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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 g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas, Texas
Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County with portions extending into Collin, Denton, Kaufman and Rockwall counties. With a 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the ninth most-populous city in the U.S. and the third-largest 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 United States and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea. The cities of Dallas and nearby Fort Worth were initially developed due to the construction of major railroad lines through the area allowing access to cotton, cattle and later oil in North and East Texas. The construction of the Interstate Highway System reinforced Dallas's prominen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antelope Valley Transit Authority
Antelope Valley Transit Authority is the transit agency serving the cities of Palmdale, Lancaster and Northern Los Angeles County. Antelope Valley Transit Authority is operated under contract by MV Transportation, and is affiliated with and offers connecting services with Metro and Metrolink. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Services As of 2020, AVTA operates a fleet of 88 buses, 58 buses dedicated to local service and 30 to commuter service. AVTA runs: *15 local bus routes -Route 1: The Boulevard Transit Center/South Valley Transit Center -Route 2: AV Mall/Marketplace Dr -Route 3: Avenue S & 37th Street/South Valley Transit Center -Route 4: Ferne Ave/ Owen Memorial Park -Route 5: 60th Street/ Owen Memorial Park -Route 7: Rancho Vista Blvd/ Avenida Vista Verde -Route 8: Antelope Valley College/ Palmdale Metrolink -Route 9: Owen Memorial Park/ Quartz Hill High School -Route 11: 20th St. / Lancaster Blvd -Route 12: 15th Street/Owen Memori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairfax Connector
Fairfax Connector is a public bus service provided by Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, and is managed by the county government. The bus system provides service within Fairfax County, and connects to Metrobus, Metrorail stations, Virginia Railway Express, and other local bus systems. Fairfax Connector serves all of Fairfax Metrorail Stations, the city of Alexandria, the city of Fairfax (weekday middays only), the Washington Dulles International Airport, and the Pentagon Metrorail station (weekdays only, mostly during morning and evening peak periods). In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Fairfax Connector, or simply "The Connector", is operated under contract by Transdev, and is the third largest bus fleet in the D.C. area. The Connector provides a fixed-route bus service within Fairfax County on 93 routes and carries about nine million passengers annually. The Connector's goals is to supplement the regional rail and bus service provided by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emery Go-Round
Emery Go-Round is a fare-free public bus system in Emeryville, California. It also provides service to small portions of the adjacent cities of Oakland and Berkeley Berkeley most often refers to: *Berkeley, California, a city in the United States **University of California, Berkeley, a public university in Berkeley, California * George Berkeley (1685–1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher Berkeley may also refer .... Service is funded primarily by commercial property owners through a citywide transportation business improvement district. Routes Emery Go-Round operates four fixed routes. Service operates daily with 15 minute frequency, except selected holidays, with reduced service levels on weekends and selected additional holidays. All routes begin and end at MacArthur BART Station in Oakland. External linksOfficial website References Bus transportation in California Public transportation in Alameda County, California Zero-fare transport services Emeryville, Californ ... [...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 Government of Detroit, city government, with headquarters in Midtown Detroit, Midtown. Primarily serving Detroit and its enclaves, DDOT is supplemented by suburban service from the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART). It is the largest transit agency in Michigan, with a ridership of in 2021. 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 str ... [...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. It was rebranded under the consolidated GoTransit branding scheme for the Research Triangle region. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . History The City of Durham assumed the operation of the local Duke Power bus system in 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 In June 2011, DATA, along with GoTriangle began to redesign all of DATA's existing routes. This was due to various issues such as traffic congestion, dangerous bus stop placement, low ridership, decreased on-time performance, and customer location needs. By June 2012, the final plan was d ... [...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. AC Transit also operates bus service across the Dumbarton Bridge on Route U, which connects Fremont BART and Stanford University. Route U is not part of the Dumbarton Express system. Service area Dumbarton Express serves the cities of Menlo Park, Newark, Palo Alto, and Union City. Hubs Service is provided to two major transit hubs: Palo Alto station (connections to Caltrain, SamTrans, VTA) and Union City station (connections to AC Transit, BART and Union City Transit). Both lines additionally serve Ardenwood Park & Ride. Routes As of December 12, 2012, Dumba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Small Southern California Transit Agencies
Many transit agencies serve Southern California. They range from large organizations serving thousands of people to one-route services provided by local cities. The majority of these agencies mainly serve localized areas of Los Angeles County. In many cases, some agencies bus routes overlap in the same area with other bus agencies. Alhambra Community Transit The city of Alhambra operates two transit routes with the ACT system. The Green Line runs as a city loop, with Valley Blvd and Main St as the key arteries of travel. This route runs six days per week in both a clockwise and counterclockwise direction. The Blue Line runs on weekdays from the Alhambra Civic Center to California State University, Los Angeles and the Cal State MetroLink Station. Antelope Valley Transit Authority Antelope Valley Transit Authority is the local transit agency serving the cities of Palmdale, Lancaster and Northern Los Angeles. It also provides commuter express service between the Antelope Vall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Santa Clarita Transit
City of Santa Clarita Transit is a local bus service, administered by the City's transit division, that serves the City of Santa Clarita, California and nearby surrounding unincorporated areas. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Daily operations and maintenance of the fleet are under contract with MV Transportation. City of Santa Clarita Transit routes connect with services operated by Metro and Metrolink. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Works pays City of Santa Clarita Transit to provide fixed route and Dial-A-Ride services in some unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County that are near the city limits of Santa Clarita. These areas include the communities of Castaic, Stevenson Ranch, Sunset Pointe and Val Verde. History The City of Santa Clarita assumed responsibility for local transit in 1991 from Los Angeles County, which had developed an embryonic transit network. A small City staff provides supervision over a contract operato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority
Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority (CCRTA) operates a bus transit system of fixed and flexible routes, seasonal rail service to Boston, and a paratransit service in the Cape Cod region of Massachusetts. The CCRTA was created under the provisions of Chapter 161B of the Massachusetts General Laws in 1976. Its main hub and base of operations is the Hyannis Transportation Center on Main Street in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Scheduled route service (called ''The Breeze'' until early 2008) consists of seven year-round lines covering every town on mainland Cape Cod. During the summer months (late June through early September) service runs seven days a week from approximately 5:30 am until midnight, and is complemented by local shuttles in downtown Hyannis, Provincetown, and Woods Hole. Service is somewhat reduced in the shoulder season (Memorial Day to late June and Labor Day to Columbus Day) and is limited in the off season when four of the eight routes do not run and the remainder only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CalTrain
Caltrain (reporting mark JPBX) is a California commuter rail line serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley). The southern terminus is in San Jose at Tamien station with weekday rush hour service running as far as Gilroy. The northern terminus of the line is in San Francisco at 4th and King Streets. Caltrain has 28 regular stops, one limited-service weekday-only stop ( College Park), one weekend-only stop (Broadway), and one football-only stop (Stanford). While average weekday ridership in 2019 exceeded 63,000, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been significant: in August 2022, Caltrain had an average weekday ridership of 18,600 passengers. Caltrain is governed by the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board (PCJPB) which consists of agencies from the three counties served by Caltrain: Santa Clara, San Francisco, and San Mateo. Each member agency has three representatives on a nine-member Board of Directors. The member agencies are the Santa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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