BP grants fund motorcoach tourism in Gulf Coast
A new motorcoach program to promote overnight stays pays up to $1,500 traveling allowance, plus $250 per night to qualified operators.
A new motorcoach program to promote overnight stays pays up to $1,500 traveling allowance, plus $250 per night to qualified operators.
Trips between Washington and Boston would take three hours, about half the length of the current trip time. At speeds of 148 mph, trips between New York and Boston would take 84 minutes.
The 37-mile-long planned streetcar system touches every ward within the District, with a network of new streetcar lines operating in eight corridors, often connecting neighborhoods with Metro rail stations.
The $8.7 billion Access to the Region's Core (ARC) rail tunnel to New York, the largest public works project in the U.S., would be the first new rail tunnel built under the Hudson River in nearly 100 years.
Terry Garcia Crews, currently GM/president for Star Tran Inc., will take on her new role Nov. 1, 2010.
One company received federal stimulus grants for the purchase of new vehicles. Another operator, providing trips along the same route, says this represents unfair competition.
Transplus plans to design transit buses in Canada, buy brand-name components from across North America, assemble those components in China and sell the vehicles at a discount.
An $85,000 federal grant covered 80 percent of the purchase cost, with the remainder covered by donations and employee matching. In service for about a week, the bus is being monitored for mileage and performance.
The initial term of the supply agreement is one year. Deliveries totaling $627,500 are scheduled to begin in October. Additional deliveries permitted in the agreement during its one-year term could raise the total value of the contract to over $1 million.
As part of a four-year, $15 million contract with ACS, public transportation users will receive smart cards free of cost from the city, load them with a pre-paid amount. The new system consolidates the different fare options now used by the RTD.
Manufacturer put its Commuter Coach, featuring APTA’s signature campaign graphics, front and center in a caravan at the rally that converged on Capitol Hill last week, urging Congress to increase funding for public transportation by passing a multi-year surface transportation authorization bill.
Under the $1.6M contract, NextBus will use its patented technology to process data obtained from all buses in LA Metro’s fleet equipped with GPS devices, then provide real-time, predictive bus arrival information to users by interfacing with the Southern California 511 phone- and website-based traveller information service, LA Metro’s own public website, the nextbus.com website, as well as cell and smartphone text messaging.
The awards to seven University Transportation Centers were made by the DOT’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration. Recipients are using new technologies and developing innovative approaches to improve transportation systems throughout the U.S.
Two new reports estimate that seat belts saved more than 72,000 lives during the five years between 2005 and 2009, while child restraint systems and minimum drinking age laws saved hundreds more during 2009.
GPS system will allow real-time bus tracking via the Web and smartphones, while cameras will record audio and video as a security measure.
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