A handful of contestants were given five minutes each to pitch their ideas on innovations for the industry and potentially secure business opportunities. Winning innovations were a ground transportation system electrification method, a people conveyor system and sensor-based technology that tells potential riders whether there are seats on a bus.
The General Session kicked off Monday morning in the George R. Brown Convention Center as APTA welcomed the crowd to a city undergoing a transportation renaissance. Speakers emphasized the transformation happening in public transit across the U.S., with exponential ridership growth and the challenge to gain a stable funding source to plan so many in-demand projects.
Micro Bird Inc. designs and manufactures a complete line of commercial buses for up to 25 passengers, built with superior durability providing the best cost of ownership in the marketplace.
The DoubleMap solution will be used to power SingleTRAK,SinglePoint’s software that provides real-time bus and train location details via the passengers' Web browser or handheld device.
What has changed at your operation since 2011’s EXPO?
Whether you call them streetcars, cable cars, trolleys or trams, those nostalgic, street-level transit lines not seen in many cities since the 1950s are making an unprecedented resurgence across the U.S. and around the world.
As cities work to become more relevant to new generations and attract diverse visitors, ensuring transit systems’ naming and branding systems are well-designed will become increasingly important.
It is nearly three years to the day that the Michael Melaniphy took on the role as president/CEO of APTA. Read on to find out his thoughts on federal funding, future initiatives and what he’s looking forward to at the EXPO.
Also known as the Southeast Corridor line, the 6.6-mile, 10-station Purple Line begins downtown and travels southeast along Capitol and Rusk to the Palm Center near MLK and Griggs.
Within the Fast Fare line, the Fast Fare-e offers all of the highlights of the Fast Fare in a smaller, sleek and versatile form designed to work in cooperation with the Fast Fare or as a singular product in a streetcar, paratransit vehicle, bus, train and much more.
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.
What are some of the things you are looking forward to at EXPO 2014?
Uses the revolutionary Spread Spectrum Time-Domain Reflectometry (SSTDR), made possible by LiveWire Innovation.
Before employees get to the international level, SEPTA hosts its own annual roadeos — the authority’s Bus Roadeo just celebrated its 30th anniversary — where operators and maintenance staff compete for company bragging rights, in front of their colleagues and families.
The $818 million (CD) project will bring light rail transit (LRT) to the Waterloo Region — which includes the cities of Cambridge, Waterloo and Kitchener — in two stages.
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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