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St. Albert Transit
St. Albert Transit (StAT) is the public transportation system in the city of St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, which is located about northwest of downtown Edmonton. Scheduled bus service consists of local circuits within the community and express commuter routes to Edmonton. The city owns and maintains the vehicles but the drivers are privately contracted from Diversified Transportation. ''Handibus'' is the accessible service for those who cannot use regular transit buses. They operate within the city limits or provide travel to Edmonton for work or education purposes. Customers must be registered to use the service and all trips must be booked ahead of time. Facilities Transit Garage :Address: 235 Carnegie Drive :Coordinates: :Functions: office, garage and vehicle maintenance, ticket and pass sales. Renovations to the garage have been completed and it has been renamed the Dez Liggett Transit Facility. Dez Liggett is the founding Director of Transit in St. Albert and worked t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bus Service
Public transport bus services are generally based on regular operation of transit buses along a route calling at agreed bus stops according to a published public transport timetable. History of buses Origins While there are indications of experiments with public transport in Paris as early as 1662, there is evidence of a scheduled "bus route" from Market Street in Manchester to Pendleton in Salford UK, started by John Greenwood in 1824. Another claim for the first public transport system for general use originated in Nantes, France, in 1826. Stanislas Baudry, a retired army officer who had built public baths using the surplus heat from his flour mill on the city's edge, set up a short route between the center of town and his baths. The service started on the Place du Commerce, outside the hat shop of a M. Omnès, who displayed the motto ''Omnès Omnibus'' (Latin for "everything for everybody" or "all for all") on his shopfront. When Baudry discovered that passengers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant MacEwan College
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Transit Agencies In Alberta
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Public Transport In Canada
In the month of November 2015 ridership of Canadian large urban transit was 142.7 million passenger trips. The following is a list of public transit authorities in Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot .... References External links Ontario, Ministry of Transportation, Public Transit Systems in Ontario [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strathcona County Transit
Strathcona County Transit provides local, commuter, and school bus services to the community of Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada, which is east of Edmonton in Strathcona County. Transportation for elderly citizens and people with disabilities is provided by ''Mobility Bus'' within Sherwood Park and rural Strathcona County. Strathcona County is home to Alberta's first fleet of double-decker buses. It has purchased 24 double-decker buses over the past ten years using a combination of municipal, provincial, and federal funding. In , the system had a ridership of . Services Expansion of local scheduled weekday services was introduced on August 5, 2008 to provide bus service to newer areas and all-day routes within neighbourhoods. Dial-a-bus service takes over from the regular routes in the evening after 7 p.m. and on weekends. The transit system provides local bus service within Sherwood Park and express service to destinations like downtown Edmonton, Government Centre, University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leduc Transit
Leduc Transit is public bus system operated by the City of Leduc and Leduc County in the Edmonton Capital Region of Alberta, Canada. The service began on September 8, 2014. The capital investment was 5.16 million dollars CAD. GreenTRIP (Green Transit Initiatives Project), a provincial fund to assist public transportation projects, has contributed 3.44 million dollars CAD. The remainder will be divided 65-35 between the City and the County respectively. In , the system had a ridership of . LATS, Leduc Assisted Transportation Services, is the paratransit branch that provides door to door service to the service area and was taken over by the City of Leduc in February 2007 from a not-for-profit group. A person who has a cognitive and/or physical disability or is 65 or older is able to use this service. Facilities There are three park and rides located at the Leduc Recreation Centre, Alexander Arena and the Leduc County Centre. Transit garages The garages and operations centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton Transit Service
The Edmonton Transit Service (ETS) (previously known as Edmonton Transit System) is the public transit service owned and operated by the City of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. It operates Edmonton's bus and light rail systems. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . History Edmonton Transit Service began operations on 30 October 1908, under the name ''Edmonton Radial Railway'' (ERR), and alternatively as the ''Edmonton Radial Tramway''. Also in 1908, ERR acquired the ''Strathcona Radial Tramway Company Limited,'' and also began servicing the villages of North Edmonton and Calder. The transit service's name was changed to ''Edmonton Transportation Service'' in July 1946, but just a year later it was re-named to ''Edmonton Transit System.'' The service was re-named to ''Edmonton Transit Service'' in 2016. Former systems Streetcars The ''Edmonton Radial Railway'' (ERR) began operations in 1908, both in the City of Edmonton and the neighbouring City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Sask Transit
Fort Sask Transit (FST) is a public transit service in the city of Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. It operates two routes within the city, and a third route is contracted to Edmonton Transit Service (ETS) to connect with its service network. History Prior to the introduction of a local transit service, the Edmonton Transit Service (ETS) operated a commuter route between Fort Saskatchewan and Edmonton's Clareview Transit Centre. The commuter route 198 (known as 580 since 2022), was launched in 2004. Mid-day service was cancelled in 2005 due to low demand, and this route was only operated during peak hours. Fort Sask Transit (FST) was launched as a pilot program on April 26, 2014. It consisted of two routes, which provided coverage to most of the city's residential and commercial areas. Operation of the buses was contracted to local company Fort Taxi and Buslines. The buses were free to ride for their first five days of operation; fares were introduced on May 1, 2014. The pilot progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
STAT Trial Electric Accordion Bus
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Caterpillar Inc
Caterpillar Inc. (stock symbol CAT) is an American Fortune 100, ''Fortune'' 500 corporation and the world's largest construction-equipment manufacturer. In 2018, Caterpillar was ranked number 65 on the ''Fortune'' 500 list and number 238 on the Global ''Fortune'' 500 list. Caterpillar stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Caterpillar Inc. traces its origins to the 1925 merger of the Holt Manufacturing Company and the C. L. Best Tractor Company, creating a new entity, California-based Caterpillar Tractor Company. In 1986, the company reorganized itself as a Delaware corporation under the current name, Caterpillar Inc. It announced in January 2017 that over the course of that year, it would relocate its headquarters from Peoria, Illinois, to Deerfield, Illinois, scrapping plans from 2015 of building an $800 million new headquarters complex in downtown Peoria. Its headquarters are located in Irving, Texas, since 2022. The company also licenses and markets a li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Flyer Industries
New Flyer is a Canadian multinational bus manufacturer, specializing in the production of transit buses. New Flyer is owned by the NFI Group, a holding company for several bus manufacturers. New Flyer has several manufacturing facilities in Canada and the United States that produce the company's main product, the New Flyer Xcelsior family of buses. History New Flyer was founded by John Coval in 1930 as the Western Auto and Truck Body Works Ltd in Manitoba. The company began producing buses in 1937, selling their first full buses to Grey Goose Bus Lines in 1937, before releasing their Western Flyer bus model in 1941, prompting the company to change its name to Western Flyer Coach in 1948. In the 1960s, the company further focused on the urban transit bus market. In 1971, the then-financially struggling Western Flyer was sold to the Manitoba Development Corporation, an agency of the government of Manitoba, and renamed Flyer Industries Limited.Stauss, Ed (1988). ''The Bus World En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BYD K9
The BYD K-series bus (sometimes just referred to as the BYD ebus or BYD electric bus) are a line of battery electric buses manufactured by the Chinese automaker BYD, powered with its self-developed lithium iron phosphate battery, featuring a typical operating range of per charge under urban road conditions. It is available in several different nominal lengths, from and also as a (articulated) bus. The rear axle is powered by two electric traction motors; the battery capacity and motor power of each model varies depending on the nominal length and passenger capacity. History and development The first BYD battery electric K-series bus was manufactured on 30 September 2010 in Changsha city of Hunan province. Previously, BYD had built transit bus models like F3DM, F6DM and e6. K9 has a 12-meter body length and 18-ton weight with one-step low-floor interior. It is reportedly priced at 2–3 million yuan (S$395,000 S$592,600). The K-series bus has been sold to operators in Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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