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6 | Mass Transit | MassTransitmag.com | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018
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Ad Index
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Editor’s Notebook
The Leadership
Century
70
Best Practices
Implementing
Predictive
Maintenance
72
Classifieds
74
Social Hubs
Transit post
highlights from
around the web
DEPARTMENTS
ONLINE EXCLUSIVES
The Passenger of Tomorrow:
A Need for Options
Remaining agile to provide the best
flexibility to passengers is key to
making transit the mode of choice.
www.MassTransitmag.com/12428542
Advertiser’s Index
AC Transit District ..................... 21
Accenture .................................. 30
AECOM .......................................44
Alpina .........................................72
AngelTrax ................................... 19
Avail Technologies .................. 55
Axis Communications ............. 61
Bombardier Transportation .....9
Brookville Equipment Corp.34
Burns Engineering ...................69
BYD America ...............................2
Central Ohio Transit Authority 31
CHK America .............................47
City View Bus Sales & Service 73
Clean Energy Fuels .................. 63
Complete Coach Works ...........67
Ecolane ....................................... 16
EnerSys Inc. ................................57
ETA Transit Systems ............... 62
Freedman Seating Company . 41
Genetec Inc. .............................. 59
Graffi ti Shield ........................... 39
InfraStrategies, LLC ................50
INIT ............................................. 38
Irwin Car & Equipment ........... 65
LECIP ...........................................35
LTK Engineering Services ....... 38
MAC Products ...........................49
Metro Transit .............................35
Motor Coach Industries .............5
New Flyer of America ..............22
Noble Pine Products ............... 70
Nova Bus Corp. ..........................33
ORX .............................................76
Palram ....................................... 45
Peerless-AV ...............................37
Progress Rail ...............................71
Proterra .....................................20
Protran Technology.................. 51
Q’Straint .....................................27
Radio Engineering Industries .75
Railquip ......................................23
Rosco..........................................68
San Diego Metropolitan Transit 25
Slec ............................................. 54
Stantec ...................................... 42
Tolar Mfg. ..................................46
Transdev North America ......... 15
TriMet ...........................................17
USSC Group ..............................40
Vapor Bus International ............ 7
Vericom LLC .............................. 45
WMATA ......................................44
WSP......................................29, 53
Yokohama Industries.................3
Making the Switch to
Ethernet Train Networks
Legacy technology
can’t keep up with
today’s processing
demands. See
why more train
manufacturers and
system integrators
are moving toward
Ethernet to bridge
the gap — and what
comes next.
www.MassTransitmag.
com/12425514
Continental Embedded
TPSM Technology Now
Available as Factory
Install Option
Previously available
only as an aftermarket
solution for monitoring
tire temperature
and pressure, tiremounted
TPMS
sensors are starting
to roll out from the
Continental factory.
www.MassTransitmag.
com/12428545
Inside Metra ’s
47th/49th St Facility
Since 2010, 214
passenger cars have
been overhauled at
the facility, extending
the life of each railcar
by 10 to 14 years.
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