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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

As a transit agency think about branding and marketing as a total focus of the organization

WMATA service vehicle

I wouldn't consider this Washington Gas truck a paragon of branding, but they do way more than WMATA with what you would consider to be an ordinary element of their fleet.

Washington Gas utility pickup has some branding elements

There are plenty of ways to be creative with pro-transit advertising.  This is an example of an ad from Chicago.

RTA (Chicago) pro-transit advertising

Or just some basic graphics about transit vehicles and how many riders they carry versus cars.

Number of vehicles needed to carry 45 people, by type of vehicle

1200px-Moscow_traffic_congestion
Bus and traffic in Moscow.  Wikipedia photo.

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Of course, this is true of city and county governments too.  Why not wrap their service vehicles with promotions?  I've mentioned this for years in terms of garbage trucks, but there are many other opportunities.

Waste Management can do it, why not a city or county?

Waste Management trash collection truck with ad

Baltimore city garbage sanitation truck with environmental message
Baltimore City garbage truck

The solid waste function in Johannesburg, South Africa is "branded" as Pikitup. Although they could do a lot more with the opportunity of their trucks as rolling billboards.

This is a wrap of a garbage truck done by Ferrari Color.  Philadelphia and later DC have done a bit of this with trucks designated for recycling.
Garbage truck vehicle (branding) wrap

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2 Comments:

At 1:14 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just make the g@d$mn trains run reliably. Stop the bleeding, then we can talk about branding. Priorities.

 
At 10:57 AM, Blogger Richard Layman said...

Piece on "glass box marketing," how increasing internal organizational culture is exposed and becomes part of the "public-facing" brand.

http://trendwatching.com/quarterly/2017-09/glass-box-brands/

 

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