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King County Metro Transit’s prototype battery-dominant electric bus should be delivered in late 2012. The agency plans to buy one or two vehicles plus one or two charging stations to test their suitability for the transit system.
Read More →As part of the new deal, DART and Titan will be introducing new media formats, including "Station Dominations," "Bus Headliners" and "Michelangelos" — media featured on the ceilings of buses — to the system.
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SMART entered into a piggy-back agreement with the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority which had an existing bus buy contract with New Flyer enabling SMART to receive the buses approximately nine months sooner.
Read More →Automatic Vehicle Locator units will be deployed on 164 buses across 72 routes. Per a five-year contract, the company will receive approximately $770,000 in revenue in the first year, which includes hardware, setup and service, and approximately $221,000, primarily as service revenue, for each of the remaining four years.
Read More →Projected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 250 million metric tons and save 500 million barrels of oil over the lives of the vehicles produced within the program's first five years.
Read More →Over the past two years, Penn Transit purchased eight new low-emission vehicles: four buses capable of running on both ultra-low sulfur diesel and biodiesel fuels, and four propane-powered shuttle vans.
Read More →Providing an incentive to use inner-city transit will help reduce traffic on campus, free up space for cyclists and pedestrians and reduce the university's carbon footprint, officials say.
Read More →EMT will be one of three companies clients can choose for ambulatory transportation as part of PSTA's Demand Response Transportation program, which provides services for people who are unable to independently use the regular, accessible PSTA buses because of their disability.
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Krapf Coaches receives 2 new A300L low-floor transit coaches, while Windstar Lines takes delivery of a new T2145 luxury coach with three-point seat belts.
Read More →In addition to Breeze buses, First Transit plans to install GreenRoad in its paratransit buses in the near future.
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