Gilroy. The northern terminus of the line is in San Francisco at San Francisco 4th and King Street station, 4th and King Street. Caltrain has express, limited, and local services. There are 28 regular stops, one limited-service weekday-only stop (College Park station (Caltrain), College Park), one weekend and holiday-only stop (Broadway station (Caltrain), Broadway), and one stop that is only served on American football, football game days (Stanford station, Stanford). While average weekday ridership in 2019 exceeded 63,000, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been significant: in June 2024, Caltrain had an average weekday ridership of 24,580 passengers. Caltrain is governed by the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GoCary
GoCary is the public transportation provider in Cary, a community in the Research Triangle urbanized area in North Carolina. While the city of Raleigh provides service to most of the county via GoRaleigh, Cary opted to retain its own town-owned system. Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, and Wake Forest, the five cities that constitute the region, are connected by GoTriangle. Fixed-route service operates Monday through Saturday from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sundays from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. As part of the GoTransit branding initiative for the Triangle, GoCary changed its name from Cary Transit or C-Tran on October 1, 2016. Services GoCary GoCary's fixed-route bus service consists of nine routes: Most routes terminate downtown on Hillsboro Street beside the train station where connections can also be made with GoTriangle's 300, 301, and 310 routes. They also run an express route connecting Apex and Cary. All fixed route buses are equipped with wheelchair lifts, bike racks, GPS, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glendale Beeline
Glendale Beeline is the municipal bus and paratransit service which serves the city of Glendale, California, United States. It provides service in Glendale, as well as parts of nearby Burbank, La Cañada Flintridge and La Crescenta-Montrose. The service complements the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Metro Local routes along with Metro Express route 501, which connect Glendale to other parts of Los Angeles County. History The Glendale Beeline was launched in December 1984, and was Glendale's first municipal bus system since Glendale City Lines was overtaken by Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority in 1964. In 2009, a compressed natural gas filling station opened at the Glendale Transportation Center. In December 2013, Glendale Beeline became the first public transit agency in Los Angeles County to operate with all low-floor buses. In 2016, the City's Transportation and Parking Commission agreed on a plan to construct an administration building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fresno Area Express
Fresno Area Express (FAX) is a public transportation operator in Fresno, California. The system had over 100 buses, 1,606 bus stops, and 18 routes as of August 2022. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . FAX fixed routes run as far south as Malaga to Valley Children's Hospital in the north. Lines also run as far east as Fowler Avenue in Clovis, and as far west as Hayes Avenue near Highway 99 in western Fresno. FAX has paratransit operations called Handy Ride, operated by a private contractor. FAX offers free transfers as well as wheelchair lifts and bike racks on all buses. History The public transportation system in Fresno started in January 1889 with horse-drawn streetcars. By 1901, lines had been established on Fulton, Fresno, and Mariposa Streets, which merged into the Fresno City Railway Company. The company was renamed the Fresno Traction Company in 1903 as employees began the process of converting the lines to electric streetcars. These ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foothill Transit
Foothill Transit is a public transit agency that is government funded by 22 member cities in the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys. It operates a fixed-route bus public transit service in the San Gabriel Valley region of eastern Los Angeles County, California, United States, as well as a rapid bus route to and from downtown Los Angeles from the El Monte Busway, and a few of its local routes reach the far northern and western edge cities of neighboring Orange and San Bernardino counties, respectively. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Overview Foothill Transit operates out of two yards: one in Pomona (opened in 1997), and the other in Arcadia (opened in 2002); the administrative offices moved to West Covina in 2007. The Foothill Transit joint powers authority membership consists of elected representatives from 22 member cities in the San Gabriel Valley and Pomona Valley and three members appointed from the Los Angeles County Board of Superv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emery Go-Round
Emery Go-Round is a fare-free public bus system serving Emeryville, California, a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Service is funded primarily by commercial property owners through a citywide transportation business improvement district. The name, a play on the term merry-go-round, is a reference to both Emeryville founder Joseph Stickney Emery and the bus routes, which are loops beginning and ending at MacArthur BART Station in the adjacent city of Oakland. Services As of 2024, Emery Go-Round operates two fixed routes: Shellmound-Powell and Hollis. Service operates daily with 15-minute frequency, except on selected holidays, with reduced service levels on weekends and selected additional holidays. Both routes are loops, beginning and ending at MacArthur BART Station in Oakland. The Shellmound-Powell route runs concurrently with AC Transit AC Transit is the main Public transport bus service, bus transit operator in the East Bay region of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E-tran
e-tran was the public transit system for the city of Elk Grove, California and parts of south Sacramento. Public transit in these areas was operated by Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) until 2005, when E-tran began operation under the City of Elk Grove, with bus operations contracted to MV Transportation; subsequently, SacRT took up the contract to operate E-tran in 2019 and then re-annexed E-tran in 2021. History SacRT provided local public transit service in Elk Grove until 2005. In 2003, the City evaluated the current contract with SacRT, which would expire in June 2004, and decided to operate its own public transit system, creating E-tran. E-tran began service on January 2, 2005 under a contractual service agreement with MV Transportation. In 2007, it was named as an "Outstanding Public Transportation System" by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). APTA lauded the agency's deployment of the "better bus", fitted with high-back reclining seats, pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detroit Department Of Transportation
The Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) (pronounced ) is the primary public transportation operator serving Detroit, Michigan. In existence since 1922, DDOT is a division of the city government, headed by a director appointed by the mayor. Primarily serving Detroit and its enclaves, DDOT is supplemented by suburban service from the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART). In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . History Department of Street Railways The DDOT began its life as the Department of Street Railways (DSR) in 1922 after the municipalization of the privately-owned Detroit United Railway (DUR), which had controlled much of Detroit's mass transit operations since its incorporation in 1901. The DSR added bus service when it created the Motorbus Division in 1925. At the height of its operation in 1941, the DSR operated 20 streetcar lines with 910 streetcars. By 1952, only four streetcar lines remained: Woodward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durham Area Transit Authority
GoDurham, formerly Durham Area Transit Authority (DATA), is the public transit system serving Durham, North Carolina, Durham, North Carolina. It is currently operated by RATP Dev, managed by GoTriangle, and funded by the City of Durham. It was renamed under the consolidated GoTransit (North Carolina), GoTransit branding scheme for the Research Triangle region. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . History Early years The City of Durham assumed the operation of the local Duke Power bus system in January 1991, naming it Durham Area Transit Authority (DATA). * 1891–1902 – Durham Street Railway Co. * 1902–1913 – Durham Traction Co. * 1913–1921 – Durham Traction Co. (Cities Service Co.) * 1921–1943 – Durham Public Service Co. (Cities Service Co.) * 1930 – streetcars discontinued * After 1943 – Duke Power Company 2000s & 2010s DATA Upgrades To benefit riders and to replace aging equipment, DATA purchased 31 new Gillig Low Floor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumbarton Express
Dumbarton Express is a regional public transit service in the San Francisco Bay Area connecting Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties via the Dumbarton Bridge, the system's namesake. The bus service is funded by a consortium of five transit agencies (AC Transit, BART, SamTrans, Union City Transit, and VTA). Dumbarton Express is administered by AC Transit and operated under contract by MV Transportation. Service Dumbarton Express operates two weekday-only routes: *Route DB operates between Union City station and the Stanford University campus via Palo Alto station *Route DB1 operates between Union City station and the Stanford Research Park Dumbarton Express allows passengers to ride locally in the East Bay and Peninsula, without crossing the bridge. History AC Transit began operating peak-hour service between Union City station and Palo Alto station on September 10, 1984. The yearlong trial service was funded by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. The DB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
