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News•by Staff•October 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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News•by Staff•October 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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News•by Staff•October 13, 2014

MCI Rolls Into EXPO with its Greenest Commuter Coach

MCI’s latest appearance at EXPO will feature a Houston Metro clean-diesel Commuter Coach; a 40-foot CNG model and a pilot coach with new Bendix braking and a ZF axle system.

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News•by Staff•October 10, 2014

Cleveland St. buys naming rights for new RTA bus line

The new route will offer commuters an upgraded ride on new, specially-designed vehicles fully branded for CSU. Stations connect commuters traveling from the downtown campus through Cleveland’s West Side along Clifton Boulevard and with branch routes connecting multiple West Shore communities.

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News•by Staff•October 9, 2014

ABB’s energy storage work with the SEPTA wins innovation award

Originally installed in April 2012, the “Wayside Energy Storage Project" captures braking energy for redistribution into the SEPTA power network while generating revenue with behind the meter load response to sustain the local grid and the wholesale energy market.

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News•by Staff•October 9, 2014

BYD drives vehicle from Calif. to Houston for EXPO

The vehicle travelled 1,500 miles in all and was charged along the way at 10 locations where BYD simply connected the vehicle into the AC power grid to charge up in two to three hours.

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News•by Staff•October 9, 2014

N.Y., San Francisco Best Cities to Commute without Car

The study used ranked each metro region by how long it takes people to get to work: Jobs that can be reached within 10 minutes are worth more than those accessible with 20 minutes, and so on, up to 60 minutes.

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News•by Staff•October 9, 2014

Better public transportation could save U.S. $100 trillion by 2050

The study looked at two possibilities for the year 2050 — what would happen if cities continue with business as usual, and what would happen if they start to follow some of the most transit-friendly cities today, like Copenhagen or Tokyo.

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News•by Staff•October 8, 2014

Tour of the futuristic roof on Calif.'s high-speed rail station

The multimodal center features a specially designed roof constructed with ETFE, a lightweight polymer that allows natural light to enter the cavernous space.

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Photo Galleries•by Staff•October 7, 2014

BusCon 2014

A look at 2014's BusCon event.

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