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[mtlurb]

Des autobus hybrides bientôt à Montréal et en Outaouais

Presse Canadienne (PC)
02/02/2007 07h49
À l'heure où les scientifiques de la planète négocient sur l'ampleur du réchauffement climatique, les sociétés de transport de Montréal et de l'Outaouais se préparent à intégrer des autobus hybrides - à l'électricité et au diesel - dans leurs flottes.


Une entente entre les deux ordres de gouvernement et les sociétés de transport est sur le point d'être conclue pour financer l'acquisition de ces autobus hybrides, selon des informations recueillies par Le Devoir.

Si les fonds sont débloqués par Québec et Ottawa, la Société de transport de Montréal espère faire l'acquisition de huit autobus hybrides d'ici la fin de l'année, tandis que la Société de transport de l'Outaouais compte en intégrer deux dans son service.

Ces autobus coûtent environ 700 000 $ chacun, comparativement à quelque 450 000 $ pour un autobus conventionnel. L'électricité est produite lors du freinage du véhicule et est utilisée surtout lors de l'accélération. Son efficacité est donc à son maximum lorsqu'il est employé sur un circuit où il y a de nombreux arrêts. Novabus estime que son modèle, du nom de LFS HEV, permet de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre dans une proportion allant jusqu'à 90 pour cent lorsqu'il est en mode hybride - à basse vitesse.

Déjà, la STO a pris possession du tout premier autobus hybride de la firme Novabus le mois dernier.

Le dossier est encore sur la table de travail du ministère des Transports, mais on n'est pas en mesure de préciser l'ampleur de la contribution financière en jeu pour le gouvernement du Québec, qui s'ajouterait à celle du fédéral.
L'entente pourrait également englober d'autres sociétés de transport.

[Kotar]

Students on strike, 600,000 missing rides is 300,000 each rush hour, about right?

[Chris1989]

There's no way 300,000 students were on strike, and even then, how many of them still took the metro, even though they weren't going to school? APTA showed that the AMT trains increased in rides, so I think they just screwed up the STM's numbers.

[pedepy]

when you go back to previous years you find that from one report to another, numbers don't even match when comparing the same months, albeit by a somewhat small margin. however, numbers for 2011 are way different in the 2012 report than the ones from 2011/2010 ...

either way, something's definitely up ..

[monctezuma]

Belle petite parodie par la STM en cette fin de semaine de l'automobile :

[pedepy]

saurait pris des filles aux couleurs de la stm autour du bus ou qqchose

[IluvMTL]

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/...686/story.html

Starting in 2014, Montreal public-transit users will start getting some useful information: the exact location of the next bus on their route and the time when it will show up.

The Société de transport de Montréal this week approved a $90.8-million contract to equip its 1,900 buses with a system that, among other things, monitors the location of buses using GPS and relays that data to users via the Web and smartphones.

On buses, coming stops will be announced via speakers and displayed on screens. Screens featuring the time of upcoming buses will also be installed at busy bus stops and some métro stations.

Many other cities, including Laval, have installed such systems to encourage people to use public transit by making trip-planning easier and reducing frustration over late buses.

In Montreal, the STM’s system will be called iBus.

The $90.8-million contract was given to INIT, a German firm with Montreal offices.

It will supply and install the GPS technology, software, speakers and screens, as well as new two-way radio equipment for bus drivers. Installation is to begin in late 2014 and will take about two years to complete, said STM spokesperson Odile Paradis.

The system will be phased in as installation progresses.

At the moment, the STM only provides scheduled bus times to passengers, via its website, smartphone apps and printed timetables.

With iBus, “passengers will know, in real-time, when the bus will come,” Paradis said.

“If there’s a schedule change, or if the bus is late because of a fire or some other reason, we can alert people.”

The STM says iBus will also allow it to better manage its fleet by, for example, reducing bus bunching — where two or more buses on the same route arrive at the same stop at the same time. If buses are bunched up, the operations centre can, for example, order one bus to skip a few stops and pick up riders waiting later on the route.

In addition, using new radio-communication equipment, “drivers will be able to alert us when buses are overcrowded so we can dispatch more buses,” Paradis said.

INIT was one of three companies that bid on the contract. The other two companies were disqualified.

One of the other bidders, Trapeze Group, has publicly complained about being shut out even though its bid came in lower than INIT’s.

Paradis defended the STM’s public-tender process.

“It wasn’t a question of price,” she said. The two other bidders “did not fulfill many of the eligibility requirements contained in the tender documents, so they were disqualified.”

The STM says the overall price tag for iBus will be $200.6 million. The INIT contract does not include the cost of renovating the STM’s bus-network operations centre and integrating iBus into the STM’s other systems.

Last year, STM buses travelled 85 million kilometres. Combined bus and métro ridership was 405 million.

ariga@montrealgazette.com

Twitter:@andyriga

[Davidbourque]

Voila une excellente utilisation de la technlogies !

Si la STM réussi bien son implémentation au prix annoncé, elle pourra faire la leçon au reste de l'administration publique qui a trop souvent tendance à se faire ****censuré**** par les consultant dans ce genre de projet.

[IluvMTL]

Check out Montreal's new métro cars

The STM is inviting the public to check out Montreal's new métro cars Friday and Saturday, Sept. 21 and 22, 2012, from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. The display on McGill College Ave., between de Maisonneuve Blvd. and Ste. Catherine St. W., is being held in tandem with the STM's In Town Without My Car.


Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/Photo...#ixzz277sVQusd

[FollowTheLeader]

far better design and look then Toronto's rocket train

[monctezuma]

Bien hâte de voir ça en vrai !