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A lot goes into providing communities with safe, reliable transportation. Bus and transport fleet managers are increasingly turning to fleet management software to help improve fleet operations, reduce downtime and operating costs, and increase asset ROI.
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Changes include addition of two new Metro Rapid lines.
Read More →An American Transportation bus hit a guardrail and overturned along Interstate 95 before dawn on Sunday. Witnesses reported that a speeding passenger vehicle swerved into the bus’s travel lane and the bus swerved to avoid it.
Read More →All 170 bus routes are now wheelchair and scooter friendly. The agency’s last few remaining GM “New Look” non-accessible buses — a model that dates back to the 1950s — have been replaced by accessible Orion VII low-floor buses.
Read More →An ongoing review of the city’s compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act shows that one-quarter of the city’s bus stops don’t meet the federal standard, according to consultants hired in 2011 to perform a citywide audit of public facilities
Read More →Will use system to evaluate route network scenarios and their impacts on riders, as well as to develop optimized timetables for the revamped service.
Read More →Violations will be captured using a new automated bus-mounted camera system.
Read More →A tour bus, operated by New Oriental Tours, rear-ended a tractor-trailer on the Pennsylvania turnpike while traveling from Kentucky to New Jersey. Dozens of passengers were hospitalized.
Read More →The system, Bus on the Go, or BONGO, provides information about bus routes, schedules and the exact location of buses. The initial project cost nearly $300,000, with annual operating costs of about $100,000.
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