In the past few weeks, I’ve gotten a number of questions from a variety of sources about TCIP. Transit Communication Interface Profiles (TCIP) is ‘the FTA and APTA’s decades-old project that includes specifications for all manner of technology systems in the transit industry.’
If you want to stop reading now, just take my word that it’s not that great and rarely used. If you’re interested in learning why, and what I think should be done about it, read on.
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