Beyond and CitySwift will work with the MTA to study how microtransit options can be integrated into the city’s transit ecosystem and how to optimize bus performance, respectively, while Kinnos will provide its disinfectant colorant to help Port Authority staff better understand how well surfaces are disinfected. ![]() Two of the three winners - Beyond, a local scooter-leasing company and CitySwift, an Irish transit data analysis firm - will test their products with the MTA for next year, while the third winner, a biotechnology company called Kinnos, will test its proprietary color additive for disinfectants with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The winning companies were selected by the Transit Tech Lab, a startup accelerator run by the Transit Innovation Partnership, a collaboration between the civic nonprofit Partnership for New York City and the MTA, which launched in 2018 to help bring technology into the region’s transit systems. ![]() New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority this week awarded three startups with one-year contracts to test high-tech solutions that could improve the reliability and cleanliness of transit options during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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