The new service includes two routes, which utilize advanced transportation technology to provide customers with a more convenient and efficient ride along the congested Memorial Drive corridor. A partnership between the FTA, GDOT, DeKalb County, the Atlanta Regional Commission and MARTA made the project possible.
The series features people from across the country who have been injured or lost loved ones in distracted driving crashes. In 2009, nearly 5,500 people died and 500,000 were injured in accidents involving a distracted driver.
With the introduction of 41 additional buses, MTA's hybrid inventory totals 161 out of a total fleet of 748. The fleet will have approximately 500 hybrid buses by 2016.
Of three bills passed with the intention of improving campus transportation, one bill asks for an extension of shuttle service to include weekend hours. Some senators argued that the extension, at an estimated $60,000 per month, will be too expensive.
With 10 to 20 percent more students using the nighttime Campus Transit van system this year and with the Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation at capacity with full-time drivers, it has turned to student drivers to bulk up its staff.
Since ridership has declined from 350 rides per day in 2008 to 100 per day in 2010, officials are cutting shuttle stops and creating a bus tracking system to make the service more efficient.
About 300 of the campus' 11,000 students voted no on a proposal to add a bus route linking the university with Janesville, which has a significant college student and elderly population.
Company will manage 70 employees and the operation of 50 transit buses, which will utilize bio-diesel fuel and Green Roads technology in an effort to reduce emissions and petroleum consumption.
The nine-foot by 18-foot individual module designed and installed by De Biasse & Seminara, comprised of four red and two clear panels and one column bundle, is intended to be arranged in various configurations or used solo, depending upon ridership, location and context at each individual stop.
Funded by a $9M grant received through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Transit Security Grant Program, the ProActive Terrorist Recognition and Interdiction Operations and Tactics (P.A.T.R.I.O.T.) System training will be made available to approximately 9,500 NJ Transit employees.
Rail lines and stations, bus routes, retail concessions, special events, and even the CTA logo are on the auction block.
The Clipper inter-agency smart card contains a built-in mechanism that allows some riders to exit BART stations even if their cards lack sufficient value to pay full fare.
Allows "mechanics to easily identify the correct part the first time, and then transfer the part numbers from the web based parts catalog into a requisition directly within the AssetWorks application, automating the parts ordering process."
The concept of the advertisement, "Happy Buses" was inspired by an intervention TV series was collaborated and developed in-house by the staff at Complete Coach Works.
StarMetro (Fla.); Regional Transportation Commission (Nev.); Foothill Transit (Calif.); King County Metro Transit (Wash.) and Fresno Area Express (Calif.), received more than $25M in grants from the FTA to purchase 20 fast-charge battery-electric transit buses and 4 EV charging stations.
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams had encouraged eclipse viewers to take mass transit to their destinations for safety and congestion relief.
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