The Metropolitan Transportation Commission's recent pilot shows the value and potential of leveraging targeted, tailored incentives to influence drivers to put down the keys and adopt sustainable modes of travel. The pilot provided a successful blueprint for other agencies considering innovative approaches to traveler behavior change, and its findings support the recent strategic policies published by the Department of Transportation. 1. Introduction The Metropolitan Transpor

Metropia, Inc. is excited to announce that it has been awarded the Regional Multimodal Mobility Program’s (RM3P) Dynamic Incentivization (DI) project that is co-managed by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and the Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT). Metropia will lead a multi-disciplinary consultant team, which includes Kimley Horn, ICF, ArchStreet Communications, Avid-Core, Alta Planning, TransSight, and CommuterLink. "We are honored to have

From 2019 to 2024, the Metropia team was commissioned by Taiwan’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) to initiate Phase One of Taiwan's national Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) API platform. This phase focused on enhancing public transportation and incorporating additional shared mobility options. The Taiwan MaaS API platform offers comprehensive intermodal public transportation travel planning, seamlessly integrating demand-responsive transit services (DRTS), r

Making Cities More Connected and Less Congested In an effort to deploy an innovative solution that optimizes available capacity while managing the demand growth, shifts, and spikes associated with scheduled and unscheduled events, the Texas Department of Transportation Houston District (TxDOT HOU) applied for and received a USDOT FAST Act Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment grant. Metropia and ConnectSmart Collaboration In 2019, Metropia

In an effort to reduce train car overcrowding in the Transbay Tube and throughout the system at large, BART deployed the first test phase of its ambitious FTA-funded Perks program in September 2016.