Passenger Bus, Rail and Motorcoach Industry News

The complete system will include onboard computers, touchscreen driver terminals, planning software, statistics and reporting software, and onboard passenger information displays and announcements.

MOBILEticket is a new smartphone application that helps transit authorities connect with their riders, reduce operating costs, and move into the future of open payment systems.

The agency is rolling out the GPS-based system across the remaining three boroughs after last year’s successful launch in Staten Island and the Bronx. Cubic will install the MTA’s Bus Hardware System on approximately 3,800 buses serving Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

Taps Strategic Mapping to create ITS system. Also plans on releasing "Go Pass" with The T and DART.

In a letter to FCC Chairman Genachowski, the transportation leaders ask the FCC to allow for due diligence by ensuring that any timelines contained in a proposed rulemaking relating to the 5.9 GHz band are consistent with the NTIA schedule for completing its quantitative evaluation and issuing final recommendations.

The total value of the Suffolk County Transit contract is in the upper single digit millions and the project is expected to be completed by 2014.

Serving a population of more than 200,000, the Shreveport Area Transit System operates 20 paratransit vehicles, as well as 49 fixed-route buses covering 16 routes a day.

Was selected to help address ETS's objective for a fully integrated, progressive, easy-to-use, public transit system that supports economic development and helps improve the quality of life in Edmonton.

Porterville Transit will use Android-based tablet devices as in-vehicle mobile data devices to enhance on-time performance and real-time traveler information services.

The area of heaviest investment will be traffic management systems, including traveler information, congestion charging, and adaptive signaling.