
Testing shows the vehicles have made significant progress toward commercialization, surpassing fed technical targets for fuel cell operating hours and reliability.
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The program provides major benefits towards meeting the state’s climate and air quality goals, with a total reduction of more than 32 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Agency heads from Baltimore; Long Beach, Calif.; Tampa, Fla.; Austin, Texas; Oakland, Calif.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Orange County, Calif.; and Indianapolis weigh in on this hot topic.
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The pilot’s design employs smaller 12 seats buses (each fully-ADA compliant with Clipper Card readers and fare boxes) and offer riders the choice of which existing Line 275 bus stop they would like to begin and end their travel.
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Two transit agencies in California — AC Transit and the Orange County Transportation Authority — will each deploy 10 buses. New Flyer will produce the buses in conjunction with Ballard Power Systems as the fuel-cell power plant provider.
Read More →The raffish, worldwide movement known as tactical urbanism appears poised to take on a meatier role in improving transit in bus corridors. By providing low-cost, agile alternatives to lengthy street improvement processes, “tactical transit” has the ability to jumpstart virtuous cycles of increasing bus ridership by speeding up travel times, improving passenger experience, and enhancing overall perceptions of riding the bus.
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The innovative XE60 battery-electric bus, and its sister XHE60 hydrogen fuel-cell bus, are both powered by Siemens electric motors with rechargeable lithium-ion battery technology manufactured in Michigan.
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Open Source is a global movement that has gained acceptance as a way to produce high-quality software without the cost associated with commercial solutions.
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During a three-year period (210-2014), the number of shuttle vehicles on Bay Area roadways jumped by more than 60 percent and ridership increased by 45 percent.
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Technically, AC Transit drivers are supposed to park at a bus facility on the south side of town and take a shuttle to the BART station. They say that process can add up to an hour on each end of their day.
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