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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 14, 2014

Innovation Challenge showcases transit’s forward thinkers

A handful of contestants were given five minutes each to pitch their ideas on innovations for the industry and potentially secure business opportunities. Winning innovations were a ground transportation system electrification method, a people conveyor system and sensor-based technology that tells potential riders whether there are seats on a bus.

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Newsby StaffOctober 14, 2014

Public Transportation Industry Descends on Houston for EXPO

The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) welcomed thousands of attendees to Houston for the start of EXPO 2014 at the George R. Brown Convention Center on Monday.

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Newsby StaffOctober 13, 2014

Houston's Metro Boosting Rail & Revamping Bus Network

METRO spoke with Metro’s President/CEO Thomas C. Lambert about his journey from police officer to head of a public transportation system as well as the success the agency has experienced over the last several years and EXPO.

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Newsby StaffOctober 13, 2014

Improving Transportation Performance: Time to Focus on Operations

Two potential improvements would be cutting spending to match revenues or increasing revenues to match spending, but Congress continues to avoid these hard choices. Their de facto policy of leaping from crisis to crisis is the worst of all worlds, as funding continues to be inadequate and grantees have little assurance of stability in federal funding.

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Newsby StaffOctober 13, 2014

Waterloo Region's Rapid Transit System to Shape Growth, Development

The $818 million (CD) project will bring light rail transit (LRT) to the Waterloo Region — which includes the cities of Cambridge, Waterloo and Kitchener — in two stages.

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Newsby StaffOctober 13, 2014

At SEPTA, Internal Support Helps Roadeo Team Thrive

Before employees get to the international level, SEPTA hosts its own annual roadeos — the authority’s Bus Roadeo just celebrated its 30th anniversary — where operators and maintenance staff compete for company bragging rights, in front of their colleagues and families.

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Newsby StaffOctober 13, 2014

IMPulse unveiling cable theft detection system

Uses the revolutionary Spread Spectrum Time-Domain Reflectometry (SSTDR), made possible by LiveWire Innovation.

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Newsby StaffOctober 13, 2014

Question of the Day: EXPO Monday

What are some of the things you are looking forward to at EXPO 2014?

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Newsby StaffOctober 13, 2014

New Flyer introduces Xcelsior all-electric

By replacing conventional mechanical power train systems, such as engines, transmissions fuel systems and complete exhaust after-treatment, with a high efficiency electric drive, the XE40 requires less maintenance throughout its life.

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Newsby StaffOctober 13, 2014

Houston Metro: A Story of Innovation, Evolution

The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County is an example of what can be achieved when vendor and customer work together as a team. The partnership began over 10 years ago in 2003 with an Integrated Vehicle Operations Management System (IVOMS) for Metro’s 1,000-plus fleet.

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