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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 StaffJanuary 14, 2010

Environmental groups call for N.J. Transit probe

Two statewide coalitions warn of polluted soil under rail bed.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 14, 2010

D.C. Metro’s Catoe to retire

General Manager John Catoe is leaving the agency after three years. His last day will be April 2.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 14, 2010

Indian BRT system honored for improving mobility, cutting emissions

Award given annually to a city that uses transport innovations to increase mobility for all residents, while reducing transportation greenhouse and air pollution emissions and increasing cyclist and pedestrian safety and access.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 13, 2010

New York MTA's simplified Website goes live

Also announces that the leading format for sharing data, known as the Google Transit Feed Specification, will now be known as the General Transit Feed Specification, or GTFS.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 13, 2010

Chicago's Metra opens ARRA-funded parking lot

ARRA funded $1 million of the $1.1 million project, which added 329 parking spaces and included the construction of two new stairways to the platforms. A bus bay and landscaping will be completed this spring.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 13, 2010

UTC fuel cell reaches durability milestone

Three of AC Transit’s buses are equipped with the fuel cell systems and have now traveled more than 213,000 miles, with an average fuel economy that is 65 percent better than the control fleet of diesel buses running the same routes and duty cycles.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 13, 2010

China adds Bombardier high-speed signaling system

Thousands of miles of lines in China will be equipped with the new system as part of the development of the DPL network, planned to include 8,000 miles of high-speed lines by 2013.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 13, 2010

New Starts/Small Starts policy shift proposed

FTA will soon initiate a separate rulemaking process, inviting public comment on ways to appropriately measure all the benefits that result from such investments.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 12, 2010

Amtrak to make major upgrades in 2010

Plans include replacing and expanding fleet of locomotives and passenger railcars with the purchase of several hundred single-level and bi-level long distance passenger railcars and more than a hundred locomotives.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 12, 2010

France adds Alstom trains in $188.4M order

The initial contract, signed in October 2009, totaled $1.1 billion for the supply of 100 Coradia Polyvalent trains. The first 119 trainsets will be distributed beginning in 2013, with the total number of trains potentially reaching 1,000 units and generating over $10 billion.

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