Mass Transit articles

Recent articles from Mass Transit

Carter & Burgess Inc.(People in the News)
July 1, 2007... William Lieberman has joined Carter & Burgess Inc. as a program manager in the Transportation Programs Division of the Sacramento office. Lieberman has more than 40 years experience in transportation planning for transit, bicycles and pedestrians; traffic calming; roadway system...

SunLine Transit Agency.(People in the News)
July 1, 2007... SunLine Transit Agency recently announced Christopher Mitchell as director of finance. Mitchell began his accounting career at the Thousand Palms-based transit operation in 1997, working his way up to the post of accounting manager. He left the agency in 2004 in order to complete the...

Highway-rail grade crossing safety: making railroads safer means stopping people from crossing the tracks.
July 1, 2007... It is the telephone call that every railroad operating official hates to receive and the radio call that train crews fear that they may have to make on every trip--the report of a highway-rail grade crossing collision. Unfortunately, on average, several such calls are placed every day...

Refrigerant use in mass transit.(Maintenance Matters)
July 1, 2007... That certain refrigerants have been or are being phased out due to damage to the ozone layer should be old news. The Montreal Protocol was signed in 1987-20 years ago. Refrigerant-22 is one of the most popular refrigerants, used in everything including passenger transportation. It will...

Futuristic transit.(Editor's Notebook)
July 1, 2007... The first time I saw photos of Springfield's EmX line, I couldn't believe what I saw. A bus with doors on both sides like a light rail train?! How cool is that! As we sat down to plan out our cover stories for the year, I knew that we had to take a closer look at this new innovation....