Adjective modifier

• urban: Yet the ties between urban mass transit and long distance services are still loose.

• first: Cubic Transportation Systems, with WMATA, designed the two-year-old SmarTrip system, the nation's first mass transit Smart Card fare collection program.

Modifies a noun

• system: A measly inch of dry powder here and the whole mass transit system shuts down to put chains on... .

• mode: In some conurbations mass transit modes already work in an integrated manner within a common public shell to market their services.