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Why Seatbelts in School Buses are a Bad Idea

By: Aidan Bishop, Journalist
Why don't school busses have seatbelts? Well there are actually a lot of reasons why they would do more harm than good.
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Red bus lane for Battery Street by Seattle Department of Transportation is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

What Is Transit Signal Priority?

By: Alex Bundics, Journalist
Transit Signal Priority is a code that will adjust the cycles of traffic signals through various strategies to reduce the amount of dwell time along a given bus route.
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Autonomous Shuttle Pilot Project by paulkimo90 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Relay: Virginia’s First Autonomous Shuttle

By: Alex Bundics, Journalist
The result of this idea and several years of design and research was one small blue bus called Relay.
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REX - Richmond Highway Express. by BeyondDC is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Bus Rapid Transit Is Coming To Fairfax County, VA

By: Alex Bundics, Journalist
Fairfax County has begun designing a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line that will provide service along Richmond Highway.
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File:WMATA New Flyer Xcelsior XE40.jpg by MJW15 is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

More And More DC-Area Bus Systems Are Moving Toward Electric Fleets

By: Alex Bundics, Journalist
Even bus systems that are yet to introduce electric buses to their fleets are expected to begin to do so in the near future, and many systems already have hybrid electric buses, which is an important step toward fully electric buses.
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Xcelsior Charge XE60 On-Route Charging Demo by Metro Atlanta Transit Productions is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

First Level-4 Autonomous Heavy-Duty Bus

By: Alex Bundics, Journalist
Years of research by various companies and billions of dollars of investments have lead to New Flyer's bus, which is currently the most advanced autonomous bus. The bus is covered in cameras, laser lidar sensors, and radar technology.
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https://www.wired.com/story/self-driving-school-bus/

The Future Of School Buses Is Here

By: Anthony Cayetano, Journalist
Programmers are designing a buses where the buses are able to auto move. buses provide more than just a new look they also provide for your phones.
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Bio Bus

Bio Bus

Can you think of a bus that is powered by human waste? I know it may sound nasty, but isn't it a great source for keeping our environment clean. Can you think of a world filled with trees and flowers everywhere?...

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