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Newsby StaffNovember 13, 2013

New tool calculates housing, transportation costs

The Location Affordability Portal will help consumers and communities better understand the combined costs of housing and transportation associated with living in a specific region, street or neighborhood and make better-informed decisions about where to live, work and invest.

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Newsby StaffNovember 8, 2013

AC Transit rolls out new Gilligs

The dark green buses are the third in a series of locally-built coaches acquired as part of the agency’s “A Better Ride” campaign and its Buy American Goods policy.

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Newsby StaffNovember 7, 2013

Kansas City, Clean Energy reach CNG agreement

Within three years, the agency is expected to use approximately 700,000 diesel gallon equivalents of CNG per year, which reduces greenhouse gases by 1,622 metric tons per year, the equivalent of taking 335 cars off the road per year.

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Newsby StaffNovember 7, 2013

U.K. town to replace buses with driverless pods

Each pod, which has a battery-powered electric motor, can hold up to two people and their luggage and travels just 12 mph.

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Newsby StaffNovember 7, 2013

Allied Specialty Vehicles forms bus division, appoints CEO

Will be comprised of Collins Bus Corp., Mid Bus, Corbeil, Champion Bus Inc., General Coach America Inc. Goshen Coach Inc., El Dorado National California Inc., El Dorado National Kansas Inc., Krystal Coach and Federal Coach.

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Newsby StaffNovember 4, 2013

T&I Committee unveils new website

Features a simple, user-friendly interface and continues the committee’s rebranding, incorporating the use of “transport” in an identifiable new logo and across media platforms.

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Newsby StaffOctober 31, 2013

More than 1,000 So. Cal. advocates gather to support transit

The 12th annual Mobility 21 Southern California Transportation Summit attendees learned about harnessing the power of new technology, the importance of investing in the maintenance of existing infrastructure and more

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Newsby StaffOctober 31, 2013

Ontario plans to sell 'green bonds' to fund transit, infrastructure

Finance Minister Charles Sousa said there is a pent-up demand among ecologically minded investors for these bonds, which he hopes will enable the government to pay a lower interest rate than they do on conventional bonds, according to the report.

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Newsby StaffOctober 30, 2013

San Francisco to add 50 New Flyer hybrid buses

The new vehicles will be added to the current fleet of buses in service and replace 50 of its 2000/2001 Neoplan diesel buses, which have reached or exceeded their useful service life of 12 years.

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Newsby StaffOctober 15, 2013

BYD supplies first electric bus in Caribbean

The first of four major objectives in the MOU was electrifying public transportation with zero-emissions vehicles.

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