The patent pending low-floor design is an industry first, joining a light-duty chassis cab to a low-floor chassis assembly. This unique design offers a passenger capacity of up to 14 ambulatory or four wheelchairs.
The lightweight displays will be readable under all lighting conditions and easy to deploy within existing infrastructure.
A 30-year transportation professional who has worked in both the public and private sectors, Margaret O’Meara, who is based in Boston, is client services leader for WSP | PB's Northeast Region.
Effective this July, the move is in response to a $2.7 million budget deficit projected for Fiscal Year 2016.
This is a gateway to a car-lite lifestyle, with users owning fewer cars in a household, researchers say.