This issue marks my last as editor of the Journal of Public Transportation. I have retired after a 35-year career in public transportation during which I served as the director of Broward County Transit, a mid-size transit agency in southeast Florida, and for the past 24 years as the director of the National Center for Transit Research within the Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida. Retirement usually calls for reflecting on what you accomplished over your career. What I find more interesting to do at this time is to reflect on what the future holds for public transportation. Honestly, the provision of public transportation did not change a great deal during my 35 years as a transit agency director and a university researcher. Yes, advances have been made in alternative fuels, real-time passenger information, more flexible forms of paying fares, the provision of attractive Bus Rapid Transit, the expected implementation of Positive Train Control, the analytics associated with better data, and other things that have helped improve the quality of the service. However, the fundamental form public transportation has taken, in terms of who is providing it and how, has been largely the same since at least the 1970s.

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关于公共交通未来的思考

这个问题标志着我最后一次担任《公共交通杂志》的编辑。在35年的公共交通职业生涯中，我退休了，在此期间，我担任了佛罗里达东南部中型运输机构Broward County Transit的主管，并在过去的24年中担任了国家运输研究中心的主任。在南佛罗里达大学城市交通研究中心内。退休通常需要反思您在职业生涯中取得的成就。我觉得目前比较有趣的是反思公共交通的未来。老实说，在我担任运输署署长和大学研究员的35年间，公共交通的提供并没有发生太大变化。是的，替代燃料，实时乘客信息，更加灵活的票价支付方式，有吸引力的快速公交系统的提供，积极列车控制的预期实施，与更好的数据相关的分析以及其他有助于改善服务质量的因素。但是，至少在1970年代以来，就由谁提供以及如何提供的方式而言，公共交通的基本形式已经基本相同。