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Eliminate the blind spot once and for all

Mirror-based camera systems can help reduce transit bus side collisions By Paul Hughes The CMOS camera-based system shows tremendous potential to reduce transit bus side crashes. A camera-based system with a 100-degree angle lens can completely eliminate the blind zones on the both sides of transit buses. That is the finding by Center for Urban […]

ARBOC Mobility Nature Buses propel the Spirit of Alexandria Foundation

Leah and Craig Bennett established the Spirit of Alexandria Foundation to remember their daughter Alexandria Bennett, the late granddaughter of ARBOC Mobility president Jim Bartel. Their foundation builds on the passion Alexandria held for nature in her young age, and helps other children experience nature in the places Alexandria loved. Alexandria’s Nature Buses are central […]

Major changes liberate the small bus concept

ARBOC Mobility introduces its third variation on the theme —the Spirit of Liberty By David Hubbard Built on the same engineering and manufacturing principals, the differences between Spirit, Freedom and Liberty become eminently clear with the newest model from ARBOC Mobility, Middlebury, IN. The company kept this project particularly quiet during its development, sharing only […]

BC Transit drills down to grow service

Innovation comes from self-awareness gained by revisiting collected data By Mary Jo Wagner It is a familiar sight in every city: people at bus stops straining to spot their bus in the distance. Michael Grant, manager of monitoring and forecasting for BC Transit, Victoria, BC, Canada, was such a person when he first moved to […]

Proterra fulfills its mission as a mode of motion

The EcoRide™ BE 35 passes the test in public transit By Glenn Swain The acclaimed inventor Thomas Edison once defined electricity as a mode of motion, a description that could just as easily apply to Proterra, Inc, Greenville, SC, a manufacturer of advanced technology for heavy-duty transit buses powered solely by clean domestic fuels and […]

APTA report: Transit now a $55 billion industry

The American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) EXPO 2011, the association released an updated report making the case for investment in the public transportation industry by detailing the enormous growth in ridership, service provided and funding levels.

Millar: ‘This is as big as the APTA EXPO will ever be’

Preliminary numbers by APTA officials show nearly 15,000 attendees with over 6,300 exhibitors attended this week’s APTA EXPO at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

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First hydraulic hybrid transit bus unveiled amid hype

What’s being called the world’s first series hydraulic hybrid transit bus was unveiled Wednesday in Troy, MI.

A motorcoach livery brings it all in-house

The fairly recent trend of limousine companies to move to minibuses and coaches has not come as news to Andy and Laurie Bardar, owners of Corporate Coaches, Hollywood, FL.