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The refurbishment will add approximately 15 years of additional useful life to the vehicles, while new vehicles are typically built to last 30 years. Siemens will also modernize the vehicle's communications, event recorders and auxiliary power systems.
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The fatal accident rate for curbside carriers from January 2005 to March 2011 was 7 times that of conventional bus operations: 1.4 fatal accidents per 100 vehicles for curbside carriers compared with 0.2 fatal accidents per 100 vehicles for conventional scheduled carriers.
Read More →Safety investigators found that Autobuses Zacatecanos failed to ensure that its vehicles were systematically and properly inspected, repaired and maintained. Onsite inspections of the carrier’s four buses revealed such numerous and serious safety violations that all four vehicles were immediately declared out of service.
Read More →At the event, which took place at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Black Fire Innovation, one of the two 40-foot vehicles was unveiled.
Read More →The Provincial Government of Mendoza purchased 11 vehicles from San Diego MTS for $3.3 million, signing a contract in September 2010. Four light rail vehicles were recently unveiled on the soon-to-open Metrotranvía Mendoza light rail system.
Read More →ViaVan has provided more than 7M rides in London and saved 2M vehicle miles by pooling multiple passengers into shared vehicles.
Read More →Features of the new vehicles include low floors, an electric air conditioning system and a rear facing wheelchair securement option.
Read More →Ryan Polanco will oversee the company’s marketing strategies and executions, as well as work cross-departmentally to project manage the successful creation, development, and launch of new vehicles, charging, and software solutions.
Read More →Twenty-seven light rail vehicles will be retrofitted with an ultra capacitor-based, energy storage system, which captures and stores regenerative braking energy as it is generated, uses the stored energy for acceleration and releases surplus energy to other vehicles on the system as needed.
Read More →Completed implementation on all Sounder commuter rail vehicles that run between Lakewood and Everett.
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