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▶ The Corpus Christi Regional Transportation
Authority is providing an updated
look to its vanpool, a program providing
groups of people to utilize a carpool service
originating or arriving in the CCRTA
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urbanized area.
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▶ Palmetto Breeze launched a new
mobile ticketing application for riders, the
BreezePass.
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▶ Following a formal bid recompete process,
Dallas Area Rapid Transit renewed
its contract with AlphaVu to provide social
media data mining and social listening
services for another two years, with two
additional option years available.
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▶ Stertil-Koni announced it will again
sponsor National Lift Week, which will
take place October 8 - 13 in venues
across North America to advance safety
and performance.
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▶ Mountain Line registered another year
of record ridership, surpassing Fiscal Year
2017 ridership by more than 17 percent.
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▶ BYD Canada has been awarded orders
for nine long-range, zero-emission,
battery-electric buses by the Société de
transport de Montréal and the Réseau de
transport de Longueuil.
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▶ Transit riders on the BaltimoreLink system
will see new additions to the Maryland
Transit Administration’s bus fl eet as
70 clean-diesel New Flyer XDE40 Xcelsior
buses hit the streets this summer.
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▶ The Conference of Minority Transit
Offi cials announced Palm Tran Executive
Director Clinton B. Forbes as winner of
the prestigious Gerald Anderson Service
Award during the 2018 Industry Awards
Banquet in Baltimore, Maryland.
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People in the News
Paul Brown John DiValentino Luke Olson Sarah G. Boden Mark Elias
Bombardier
Transportation
Bombardier Transportation
announced senior
rail industry leader
Paul Brown as the new
managing director
for its operations in
Australia (ad interim).
As managing director,
Brown will focus on
the competitiveness of
Bombardier’s operations
in Australia with priorities
including strengthening
stakeholder
relations, delivering
projects and services to
the highest standards,
as well as business development
and securing
new business in a highly
competitive market.
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com/12425316
Urban Engineers
Urban Engineers
announced John DiValentino,
P.E., has been
promoted to vice president
and director of
strategic operations.
DiValentino has been
with the fi rm for 18 years
and previously served as
the fi rm’s deputy director
for facility construction
management. This new
role comes with the
responsibility of planning
and implementing the
fi rm’s overarching
development goals and
vision across the fi rm.
DiValentino will work
with regional leaders,
practice leaders, and
corporate development
to best position Urban.
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LORAM Maintenance
of Way Inc.
LORAM Maintenance
of Way Inc. appointed
Luke Olson to the position
of vice president
sales & marketing.
In his new role, Olson
will have responsibility
for all aspects of
LORAM’s contract services
sales and marketing
eff orts, along with new
and existing product
development initiatives.
He started his career with
the company in 2003.
In his most recent role,
director rail grinding.
He was instrumental in
the development of the
“Next Generation” 400
Series Rail Grinder
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DemandTrans
DemandTrans announced
the appointment
of Sarah G. Boden
to president and chief
operating offi cer.
Boden, currently CTO,
will oversee day-to-day
operations of the company
and continue to drive
the technology strategy.
She has held leadership
positions in companies
large and small, and has
deep experience in the
transportation industry
as the president of the
Transit Division of DDS
Wireless and the deputy
executive director and
COO of Access Services
of Los Angeles. She began
her career in public
accounting at Deloittle.
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com/12423901
First Transit
First Transit announced
the appointment of
Mark Elias as region vice
president of operations.
In this role Elias will
focus on operations in
the Northwest region.
He has more than 15
years of transportation
experience in areas such
as operations management,
fi nance, legal, labor
negotiations, technology
innovation, customer engagement
and leadership.
He most recently was
chief operations offi cer at
Tire Disposal & Recycling
and prior to that, was
with MV Transportation
Inc. He has a bachelor’s
degree from the University
of Oregon.
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THE PILOT project will begin in the
summer 2018 for a period of 12
months, including 8 months at the
service of citizens.
First American-Made Autonomous
Vehicle Permanently Deployed
on Open Roads in Canada
▶ Keolis Canada and the city of Candiac,
with the manufacturer NAVYA, fi nancial
support from the Québec Government,
the collaboration of Propulsion Québec,
the Cluster for Electric and Smart Transportation
and the Technopôle IVÉO,
announced the fi rst long-term
demonstration project of an electric
autonomous shuttle on public roads in
Canada on a 2-km route.
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