The American Fuel Cell Bus. A new generation of powerful electric vehicles marries federal investments with domestic innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Transit continues to be in the forefront of the research, development, demonstration, and deployment of clean and energy efficient vehicle technologies.  Funding is available for projects that contribute significantly to furthering fuel cell...

• An Evaluation of the Market for Small-to-Medium-Sized Cutaway Buses: Bus Technologies and Testing Information (PDF)
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Rail Technology and Systems Information

The FTA Rail Infrastructure Technology program examines innovative technology solutions and practices on issues that affect facility design and construction, vehicles, transit operations, program...

Tunneling for transit projects is as much an art as a science. Variables affecting the design and construction of a project include predicting the behavior of ground mass during construction and the vagaries of ground-water hydrology. Predictive...

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FTA actively participates in the TRB Annual Meeting by development and presentation of sessions, research panel reviews, committee meetings, conferences and workshops and publications. 

FTA sponsors several public panel sessions at the...

To further its strategic research goals, FTA focuses on technological advances in bus and rail operations, safety features, fuel efficiencies and alternatives, intelligent transportation system applications, and information dissemination. These areas...

The Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Office of Research, Demonstration and Innovation (TRI) presented a Research Recipient Workshop on April 19, 2007, to inform TRI funding recipients of FTA’s Strategic Research Plan; requirements for...

Welcome to the Federal Transit Administration's Transit Research and Industry News Update, a report that provides a variety of information about transportation-related research and technology.

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