By John-Paul Paonessa, Marketing Manager, Freedman Seating Company From flooring to HVAC, cameras to wheelchair lifts, there is no shortage of must-have components to consider when purchasing a bus. Whether propane or electric, shuttle or coach — passenger needs should be heavily considered when it comes to the bus’s interior, perhaps nothing more than seating.…
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Contributing article provided by Marcel Maes, CEO of Maestronic® A standardized IT architecture specification with open interfaces enabling interoperability for on-board and back-office IT systems in public transport is essential. ITxPT exists to provide those specifications to ensure smooth integration between vendor IT solutions. This open IT standard enables transit operators to select the best…
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Today’s bus is getting more sophisticated all the time. But in a machine comprising of hundreds of complex parts and components certain elements are afforded more consideration than others. Like all complex machines, however, if one part isn’t working properly everything else can fall apart pretty quickly. It’s probably fair to say that flooring isn’t…
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By Victor S. Parra, Contributor Running a private motorcoach company is a capital-intensive business. Balancing the need to upgrade your equipment to meet customer demands against high interest rates while still keeping debt under control, is always a major challenge for our industry. Recently, the Wall Street Journal ran a front-page piece entitled, “Bankruptcies Increase…
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By Harrell Kerkhoff Busline Magazine Editor Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way. Those are the words of Tom Freston, co-founder of MTV — words that have proven true time and time again. Case-in-point is Driverseat, a transportation franchise headquartered in Kitchener, ON, that has worked…
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By Harrell Kerkhoff Busline Magazine Editor Cooperation between two cities in neighboring states and a university continues to drive growth for a public transportation system located in the Upper Great Plains. Cities Area Transit (CAT), headquartered in Grand Forks, ND, also services neighboring East Grand Forks, MN, as well as the University of North Dakota,…
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