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Our team of enterprising editors bring years of experience covering the fleet industry. We offer a deep understanding of trends and the ever-evolving landscapes we cover in fleet, trucking, and transportation.  

Newsby StaffOctober 11, 2012

N.Y.'s Centro opens $18.8M transit hub

Centro's new facility includes a 55,000 square foot canopy, 22 sawtooth bus bays and heated sidewalks to help melt the 110 inches of snow that fall during an average winter. The project replaces the "Common Center," which required customers navigate an array of buses that lined up in all four directions of an intersection.

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Newsby StaffOctober 10, 2012

FRA completes Amtrak Vermonter Line upgrades

Included heavier continuously-welded rail, bridge work, new tie installation and ballast work. Improvements enable the scheduled running time for the line to be reduced by about a half hour and passenger-train track speeds in signaled territory to increase from 50 to 79 miles per hour.

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Newsby StaffOctober 10, 2012

Cubic, PATCO payment pilot to end

The company wanted to test its open payment account-based products and determine if people would use the same media as both their fare card and their retail spend card, and both objectives were successfully achieved.

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Newsby StaffOctober 10, 2012

Delays may threaten some Calif. HSR funds

Work on the Madera-Bakersfield segments has to be mostly completed by March 31, 2017, to ensure bills are paid before the federal grant expires in September 2017. Major construction is unlikely to begin until the fall of 2013.

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Newsby StaffOctober 10, 2012

Swedish institute develops new fire suppression standard

The objective has been to construct a model of an engine compartment where stakeholders can evaluate the firefighting performance of different suppression systems in a well-defined and objective way. The new standard SP method 4912, edition 3 has just been published.

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Newsby StaffOctober 10, 2012

Veolia earns L.A. contract extension

The new contract goes into effect in November and includes operation of the city’s 130 vehicles in the fixed-route fleet.

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Newsby StaffOctober 10, 2012

ABC delivers 3 T2145s to Mich. operator

Vehicles are powered by a Detroit DD13 engine, driving through an Allison B500 automatic transmission, and feature Electronic Stability Control, Iteris lane departure warning systems and Alcoa Dura Bright aluminum wheels.

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Newsby StaffOctober 10, 2012

Canadian agency partners with INIT, Google

YRT/Viva is the first transit agency in Canada to offer real-time trip planning on Google with up-to-the-minute next bus departure information.

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Newsby StaffOctober 10, 2012

Premier Alaska Tours adds 2 Prevost H3-45s

When its ambitious plan is completed, the Anchorage-based company will have more than 50 Prevosts in its stable of 75 motorcoaches and support vehicles.

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Newsby StaffOctober 10, 2012

D.C. Metro unveils new full-scale railcar mock-up

The transit authority unveils the mock-up of the 7000-series at an event in Maryland. The new cars represent the largest investment ever made in the fleet in the system's history.

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