Web Extra: LSU unveils iPhone bus tracking app for on-demand service
The Transloc application recently added route information for Campus Transit to its fixed-route tracking system.
The Transloc application recently added route information for Campus Transit to its fixed-route tracking system.
First Transit has operated the campus shuttle since 2007. More than 3.8 million passengers ride the shuttle annually.
With choices ranging from on-campus car sharing services to fare-free public transportation, more and more Spartans are choosing to try alternative means of getting to and from campus.
Officials hope GPS will help make van shuttle more efficient. Students complained of long wait times and unpredictable service.
The university selected NuRide to implement the carpooling site after hearing increased interest in carpooling from students and faculty.
Students are selling their subsidized bus passes on such sites as Craigslist to buyers with a slight resemblance to the photo on the pass.
The conversion of Yale's shuttle buses and vans from steel wheels to aluminum wheels is expected to save the fleet of 30 vehicles nearly 1,000 gallons of fuel and reduce CO2 output by 10 metric tons per year.
The agency is attempting to close an $800 million budget gap. The hike follows increases in 2008 and 2009.
The ARC Project Executive Committee recommended termination of the ARC Project based on a 30-day review, which confirmed the project is expected to substantially exceed its current budget. Cost overruns are estimated to be in a range from more than $2 billion to over $5 billion.
"If we grew a garden on the roof of every one of the 4,500 buses in the MTA bus fleet, we would have 35 acres of new rolling green space in the city," says Marco Castro Cosio, an NYU graduate student.
Maspeth, Queens-based Atlantic Paratrans of NYC Inc. will eventually lay off all of its 610 employees, and Progress Transit Inc. of Mill Basin, Brooklyn, will lay off 244 workers.
The company, a manufacturer of integrated build to print solutions for public transit, aerospace, and alternative energy will be listed in the NYS Unified Certification Program’s Directory of Certified DBEs, allowing them to participate in local and federally funded projects.
The company began operations in 1910 as a taxi service run by a husband and wife: Wayne and Cora Taylor. Cora Taylor was the first woman in Michigan to have a chauffeur’s license.
With Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority’s debut of the VTA Commuter Express, customers will enjoy faster and more frequent light rail service with six newly added, peak-hour commute trips throughout San Jose.
A Flint, Mich.-based company that produces a biodiesel processing machine could be selected by the MTA to convert cooking oil into fuel for the agency's fleet.
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