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Spare Partners with Metropolitan Council to Transform Microtransit in the Twin Cities

Spare is partnering with Metropolitan Council to elevate microtransit services in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. For context, Metropolitan Council is a major player in public transit, ranking as the second-largest provider in the U.S. for demand-response miles covered. They’re crucial to keeping the region connected and ensuring that transit is accessible to those who need it most.

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4 Things Transit Agencies Should Automate Today with Workflows

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Why I’m Joining Spare and What Comes Next

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Thriving in Growth: Spare is Hiring Remotely!

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Transit Equity and Indigenous Peoples: A Call for Action on National Indigenous Peoples Day

The path to get on-demand services in mobility apps: GTFS-Flex & the help of Spare GTFS-Flex Builder

Spare's 2024 Spring Hackathon: Steps Toward Transforming Mobility

Press Release: Spare Introduces AI Voice, Enhancing Transit Customer Service with an 85% Reduction in Wait Times

Q&A with Kim Rankine on Her Journey as a PSTA Rider and Paratransit Advocate

Unveiling Spare’s Guiding Principles: Customer Obsession

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Truckee's approach to Commingled Services for Accessible Transportation in California

Unveiling Spare’s Guiding Principles: No Assholes

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Introducing Concho Valley Transit: Bridging Gaps Across Rural and Urban Texas

Unveiling Spare’s Guiding Principles: Drive Results

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ABQ Ride Connect Offers Free Rides and Enhances Transportation Accessibility for Underserved Communities in New Mexico

Unveiling Spare’s Guiding Principles: Growth Mindset

How to Design Your Paratransit and Microtransit Service Zone

Unveiling Spare's Guiding Principles: Taking Ownership

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GATRA upgrades legacy paratransit system of 30 years by expanding services with Spare

Unwrapping the Gift of Time: Spare’s Holiday Hibernation

A Closer Look into the Co-op Experience at Spare

A Recap of Spare's 2023 Fall Hackathon

Driving Change with 623% Growth, Spare Ranks Among Canada's Fastest Growing Companies

4 Sustainable Ways to Control Costs using Spare Open Fleets

Driven to Change: How Car Users are Making the Most of DRT

Press Release: One of the World's Largest Automated ADA Paratransit Systems Successfully Launched by CapMetro & Spare

Dispatchers: The Unsung Heroes of Paratransit and Microtransit Operations

2023 Q3 Engagement Survey Results

Q3 Product Updates: A closer look at our new & upcoming releases

From Traditional to On-Demand: GATRA's Evolution in Transit

Open Fleets: The 'Plug & Play' Solution for Seamless Transit Integration

Press Release: Spare's Innovative Open Fleets Set for Expansion Amidst Significant Growth

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How to Leverage Technology to Offer Same-Day Paratransit Services

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Spare's Unique Approach to Innovation: Customer-Centric Hackathons

Press Release: Spare Partners With PSTA to Expand Innovative Same-Day Paratransit Services

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The ABCs of working at Spare

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How universities are increasing student safety with on-demand services

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Meet the 2022 Co-op Students

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The future of Safe Rides and campus shuttles

How to use your website to market your mobility service

What is a mobility service rider persona and why is it important?

How to grow microtransit ridership with traditional transit marketing channels

Transit Planning

Income and on-demand transit: Diversity data gap

Transit Planning

Income and on-demand transit: Modal split

10 transit and mobility services that illustrate effective branding

How to Customize Your Paratransit and Microtransit Services

How to Optimize Your Paratransit and Microtransit Fleet

What is paratransit and why is it important?

Building a visual identity for your on-demand mobility service

Inside Engineering at Spare

Transit Planning

Transit planning decoded

Transit Planning

Spare Interview: Spare’s Lead Data Scientist on the power of data-driven transit planning

Transit Planning

How to use mobility data to plan effective transit networks

Transit Planning

How simulations and prototypes benefit your transit planning

How to Manage Conditional Paratransit Eligibility

How to scale a microtransit pilot

Spare heads to Florida to automate PSTA's ADA paratransit

Five ways to pilot a microtransit service

Rural communities in the Baltics to benefit from Spare’s on-demand transport planning tools

Why flexible transportation is key to getting high-risk individuals vaccinated against COVID-19

Closing the loop: How microtransit addresses the first-and-last-mile transportation problem

Transit Planning

The diversity data gap in on-demand microtransit

What is Microtransit? Bringing Greater Equity to Public Transit

Spare launches its first microtransit operation in Germany

Transit Planning

On-demand microtransit is reshaping the modal split

Spare expands its microtransit operations in Japan with services in Shiojiri and Noshiro

Spare Launches On-Demand Microtransit in Ohio

Transit Planning

Microtransit, pandemic and protests: A story of resilience

Transit Planning

The power of Realize: A simulation tool that redefines transit planning

Transit Planning

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Transit Planning

Flipping Transit on Its Head: Part II

Transit Planning

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Transit Planning

The Future that Never Happened

Transit Planning

The problem with cancellations, and how data science can help

Spare expands in Eden Prairie with new NEMT service, Prime MD

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