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Russian
self-driving shuttle bus ready for testing in 2017
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NAMI, a Russian government-funded automotive research organisation, has
teamed up with Yandex - the company operating Russia’s largest search
engine, as well as Russian truck maker Kamaz and Daimler to build a
driverless shuttle bus. The bus has already been displayed at the Moscow
International Automobile Salon and tests on closed routes are planned for
the next year.
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Smart Move award winner, Digital Matatus, creates
pan-African blueprint for urban transport
Digital Matatus – IRU’s Smart Move Award winner for ‘best
innovation’ – reports on the successes of mobile phone crowdsourcing
data to generate transport infrastructure and policy.
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Public transport operator
Sales-Lentz in Luxembourg has ordered four Volvo 7900 Electric buses. The
buses will operate in the city of Differdange. Traffic start is planned for
the second quarter of 2017.
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Solaris, the biggest
Polish bus manufacturer, has won contracts with two public transport
operators in Oslo to supply a total of 99 Urbino buses. All buses will run
on latest generation biofuel - Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO).
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Coach users now have the possibility to pay for their journeys using
virtual money when travelling in France with coach operator Isilines.
Isilines, a division of Transdev, has been accepting payments in bitcoins
since the beginning of August.
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Fuel-cell buses are an
attractive solution for public transport – they can travel long,
cost-effective shifts before being refuelled quickly at bus depots, yet are
quiet and produce no carbon or particulate emissions, minimising their
environmental and health impacts.
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The world’s first
elevated transit bus was tested in the Chinese city of Qinhuangdao in Hebei
province. The 2m-high and 22m-long bus runs on electricity and can carry up
to 300 passengers while cars can drive underneath it.
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American Bus Association’s
Women in Buses Award recognises those individuals or companies that can
demonstrate having impacted the advancement and the promotion of women in
the coach industry.
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