Empowering buses to zoom through traffic signals and past cars stalled in traffic may be the magic sauce needed to get riders back on public transit.
“Bus rapid transit is, like, the thing right now,” said Tim Menard, CEO and founder of LYT. “Transit is in a huge renaissance.” His transportation technology company works to integrate priority vehicles like emergency or transit vehicles into a city’s traffic management system.
LYT has worked with cities including Portland, Ore.; San Jose, Calif.; and Boston to give certain vehicles more priority on the roadways than others, using technology to introduce signal priority as cities themselves move forward with projects like dedicated bus lanes…