Trillium's Principal, Aaron Antrim, joins the CT Podcast to discuss the evolution of transit scheduling trip planning and mapping technologies. "We work with transit agencies on making their systems easier to navigate," says Antrim of Trillium's goal. In this wide-ranging discussion, Antrim covers such vital topics as the power of multi-modalism, the future of real-time scheduling, the significance of industry-standard data formats and how Trillium's work enables more responsive transit networks. During the podcast, Antrim references a key resource — The Many Uses of GTFS Data: Opening the Door to Transit and Multimodal Applications — that he authored along with CUTR's Sean Barbeau. It can be accessed here. Listen Here: 28:55

AARP recently published an important new resource entitled, "Expanding Specialized Transportation: New Opportunities under the Affordable Care Act." Here, the report's authors — Wendy Fox-Grage and Jana Lynott — discuss what they learned in the year's worth of writing and research on the report, as well as some vital takeaways for community and public transportation operators, leaders and advocates. The podcast covers promising practices and how these new opportunities shape the future of what's come to be known as coordinated transportation. If you'd like to cut through the rhetoric and better understand the real import of the Affordable Care Act for community and public transit, this report and podcast are a great place to start. Listen Here: 22:31

Here, CTAA's Sheryl Gross-Glaser, director of the Partnership for Mobility Management, discusses the implications of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other privacy laws for various types of community and public transit agencies. We reference a recently-released TCRP Legal Research Digest on the topic, and cover additional information on HIPAA in plain English. Gross-Glaser, a lawyer, urges systems to think globally about privacy as well as the reasonable standards and training that all systems should consider. Listen Here: 19:20