Transbus Program
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title:
Transbus Program
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Transbus was announced in December 1970 as a United States Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) program to develop improvements to existing transit bus design; at the time, the US bus market was dominated by the GM New Look and Flxible New Look buses, and bus ridership was declining. The improvements had been suggested earlier by the National Academy of Sciences in 1968 to improve operating costs, reduce pollution, and stimulate ridership, and included innovations such as a low floor
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wiki
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Plan to improve US transit bus design
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transbus_Program
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2023-10-01T16:48:04Z
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