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The Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) conducts research, education, and information and technology transfer, focusing on multimodal surface transportation policy and management issues

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MTI researchers found that transit agencies are at a greater risk of cybersecurity threats and are ill-prepared, particularly for smaller agencies.
May 14, 2025
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MTI researchers demonstrate that allocating toll revenues to transit is legal and already benefits communities across the U.S.
May 6, 2025
Sacramento Regional Transit District
SacRT rolls out comprehensive customer survey to enhance rider safety, address street harassment.
To better understand the safety concerns of its riders, SacRT is launching comprehensive customer survey opportunities with incentives.
Oct. 10, 2024
The perspective notes that neglect of the human infrastructure of the U.S. transportation safety systems can have a serious negative impact on the U.S.’s safety, security and ...
Aug. 14, 2024
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AC Transit hires new bus operators on March 13, 2023.
AC Transit’s hiring approach could prove to be a model template for recruitment and retention throughout the transit industry.
July 25, 2024
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The latest MTI perspective reveals public transportation agencies struggle engaging stakeholders.
The perspective highlights strategies for stakeholder engagement that have proven more genuine and effective in achieving critical goals and milestones for transit agencies.
July 11, 2024
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The proposed program would provide a VMT mitigation option for local government agencies and developers, which would improve travel options for the community, with an emphasis...
July 9, 2024
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The latest MTI report, Is There a Light at the End of the Tunnel? The Outlook for Cybersecurity Insurance and Transit in 2024, shows cybersecurity risk is at an all-time high.
The report offers recommendations on cybersecurity risk management to transit providers, insurance companies, as well as the federal government.
April 25, 2024
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Diversity and inclusion in the workforce.
The study provides updated statistics on the status of the racial/ethnic and gender diversity of the transit agency workforce in the U.S. from 2018 – 2022 and identifies potential...
March 15, 2024
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The MTI has released a survey that transit operators can use to collect information from passengers about the extent, location and characteristics of any street harassment they have experienced.
The survey was developed in conjunction with a California law, which requires California’s 10 largest transit operators to document passenger experiences with harassment using...
Dec. 14, 2023

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The study found bus drivers were the most vulnerable to attacks, as assaults have sharply increased over the last decade.
May 13, 2026

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A new MTI perspective explains transit is on an unsustainable path if it tries to solve all of society's larger issues; the perspective's authors encourage a narrower financially sustainable path will propel transit forward while helping support social change.
Mineta Transportation Institute’s latest perspective encourages the transit industry to focus on financial stability as a path toward society change.
Feb. 15, 2023
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In this August 2019 image, a New York City Transit patron taps into the system using a credit/debit card. MTI is urging action to protect PII as more transit systems expand data collection through platforms such as contactless fare systems.
With expanded data collection of personal information of riders and workers, comes the added responsibility of protecting that information against potential breaches.
Dec. 15, 2021
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MTI joins ENSCO, as well as university and research entities to advance railway safety and technology.
Sept. 15, 2021
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MTI researchers found more attacks happened on transit systems during off-peak hours, but peak hours attacks were more lethal.
While 60 percent of passenger attacks within transit systems occur during off peak hours, the peak hour attacks are more lethal.
June 3, 2021

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A Mineta Transportation Institute report shows bombs are terrorist weapons of choice on transportation systems.
The report examines the way bombs were used in 3,836 attacks on passenger trains and train stations, buses, bus stations and stops, passenger ferries and terminals, rail infrastructure...
Nov. 17, 2023
The report, The Economic and Environmental Potential of High-Speed Rail, outlines the potential benefits, which include job growth and increased economic activity.
Oct. 13, 2023
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A new report from MTI aids Caltrans and the state’s transit agencies in assessing transit service equity.
The report aids Caltrans and other transit agencies in assessing transit service equity and helps evaluate potential solutions for past, existing and future inequities.
Sept. 22, 2023
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A new report done by MTI analyzes potential improvements to the transportation planning process through a greater focus on outcomes over projects.
The report was conducted by MTI Research Associate Joshua Schank and shows shifting focus from projects to outcomes benefits the agency, the infrastructure and the community.
Aug. 30, 2023
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A Metro Micro vehicle at L.A. Metro's Artesia station.
On-demand services offered through microtransit options are flexible, improve customer experience and can fill a void left by for profit ride share options.
Oct. 25, 2022
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MTI researchers examine how shifts in telecommuting patterns influence behavior related to transportation, and how this affects land use and emissions.
Sept. 19, 2022
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MTI researchers examine the uses, impacts and potential scalability of the 2020-2022 Oakland Slow Streets program.
Aug. 23, 2022
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The threat of attacks on public surface transportation and staff in the U.S. and other economically advanced countries has changed so significantly over the past 20 years, there...
Aug. 18, 2022
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MTI researchers investigate cybersecurity risks for transit agencies and their vendors, and to identify steps toward increased cyber protection.
July 26, 2022
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MTI researchers analyzed the impacts of social distancing on the accessibility of L.A. Metro’s fixed-route services.
May 18, 2022
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An MTI researcher explores examples of decision makers misusing the label “equity” and even doing more harm than good.
March 30, 2022
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MTI partnered with APTA and AASHTO to release a new a guide for evaluating the ROI for both high-speed and conventional intercity passenger rail corridor projects.
Aug. 31, 2021