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News•by Staff•November 4, 2016

Tramways have significantly lower CO2 emissions than BRT, study says

The study concluded that over a 30-year lifetime, a tramway system emits about 50 percent of the CO2 as a BRT system operated with diesel buses, and about 30 percent less CO2 than a BRT system operated with hybrid buses.

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News•by Staff•November 3, 2016

Meet the person behind the 'voice' of Ottawa public transit

In this Q&A, Doucet talks about how he was chosen for the job, the process of recording announcements and what he thinks about hearing his own voice on the train.

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News•by Staff•November 3, 2016

Phoenix held up as model for voters weighing $200B in transit measures

Mayor Greg Stanton, on the call organized by the Center for Transportation Excellence and APTA, talked about the city’s passage last year of an increase in the sales tax.

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News•by Staff•November 3, 2016

Riley to lead business dev. in Central Region WSP | PB

He has over 27 years of experience managing and leading teams, in both the private and public sectors, in the infrastructure technical delivery environment.

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News•by Staff•November 2, 2016

Denver RTD granted extension of waiver for university rail line ops

The agency and its contract builder and operator Denver Transit Partners received an extension of their waiver from the FRA, allowing for continued operation of University of Colorado A Line and B Line. 

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News•by Staff•November 2, 2016

TransLoc, NCDOT partners to enhance mobility with Amtrak, Uber, transit

TransLoc’s Rider app will provide passengers with door-to-door trip planning to and from nine Amtrak stations throughout the state and bring multimodal transit opportunities to more than five million residents across three major metropolitan areas.

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News•by Staff•November 2, 2016

San Diego MTS to add 45 more Siemens S70 light rail vehicles

The order will bring the total number of vehicles supplied to MTS to 244, making MTS the largest U.S. light rail customer for Siemens.

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News•by Staff•November 2, 2016

Feds makes up to $850M available in FASTLANE infrastructure grants

The program was established in the FAST Act to fund critical freight and highway projects across the country.

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News•by Staff•November 1, 2016

Maxwell delivers 1st lithium-ion capacitor on China rail system

The technology will be used for rapid-energy regeneration in the trolley system in the capital city of Hunan province in China.

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News•by Staff•November 1, 2016

Union strike impacting SEPTA's bus, trolley service

The strike is causing widespread disruption, and raising concerns that if the situation is not resolved it may interfere with Election Day next week. Regional rail is the only service still operating, and even before the strike, rail services were operating "at near capacity."

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