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Plan Your Trip

Read service updates & rider alerts, plan your route, and track buses & trains in real time.

Online & Mobile Services

Confirm and cancel trips online. Customers can access the system by entering their customer ID number and password.

Download the GO Connect app on your phone today. Plan your trip, track your ride, purchase a mobile pass and more.

Sign up for alerts about service issues that could affect your transit commute.

Accommodations are made for people with disabilities to access and rideTransit. Any individual who believes that he or she has been subject to discrimination based on their disability may file a formal complaint with the department.

The compilation of files is used to provide schedule information.

The DBE is a federal program that ensures equal opportunity and participation in Department of Transportation assisted contracts.

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Licenses

Information about licenses, inspections and trainings for For-Hire chauffeurs and vehicles. Also learn about state legislation for a Transportation Network Company (TNC) vehicle.

Miami-Dade County regulates private ambulance companies and public sector ambulance (municipal 911 fire rescue) services.

The Passenger Transportation Regulatory Division licenses and regulates taxicabs, limousines, passenger motor carriers, school buses and more.

All for-hire drivers must obtain a chauffeur registration from the County and meet eligibility qualifications.

Providers of jitney service must be issued a Passenger Motor Carrier Certificate of Transportation. Drivers must have a for-hire chauffeur registration, and the vehicles must be inspected.

Providers must have a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and includes the transportation of persons on stretchers, using wheelchairs, or whose incapacitated and makes it impractical for them to need medical attention en route.

Vehicles providing limousine service are required to have a for-hire license. Limousines are not equipped with meters.

Provides contract, charter, jitney and special operation passenger services.

Anyone who is in a contract with the County to perform special transportation services for compensation must obtain a STS Certificate of Transportation.

Transports no more than 8 passengers and provides pre-arranged or street hail service. Must be equipped with a taximeter and the passenger decides on the route and destination.

Drivers of private school vehicles must have a chauffeur's registration (License) from the Miami-Dade County Passenger Transportation Regulatory Division.

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sunset over the Rickenbacker Causeway

Toll plazas on the Rickenbacker and Venetian Causeways are now operated by DTPW. Various payment systems and plans are available for both.

metromover moving through downtown miami

The Metromover Omni and Brickell Loops have been combined and will be running in Full Loop mode through June 2023.

Metrobus Operator

Become a full-time bus operator and earn $5,000 bonus. Applications are being accepted through Monday, July 3.

a wheelchair

Program enhancements have been implemented to improve service and reliability.

person filling a pothole

"Potholepalooza" has launched. This new community program will help to identify, address and fill potholes

Bike riders on the road.

Complete the Vision Zero survey and share your comments and suggestions on our transit network.

2022 Annual Report, DTPW

The 2022 Annual Report provides a state of the system and an update on the department’s many gains.

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About Us

We connect people to places by providing a high-quality, safe, reliable, clean, and efficient mass transit system that meets the travel needs of the County's growing population and we provide vital transportation infrastructure systems and services.

Our mass transit system includes:

We provide all traffic signals countywide, along with all traffic control signs, street signage and pavement markings and all County and State-owned street lights. We build, operate and maintain movable and fixed bridges, swales, roadway surface repairs, guardrails, and along County road rights-of-way. We also operate and maintain the Rickenbacker and Venetian Causeways.

We manage the County Stormwater Utility for flood and water quality protection and maintain the secondary canal system.

Permits for all work within rights-of-way and code enforcement of unpermitted work is also handled by our Public Works division.

Read more about our local policies and Administrative Orders for equal employment opportunity, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program, accessible Transit services, and filing a discrimination complaint (Title VI) on Transit.