Sentences with phrase «emission bus fleet»

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The fact that the city's bus fleet still depends on diesel, Artaxo warned, creates an even worse health hazard in the shape of emissions of black carbon, one of the main components of soot and a pollutant that contributes to global warming.

The California Air Resources Board has extended deadlines for school districts to upgrade bus fleets to meet new emission - control standards.

Fleets that have deployed zero emission buses have seen a substantial reduction in operational and maintenance costs compared to conventional buses.

The advancement and subsequent increased adoption of zero emission buses into fleet operations has worked to continually accelerate the market for these buses.

BruinBus Transit Fleet Ditches Diesel and Goes All Clean Fuel Sep 27, 2016 UCLA Newsroom (Los Angeles, CA) UCLA became the first public university in California with electric buses today, when two zero - emissions electric buses replaced the last diesel buses in the BruinBus transit fleet.

A new report and recommendation recently released by King County Executive Dow Constantine shows how Metro Transit could completely transition the bus fleet to zero - emission powered by renewable energy between 2034 and 2040.

Long Beach to Build New Station to Showcase New Zero - Emissions Buses Jul 25, 2016 Press - Telegram (Long Beach, CA) Long Beach Transit's leadership plans to spend nearly $ 1.5 million to build on a new bus station to recharge and show off its incoming fleet of zero - emissioEmissions Buses Jul 25, 2016 Press - Telegram (Long Beach, CA) Long Beach Transit's leadership plans to spend nearly $ 1.5 million to build on a new bus station to recharge and show off its incoming fleet of zero - emissions bBuses Jul 25, 2016 Press - Telegram (Long Beach, CA) Long Beach Transit's leadership plans to spend nearly $ 1.5 million to build on a new bus station to recharge and show off its incoming fleet of zero - emissionsemissions busesbuses.

On June 3, 2016, during the 8th U.S. - China Transportation Forum in Los Angeles, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and China's Ministry of Transport (MOT) jointly announced the R2ZE Challenge and called to action cities / transit agencies to take measurable steps to reduce transit fleet bus greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions through increased deployment and operation of ZEBs.

These programs and initiatives have resulted in many demonstrations and deployments of zero emission buses in various public and private fleets, which have encouraged further purchasing and use of these buses while collecting data to further advance the technology.

School districts, fleet owners and operators, bus drivers, parents and students all have a role in helping to reduce diesel emissions from school buses.

The city's transit authority voted to convert its fleet of buses to zero emission technologies by 2030; UCS provided testimony, analysis, advocacy, and partnership with local organizations to support the decision.

This is in line with LA's recent decision to sign on to a commitment to only purchase zero - emission buses beginning in 2025, and the 25 new Proterra buses will represent a significant part of the city's current 359 - vehicle bus fleet.

The program encourages policies and practices to eliminate unnecessary public school bus idling, uses upgrading («retrofitting») buses that will remain in the fleet with better emission control technologies and / or fueling them with cleaner fuels as well as replaces the oldest buses in the fleet with new, less polluting buses.