Transit Planning & Operations
Plan better transit. Improve service reliability. Grow ridership.
Understand the travel demand surrounding your transit network with Origin-Destination data, multimodal travel patterns, and real-time traffic insights to see how roadway conditions affect service. StreetLight helps transit agencies make better transit planning decisions, connect more trips to transit, and improve transit reliability and operations as conditions change.
See beyond your transit network with historical travel demand patterns and real-time roadway intelligence for all roads
Get a broader view of mobility. Complement your ridership and service data with insights into where demand exists, how people are traveling, and how roadway conditions are affecting service performance.
See where trips begin and end, which routes travelers use, and how driving, walking, and biking patterns add a broader view of travel demand to your agency’s existing data.
Understand how congestion, construction, incidents, and other roadway conditions contribute to transit delays and recurring reliability challenges.
Stay ahead of disruptions with real-time traffic insights. Compare conditions before, during, and after changes to improve service.
Turn travel demand and real-time traffic data into smarter transit decisions
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How Houston METRO protects transit reliability before, during, and after a $14B Highway Project
Watch VideoWith the $14 billion North Houston Highway Improvement Project bringing years of lane closures and rerouted traffic, Houston METRO needed to understand how changing roadway congestion would affect transit reliability. Traditional metrics like on-time performance and headways showed when service was degrading, but not why—and field observations alone couldn’t provide continuous visibility across the network.
Using StreetLight Traffic Monitor, Houston METRO gained real-time traffic data on congestion, queues, and roadway conditions to identify recurring friction points, distinguish temporary from systemic issues, and connect traffic conditions to transit operations. The agency used these insights to support signal-timing changes, parking restrictions, detour planning, and coordination with roadway partners. Traffic Monitor also helped METRO move from limited field observations to a scalable, network-wide approach for diagnosing transit reliability issues.
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Monitor roadway volume, speed, travel time, and changing traffic conditions across priority corridors. Compare real-time conditions with historical patterns to identify unusual disruptions and recurring operational friction.
Understand vehicle, bicycle, and pedestrian movement around stations, stops, Park & Ride facilities, and transit corridors to inform multimodal access, first- and last-mile planning, and mode-shift strategies.
Analyze Origin-Destination flows, Top Routes, roadway volumes, Select Link patterns, and turning movements to support service and network planning.
Understand the communities and travel markets surrounding transit services with traveler characteristics including education, income, household, trip purpose, and more.
Monitor live traffic conditions across construction corridors and critical detour routes, receive real-time alerts when conditions change, enabling faster response before service is impacted.
See where queues form, how long they persist, and how congestion changes across transit corridors and surrounding streets.
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Origin-Destination, or O-D, data shows where trips begin and end across a service area. Transit agencies can use O-D data to understand travel demand beyond existing ridership, evaluate whether current routes align with how people are traveling, identify underserved areas, and explore opportunities for new routes, microtransit, or service expansion.
StreetLight also helps agencies analyze when trips occur, the routes travelers use, and other travel characteristics, giving transit planners a broader view of demand to support route planning, scheduling, and long-term network decisions
Real-time traffic data helps transit agencies understand the live roadway conditions behind changes in service performance. While measures such as on-time performance and schedule adherence show when reliability declines, information on travel times, congestion, queues, incidents, and changing traffic conditions can help explain why.
StreetLight’s Traffic Monitor gives operations teams visibility into roadway conditions surrounding transit routes so they can identify recurring friction points, anticipate the effects of construction, crashes, lane closures, special events, or other disruptions, and make more informed detour, routing, and operational decisions.
Transit agencies can analyze vehicle, pedestrian, and bicycle travel patterns around stations, stops, Park & Ride facilities, and transit corridors to better understand how people reach transit and where gaps may exist.
These insights can support first- and last-mile planning, station access improvements, mode-shift programs, and service design. Agencies can also identify short vehicle trips or travel markets near existing transit where better connections, service, or rider outreach could make transit a more attractive option.
No. StreetLight complements the data and systems transit agencies already use. APC, AVL, fare systems, ridership data, and onboard surveys provide valuable insight into passengers and service performance within the transit network.
StreetLight adds a broader view of the mobility environment surrounding that network—including Origin-Destination patterns, multimodal travel demand, and real-time roadway traffic conditions. Together, these data sources can give planning and operations teams more comprehensive insights for service, investment, and operational decisions.
Yes. Transit agencies can use StreetLight’s historical and real-time travel-time data alongside their own transit travel-time or schedule information to understand where and when transit is competitive with driving.
These comparisons can reveal corridors and time periods where congestion increases transit’s relative advantage and can inform express-service planning, special-event service, schedule decisions, and rider marketing that communicates the travel-time benefits of transit.
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