The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) today awarded 26 U.S. small businesses a total of $11,850,000 as part of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. Each year, the SBIR Program solicits proposals from American small businesses to improve various aspects of the national transportation system. SBIR-awarded contracts to qualifying small businesses spur research and commercialization […]

BYD (Build Your Dreams) is supporting the career development of women in the transportation sector with team members serving in committee leadership positions and through scholarship donations. Jenny Jing, project development manager for BYD’s SkyRail program, was recently named as co-chairwoman of the WTS (Women’s Transportation Seminar) Annual Scholarship and Awards Dinner. The dinner is […]

Complete Coach Works (CCW) is pleased to announce its contract to provide two remanufactured Zero Emission Propulsion System (ZEPS) buses for Josephine Community Transit in Grants Pass, Oregon. Each ZEPS vehicle will include a state-of-the-art, all-electric drive system with 373kWh battery pack, a battery management system, and inverters. The system will feature a new high-efficiency, […]

New Flyer of America Inc., a subsidiary of NFI Group Inc. (NFI), recently announced that the Fort Worth Transportation Authority (Trinity Metro) has awarded New Flyer a contract for four heavy-duty, thirty-five-foot Xcelsior CHARGE™ battery-electric buses. The zero-emission buses (ZEBs) support a new route called The Dash, a zero-emission service connecting Downtown Fort Worth with […]

Complete Coach Works (CCW) recently announced it will showcase a fully electric bus, built for TransIT Services of Frederick County, on Capitol Hill in honor of the Bus Coalition’s event, “This is Not Your Parents’ Bus.” In response to the industry’s increased emphasis on sustainability, CCW has developed a cost-effective and viable alternative to fossil […]

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a total of $300 million in federal funding allocations to three rail transit projects in Arizona, California, and Washington. Funding is provided through FTA’s Capital Investment Grants (CIG) Program. FTA is allocating $100 million in appropriated Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 CIG funding for each […]