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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
Earlier this year, BUSRide launched a sister digital-only publication, BUSRide Maintenance, to connect directly with our readers more closely focused on the best bus and coach maintenance management processes and practices.
BUSRide Maintenance is the only digital magazine that offers in-depth, hands on coverage of bus maintenance topics for management, technicians and other personnel discharging the maintenance function for motorcoach, transit, school bus and small bus fleets.
What’s being called the world’s first series hydraulic hybrid transit bus was unveiled Wednesday in Troy, MI.
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.
The search is on for the best and brightest bus wrap ideas in the industry. The 2011 BUSRide MotorVision Competition, sponsored in part by OAI Corp., will help us find the best looking rolling billboards, moving murals and free-wheeling creativity on wheels.
In the path of Hurricane Irene, Randolph and other towns in Vermont and other New England states were hammered by the fierce winds and drenching rain.