Categories | Trade magazine |
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Frequency | 10 per year |
Founded | 1904 |
Company | Bobit Business Media |
Country | United States |
Based in | Torrance, California |
Language | English |
Website |
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ISSN | 1098-0083 |
Metro Magazine is a trade magazine for bus and rail transit and motorcoach operators, published in the United States since 1904, taking its current name in 1975. [1] It is published monthly, except for July and December, by Bobit Business Media. [2] The magazine is headquartered in Torrance, California. [3]
First published in 1904 as Electric Traction Weekly, the magazine became a monthly in 1912 and changed its name to the Electric Traction and Bus Journal in 1932. [1] That name was relatively short-lived, being replaced by Mass Transportation in 1935. Its publisher at that time was Kenfield-Davis Publishing Company. [4] In 1959, new owner Hitchcock Publishing renamed the magazine Modern Passenger Transportation, but in 1961 this was changed to Metropolitan Transportation and in 1965 yet again, to simply Metropolitan. [1] In 1964 Bobit Publishing (now Bobit Business Media) purchased Metropolitan [5] and in 1975 shortened the name to Metro (or Metro Magazine), which the magazine itself writes as METRO. [1]