California's Omnitrans Taps STV for Bus Charging Project

STV is collaborating with San Bernardino, Calif.’s Omnitrans to spearhead essential battery-electric bus (BEB) charging infrastructure upgrades at the agency’s East Valley Maintenance Facility and Kendall/Palm transit station.

As part of this project, new charging infrastructure at the East Valley Maintenance Facility will initially be introduced to accommodate 16 BEBs, while on-route charging infrastructure will be installed at the Kendall/Palm intermodal transit center near the California State University in San Bernardino.

Omnitrans’ BEB Upgrades

Serving as the prime consultant, STV oversees all aspects of design for the project, including charging infrastructure, environmental, civil, roadway, electrical, and structural services for facility design, as well as project support services including project controls, project administration, and constructability review.

The project builds upon STV’s prior collaboration with Omnitrans.

In 2019, STV provided construction documents for several projects at the agency’s West Valley and East Valley facilities. At the time, STV conducted a preliminary analysis to explore the feasibility of integrating photovoltaic power (PV) and battery storage to enable Omnitrans to power its compressed natural gas fuel plants at the two facilities.