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Coalition leaders outline priorities for preserving bus funding, maintaining competitive grants, and ensuring flexibility for transit agencies nationwide.
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Agency installs its solar powered bus shelters where the shelter may lie outside the municipal electric power grid, and because the connection and electric usage costs are prohibitive.
Read More →For every $1 billion invested in public transportation capital and operations, an average of 36,000 jobs are supported. These jobs result in roughly $3.6 billion of business sales and generate nearly $500 million in federal, state and local tax revenues.
Read More →The "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" introduced by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and John Kerry (D-MA) this week potentially offers important new funding to expand access to public transportation.
Read More →Fuel cell buses are zero-emission vehicles, with no greenhouse gases, particulates, or harmful emissions released during operation. Water is the only byproduct. BC Transit's fleet of fuel cell buses is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by around 1,800 tons per year in British Columbia.
Read More →The $345,000 will be used to convert to more energy efficient lighting systems. RIPTA expects to save $115,000 in annual electric utility expenses, cutting kilowatt usage by more than half.
Read More →To supply HybriDrive system to Daimler Buses North America, which received an order from King County Metro Transit for 500 Orion VII hybrid-electric buses, with an option for 200 additional units.
Read More →The agency’s free, online “ShareTheRide” system helps commuters figure out how much pollution their vehicle or mode of travel will generate, and choose an alternative with a lighter carbon footprint.
Read More →Company has joined The Climate Registry, a non-profit organization founded to set consistent and transparent standards for businesses and governments to calculate, verify, and publicly report their greenhouse gas emissions.
Read More →According to the EPA, emissions have had the fastest growth in the transportation sector, with 28 percent of the United States' total GHG emissions coming from transportation.
Read More →Real Transportation Solutions for Green House Gas Emissions includes best practices, state examples, research findings, and links to other climate change information sites.
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