Transit Tech Lab

Partnership President & CEO Kathy Wylde was proud to present the inaugural Granville T. Woods Award to NaviLens CEO Javier Pita at the Gala for Friends of the New York Transit Museum. 🏆 An alum of the 2020 Transit Tech Lab, Navilens has since expanded their partnership with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to transform the transit experience for riders who are visually impaired and have limited English proficiency, setting a powerful example of how innovation can drive accessibility. #Accessibility #NYC #TechInThePublicInterest

Eighteen start-ups complete the Transit Tech Lab programme, testing how their solutions could tackle New York's resilience, customer experience, and kerb challenges. 👉 https://lnkd.in/d_h7V7Td New York City Department of Transportation Transit Tech Lab Partnership for New York City #transit #innovation

"New technologies are helping local governments better understand bridge conditions, determine locations for street-side electric vehicle charging and even use robots for small maintenance jobs... The development of proof-of-concept applications could be imagined as more of the beginning of new partnerships among tech firms and the various transit operators in the New York City metro." Read more about the 2024 Proof of Concept Results from Government Technology here: https://lnkd.in/eymmzhr2

📣 The 2024 Proof of Concept Results are in 🎉 Check out the 2024 Final Report which outlines how 18 companies worked in partnership with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NJ TRANSIT, New York City Department of Transportation, and The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to demonstrate how new technologies can solve pressing #resilience, #customerexperience, and #curbactivity challenges: https://lnkd.in/eiZZPZ4y

Great things can happen when the public sector and innovative entrepreneurs get together to tackle important problems. That’s why I’m incredibly excited to share the Partnership Fund's latest public-private initiative: the Buildings Tech Lab in partnership with the NYC Department of Buildings (DOB)!   After working with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to launch the Transit Tech Lab in 2018 and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP) in 2023 to create the Environmental Tech Lab, we’ve kicked off our third public-sector innovation lab to identify innovative solutions from the global tech sector to address complex DOB priorities as it works to ensure the overall safety, compliance, and quality of the city's built environment — made up of over one million buildings. Learn how in our latest blog. ---  Applications for the Buildings Tech Lab are open now through September 20 and there is an information session on August 15th. If you know an emerging company with a compelling solution to one of this year’s challenge areas of Process Management and Data Utilization, please comment below, share, or encourage them to apply directly at buildingstechlab.nyc

We're thrilled to see two Transit Tech Lab alum teaming up to improve transit and keep buses running on time! Congrats Swiftly, Inc. and Remix (acquired by Via) #transitinnovation #transittech

Amazing news! Voltpost is a finalist in the 2024 Innovation by Design Awards by Fast Company. We are so thrilled and proud that our team has been recognized as we progress our mission to democratize charging access. Thank you Jörn for your design leadership and team for making this happen! https://lnkd.in/eN5UgNTR #FCDesignAwards #Impact

24/7/365. No curfew. No days off. Extremely proud of the teams at Metropolitan Transportation Authority and NYC Department of Education for working together to simplify and expand the student transit program as we welcome students to OMNY this fall. Life-changing, big stuff only government can do!