Transdev Canada secures $6 million investment for electrification of school bus fleet
Transdev Canada secures a $6 million investment to electrify its school bus fleet in Quebec, advancing sustainable transportation solutions in the region.
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Transdev Canada secures a $6 million investment to electrify its school bus fleet in Quebec, advancing sustainable transportation solutions in the region.
RTC Quebec's 2023 budget will focus on advancing the electrification of its public transit fleet, expanding its Flexibus service and deploying additional e-bikes as part of the third season of it bike-share service.
Following the success of the second season of the àVélo e-bike scheme, RTC Quebec is analysing feedback from customers in order to further develop its service offering.
For the latest instalment of Intelligent Transport’s exclusive COVID-19 recovery series, Valérie Racine, Director of Network Development, Customer Experience and Communications at RTC Quebec, shares the difficulties that the authority had faced amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and how deploying innovative solutions - such as mobile ticketing, new fare passes, shared…
As part of its Universal Accessibility Development Plan, RTC Quebec will be making five more of its routes accessible by August 2022, with over 60 new accessible stops to be deployed in the future.
The new feature will provide Transport adapté customers with a wealth of real-time information, such as the transit vehicles' current location and whether or not a customer is next in line to board the vehicle.
As part of its commitment to prioritise the needs of customers, RTC Québec’s Flexibus service will be deployed gradually across seven targeted areas within the province of Quebec by 2025.
As part of its 2018-2027 Strategic Plan, Le Réseau de transport de la Capitale is set to acquire 30 electric buses by 2026, marking the beginning of its transition to the operation of a fully electric bus fleet.
The Canadian city of Laval hopes to fit all of its buses with the new contactless payment technology by the summer of 2021.
Approximately 74,000 households were surveyed, which were said to amount to the 360,000 daily trips made by the 170,000 people that make up the households.
STO has endorsed Transit to be its official mobile app for checking real-time information, looking up schedules, and planning trips across the transport network.
Keolis Canada’s 14 electric school buses will travel 448,000km per year and transport 770 students from the Commission scolaire des Affluents school board.