Photo by Martin Schroeder

APTA President & CEO Michael Melaniphy recently made a presentation on the state of the public transportation industry at DOT’s Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, MA. His topics included the role of APTA in standards development; the interaction between the association’s public transportation agency and business members; and reasons behind the current growth in public transit ridership. He also toured Volpe’s Human Factors Laboratory, where he wore an instrumented headset to record head movement while demonstrating a locomotive operator simulator.