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6 | Mass Transit | MassTransitmag.com | JUNE 2018
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Ad Index
8
Editor’s Notebook
The Price of Transit
38
Best Practices
Paratransit Innovation
& Efficiency
39
Classifieds
42
Social Hubs
Transit post highlights
from around the web
DEPARTMENTS
ONLINE EXCLUSIVES
The World Prepares
for InnoTrans 2018
For four days the world’s leading
trade show for transport technology
will be transforming the Berlin
Exhibition Grounds into the place
to be for the entire industry.
MassTransitmag.com/12411240
Advertiser’s Index
Alpina Manufacturing ................. 40
Alstom ............................................... 2
AngelTrax ......................................... 17
ARBOC Specialty Vehicles ...........28
Brookville Equipment Corp. .........19
Complete Coach Works ..................9
Construction Polymers
Technologies ..................................33
ETA Transit Systems ......................15
Freedman Seating Company ......43
Kinkisharyo International, LLC ....16
LECIP .................................................18
LTK Engineering Services .............24
MAC Products ................................... 3
Messe Berlin GmbH ........................31
Noble Pine Products .....................36
ORX ..................................................44
Palram Inc. .......................................18
Penta Coroporation ......................29
Plasser-American Corp. ................23
PPG Global LLC ...............................14
Progress Rail Services Corp. ........25
Public Transportation Safety
International ..................................35
Railquip Inc. .................................... 37
Siemens Industry, Inc...................... 5
Slec, Inc. ...........................................32
STV ................................................... 27
Vericom LLC ....................................36
Yokohama Industries.......................7
Big Data Will Raise the
Bar for Rail Services
We have a generation that demands
to know what is happening in
real-time and the technology
for rail providers to deliver on
this expectation is there today.
MassTransitmag.com/12410174
VTA Pilots a Smart Charging System
A four-year “Vehicle to Grid
Integration” project will help
VTA move to its goal of a fleet
of zero-emission vehicles.
MassTransitmag.com/12409074
Demand Charges, and How
to Mitigate Them
Lowering transit system utility
bills starts with understanding
how they’re calculated.
MassTransitmag.com/12408160
The Right Time to be in Transit
While taxi drones and hyperloop
often dominate headlines, the
importance of bus transportation
was renewed while addressing
the additional evolving role
of transit agencies.
MassTransitmag.com/12412059
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