First Student, Inc., First Transit, Inc., and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC today announced they have entered into a framework agreement and are working toward a joint venture to pursue the electrification of tens of thousands of school and public transportation vehicles across the U.S. and Canada. The collaboration brings together North America’s market leaders in […]
DATTCO, Inc., New England’s premier bus dealership, has added the Collins® Type A All-Electric School Bus to its inventory. Collins’ all-electric buses are environmentally friendly and offer up to 85% in operating and maintenance savings as well as an innovative structural design ensuring additional safety. The Collins electric school bus utilizes Motiv Power Systems™ Electric […]
Thomas Built Buses has announced that the WABCO OnGuardACTIVE collision mitigation system from ZF is now available as a factory-installed option for Saf-T-Liner C2 diesel school buses equipped with air disc brakes. OnGuardACTIVE is a radar-based collision mitigation system that enables collision warning, active braking and adaptive cruise control. Using forward-looking long-range radar to detect objects up to […]
Zonar, the leader in smart fleet technology, today announced three new solutions for pupil transportation offerings. Included in the offerings are the addition of student ridership alerts to the award-winning Zonar MyView™ app for real-time school bus fleet tracking, Zonar OnRoute™, a route agnostic turn-by-turn direction solution and Zonar Access™, a driver task and time management application. Together, […]
Zonar, the leader in smart fleet technology, and Transfinder, the national leader in intelligent transportation systems, have entered into a strategic partnership to equip school district bus fleets with smart fleet management and routing solutions. As a Zonar reseller in the United States and Canada under a new reseller agreement, Transfinder will sell Zonar solutions […]
This spring, Blue Bird will begin production of its propane and gasoline Vision school buses integrating Ford’s all-new 7.3L V8 engine and a purpose-built fuel system designed specifically for school-bus application. The advanced fuel system technology was developed by ROUSH CleanTech, the same company that has manufactured over 30,000 propane and gasoline fuel systems for […]
The Lion Electric Company (Lion), a leading manufacturer of all-electric medium and heavy-duty urban vehicles, announced today that Isabelle Adjahi has been appointed to the newly created role of Vice President, Investor Relations and Sustainable Development, effective January 11, 2021. In this new role, Ms. Adjahi will be responsible for developing and implementing an investor […]
CalAmp, a global technology solutions pioneer transforming the mobile connected economy, and its subsidiary Synovia Solutions, introduced Bus Guardian in summer 2020, a suite of digital solutions designed to help schools more safely and confidently return students to their classrooms. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made contact tracing one of the government’s […]
This month, the National Association for Pupil Transportation (NAPT) co-launched an educational streaming service with the Center for Effective School Operations’ (CESO) RethinkEDU platform – NAPT ACTS! School BUSRide spoke with Lance Libengood, president, and Luke Frederick , director of innovation, of CESO about the new service, its aim to put NAPT members back in […]
With the responsibility of moving more than 24,000 students each day in Maryland, safe and reliable communication is of paramount concern to transportation officials at Carroll County Public Schools. This year, despite COVID-19, the district’s transportation department began a major initiative to upgrade its communications system – which previously relied on drivers using traditional consumer […]