Reddit reviews Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit

Were you inspired by Trains, Buses, People? He has a very similar map for every city in the US served by rail with the addition of highlighting job centers.

1. To learn about what US transit systems look like on the ground today, read Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit by Christof Spieler.
   
   
2. To learn about how bus planning works and what makes good bus planning, read Human Transit by Jarrett Walker.

Human Transit and Trains, Buses, People (written by a professor of transportation at Rice University) are excellent introductions to transportation. Jarret Walker, author of Human transit, also has a blog he updates quite frequently. Strong Towns has a biking and parking section of their blog and an editorial called Ask R. Moses that has questions answered by civil engineers, typically professionals that run transportation. NACTO also has an excellent guide in urban bike transportation for something specific that we're using for a bike-ped class this semester.


As you explore these topics you'll start to find organizations like NACTO and people like Jarret Walker you'll be able to find webinars and youtube videos as well as additional reading material to fill in those gaps.


If you want something truly academic, I have a pdf of a textbook I used in my transportation fundamentals class last semester I'm happy to email you if you'll DM me.