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King County Metro Transit’s prototype battery-dominant electric bus should be delivered in late 2012. The agency plans to buy one or two vehicles plus one or two charging stations to test their suitability for the transit system.
Read More →For the second year in a row, it has been named one of the Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies by San Francisco Business Times in their annual survey of privately held companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Read More →As part of the new deal, DART and Titan will be introducing new media formats, including "Station Dominations," "Bus Headliners" and "Michelangelos" — media featured on the ceilings of buses — to the system.
Read More →The statewide contract will allow rural and small-urban transportation providers to improve their efficiency and productivity by using RouteMatch's technology for fixed-route and demand-response routing, scheduling, dispatching and vehicle tracking.
Read More →Sunway Charter & Tours had been administered by founder Nelson Jackson, who died in February. Jackson made no provisions for Sunway in his will and no buyers could be found to take over the operation.
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The three railcars included in this initial rollout are the first of 120 new Silverliner V rail cars the agency is purchasing under a $274 million contract with Hyundai-Rotem USA, which has opened a new facility in South Philadelphia to do fabrication and assembly work.
Read More →John B. Catoe will provide strategic consulting services to MV and assist the company in developing long-term business plans and growth initiatives.
Read More →Other factors ranked as important in choosing the mode: Shorter travel times compared to flying to destination (80 percent); the experience traveling by train (79 percent); opportunities during leisure or business trip to visit another city that is linked to destination by high-speed rail (78 percent); and environmental concerns (75 percent).
Read More →Joseph Smith began his career in 1977 as a bus operator at the Amsterdam Depot and rose through the ranks, eventually leading the historic consolidation of the MTA's three bus divisions.
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Per the $466 million contract, Siemens will build 70 electric locomotives for Amtrak's Northeast and Keystone Corridor lines as part of Amtrak's landmark fleet rejuvenation.
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