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Newsby StaffSeptember 3, 2024

Houston METRO Adds Zero-Emission Buses to Fleet

The pilot project represents a significant step toward enhancing the customer experience and improving service reliability.

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Newsby StaffAugust 14, 2024

New Flyer Adding BAE’s Propulsion System to its Hybrid-Electric Buses

The next-generation system from BAE Systems is smaller and lighter than the previous generation product.

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Newsby StaffAugust 14, 2024

MBTA Launching Income-Eligible Reduced Fare Program

A meaningful improvement for fare equity, the new program provides riders who are aged 18 to 64 and have low income with reduced one-way fares of approximately 50% off on all MBTA buses, subway, commuter rail, and paratransit travel.

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Newsby StaffAugust 12, 2024

King County Metro, INIT Team to Bring CarMedialab Tech On Board

The cloud-based technologies will be conveyed across an initial 45 battery-powered electric buses and trolleybuses, eventually extending to a total of 500 battery-electric coaches and 174 trolleys over the contract term.

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Safety Cornerby Gina Maria BoniniJuly 30, 2024

How Advances in Thermal Management Revolutionize Urban Mobility

In the daily hustle and bustle of city life, transit buses serve as the backbone of urban transportation, allowing millions of city dwellers to get from point A to point B each day reliably.

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Newsby StaffJuly 30, 2024

San Diego's Zero Emissions Buses Hit 1M Mile Marker

The milestone, 1,021,990 miles, represents 2,130 metric tons of CO2e, or carbon dioxide equivalent, not being emitted into the region’s air.

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Newsby StaffJuly 22, 2024

INIT Bringing Contactless Payment to San Diego

Contactless Payment is available on MTS buses and Trolleys, and NCTD COASTER, SPRINTER, FLEX, and BREEZE services.

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Newsby StaffJuly 17, 2024

Volvo Buses Partners with Optibus, Stoneridge

The move recognizes the important role digital services will play in the development of efficient and sustainable people transportation.

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Newsby StaffJuly 15, 2024

University of California, Irvine Adds 5 PhoenixEV Electric Buses

UCI has had an electric fleet since January 2018 and is the first university in the nation to go all electric. Since then, UCI has added 25 buses to their fleet, and logged 1,183,210 miles.

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Newsby StaffJuly 9, 2024

FTA Awards $1.5B in Grants to Modernize Bus Fleets

Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, FTA has awarded nearly $5 billion in the past three years to replace and modernize transit buses on America’s roadways, building new technology with American workers. U.S. factories will produce more than 4,600 of these new buses.

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