The program includes about 1,400 bikes positioned at 90 stations. The account-based platform allows riders to move effortlessly from one transit system to another across Los Angeles County, and also now includes interoperability with Metro Bike Share, a new app-based bike rental system in downtown Los Angeles, the Port of L.A. Los Angeles Metro has overhauled it Transit Access Pass (TAP) card, now known as TAPforce. “The new BART Trip Planner is one of the first big steps into ‘Mobility-as-a-Service’ in the United States.” transit agencies to provide complete end-to-end itineraries,” said Michael Frankenberg, HaCon CEO, in a statement. 'With its forward-thinking approach to offering multimodal travel chains, BART is one of the first U.S. Still, officials with HaCon praised the initiative taken by BART to integrate other public transit modes into its platform. “At this point there’s no specific time frame for when transportation modes such as ride- and bike-sharing will be incorporated into the trip planner,” said Filippi. Working bike-, car- and scooter-sharing platforms into the BART trip-planning app is certainly on the horizon, say officials, though when this will happen is still an open question. “So, I think the American people view us as being the backbone of the future.” So, the American people are voting with both their sentiment, but also voting for ballot initiatives to increase funding for public transportation,” Grisby told Government Technology in a recent interview. And that includes current and future technologies like Uber and Lyft, bike-share, car-share programs.

“Most Americans - in fact nearly 80 percent - view public transit as the backbone. Transit agencies, like BART, ought to lead the conversation around multimodal travel, trip-planning, and ultimately - payment, said Darnell Grisby, director of Policy and Research Development with the American Public Transportation Association.

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