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L.A. Metro’s latest annual customer survey shows a distinct divide between riders using only the bus or exclusively rail, and reveals some income, gender and race differences. Is it just an L.A. thing?
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Sacramento Regional Transit system may extend its times of service and the university has begun running a late night shuttle within 10 miles of campus.
Read More →The new efficiencies in service that automatic vehicle location brings are being extended into transit yard operations using systems that can provide very accurate vehicle location through covered parking garages and maintenance facilities.
Read More →Also transformed RATP Dev Shepherd’s Bush garage in West London into an advanced, smart electric bus operating center.
Read More →All-electric propulsion system has many benefits including zero tailpipe emissions, reduced noise inside and outside the bus, and low operational and maintenance costs.
Read More →The company’s new J4500 wears the most advanced features available, starting with the powertrain featuring the Detroit Diesel DD13 engine and Allison transmission.
Read More →Calls for more efficient passenger loading and unloading, metered parking spaces where buses can wait for customers and a permit system to better manage and enforce tour bus parking and loading.
Read More →The PRIMOVE system charges the Berlin buses' batteries at 200 kW in the very few minutes of dwell time spent at the end stations. This allows the e-buses to serve the nearly four-mile-long bus line back and forth - without additional stops or battery changing for an entire day.
Read More →The cost of the camera systems is being funded in part by a $160-million agreement with the federal government, which will also help cover the cost of new GPS bus-tracking technology and other upgrades.
Read More →OSU plans to replace its 20 diesel-powered buses with CNG buses over the next five years and expects the first eight to be in operation by the fall of 2009. The transit buses are those used on campus and within the Stillwater community.
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