Public Transportation News

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Beginning Sept. 30, customers can experience the new Airo trainsets on the Amtrak Cascades as Amtrak introduces its newest fleet into passenger service. Two trainsets, operating four daily trips, will begin carrying customers on launch day, marking the first phase of Airo’s introduction between Vancouver, B.C., Seattle, Portland and Eugene, Oregon. As the rollout continues, additional trainsets will enter service through early 2027 bringing more seats, modern amenit...

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Consor North America, Inc. (“Consor”), a leading engineering firm at the forefront of advancing intelligent, future-ready infrastructure, today announced the appointment of Mindy Shimanek as President and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”).Shimanek brings more than 30 years of experience building and leading engineering and consulting businesses. She spent nearly 20 years as co-founder of Structural Grace, an Arizona-based structural engineering firm that joined Consor in 20...

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World Kinect Corporation (NYSE: WKC), operating as World Fuel, today announced that Michael J. Kasbar will step down as Executive Chairman and that independent director Ken Bakshi has been appointed Chairman of the Board. The changes will be effective December 31, 2026. Kasbar co-founded Trans Tec Services in 1984, the marine fuel brokerage business whose acquisition laid the foundation for what we know today as World Fuel. Over more than four decades with the Company, i...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Atmus releases its 2025 Sustainability Report, highlighting progress in people, planet and governance initiatives....

TOYOTA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SkyDrive Inc. (“SkyDrive”), a leading compact eVTOL (*1) aircraft developer based in Japan, today announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Verty Co. Ltd. (“Verty”), a South Korean company building an integrated operational framework spanning flight operations, air traffic management and vertiport infrastructure. The agreement establishes a partnership to prepare for the introduction and commercial deployment of the SKYDRIVE (SD-05 mod...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sphere Entertainment Co. (NYSE: SPHR) and Lyft (Nasdaq: LYFT) announced today a multi-year marketing partnership, naming Lyft as an official rideshare partner of Sphere. The partnership provides Lyft with premier brand integrations and visibility across Sphere’s ecosystem, such as in-venue digital signage and out-of-venue signage, a dedicated Lyft pickup and drop-off zone within Sphere’s rideshare lot and in-app wayfinding. “At Sphere, we welcome guests from around t...

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bleu Garde, LLC, a science and technology company developing next-generation indoor air treatment technologies for pathogen reduction, environmental health and pandemic preparedness, today announced at the Builds Bio+ 5th Annual Philadelphia Life Science Symposium that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has registered Arresta® for use as a virucidal air treatment, air sanitizer and fungistat, including use in occupied indoor spaces in accordance with i...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HopSkipDrive, the leader in safe, fast, and simple supplemental student transportation, today debuted CareEngine™, the technology platform that powers every HopSkipDrive ride. Purpose built for the complexity of school transportation, CareEngine connects school districts, schools, families, riders, CareDrivers, and HopSkipDrive's Safe Ride Support® team before, during, and after every ride, so everyone gets the information they need at the right time. Districts tod...

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SafeRide Health, a leading technology-enabled medical transportation company focused on improving access to care, today celebrates its 10th anniversary, marking a decade of growth and innovation in NEMT. Founded in 2016 to address the gap between healthcare needs and access, SafeRide now operates one of the country's largest medical transportation platforms, managing more than 12 million rides a year across all 50 states for health plans and state programs. "We fou...

SAN FRANCISCO & MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ouster, Inc. (Nasdaq: OUST), a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI, today announced surging customer momentum for its Rev8 OS1 Max native color digital lidar, with payload integrators and drone OEMs across the aerial mapping market selecting the sensor for utility corridor inspection, infrastructure management, and defense applications.Aerial mapping teams have long worked around the same constraint: fly low enough to resolve a power line and...