April 29, 2014 - CHK America CEO Rick Wood announced today that the Company is part of the Project Connect team that is working to solve traffic problems in Central Texas. CHK America designed an interactive visioning map that is assisting stakeholders in understanding the new High-Capacity Transit System currently being considered in and around Austin and San Antonio, Texas.

CHK America utilized its expertise in customer information solutions for the public transportation industry to create a new, interactive vision map. The map allows users to click on buttons representing Regional Commuter Rail, Bus Rapid Transit, Urban Rail, and Transit Express Lanes, to see how each mode relates to the others. This interactive map retains the simplicity of CHK’s award-winning diagrammatic maps while including geographic detail, such as streets and destinations. A notable feature of the project is live interaction between the map and the user. (View the map: http://projectconnect.com/connect/project-connect-interactive-map)

“CHK was pleased to be able to lend our design expertise to this important project for Central Texas,” stated CHK America CEO, Rick Wood. “We strongly believe that providing an easy-to-use, highly interactive visual during the planning phase of such a significant change to transit in this area will facilitate decisionmaking and community support.”

As described on the Project Connect website, “Project Connect is the vision for Central Texas’ high-capacity transit system. Linking activity centers within the fastest growing region in the country, Project Connect aims to connect people, places and opportunities in an easy, efficient way.”

Established in 1999, CHK America is the premier best-practice provider of customer information solutions for the US public transportation industry. The company’s 8 Second Rule has set the standard for communicating complex public transit information to customers. Under the leadership of CEO Rick Wood, the foremost authority in wayfinding strategies, CHK America products now reach over 2 billion transit riders per year – fully 20 percent of all transit customers in the US. Between customized information design and purpose-built hardware fabrications, CHK America provides solutions for many of the country’s largest multi-modal transit agencies, including WMATA in Washington, DART in Dallas and Metro in Los Angeles.