City of Lincoln to receive $2.6m grant to improve buses

US senator for Nebraska Deb Fischer confirmed the city of Lincoln will receive a $2.6 million grant to update its buses and related infrastructure. Fischer, a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, says the grant will help the city “improve and update its transit system, ensuring residents can travel places more safely and efficiently”. The city will use the grant to purchase electric buses, charging stations and other infrastructure. The grant is being provided by the Federal Transit Administr
August 12, 2019 Read time: 1 min

US senator for Nebraska Deb Fischer confirmed the city of Lincoln will receive a $2.6 million grant to update its buses and related infrastructure.
 
Fischer, a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, says the grant will help the city “improve and update its transit system, ensuring residents can travel places more safely and efficiently”.
 
The city will use the grant to purchase electric buses, charging stations and other infrastructure.

The grant is being provided by the 2023 Federal Transit Administration’s Low- or No-Emission Vehicle Programme, which offers funding for the purchase or lease of zero-emission or low-emission buses.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Pioneering new passenger information systems
    February 3, 2012
    Chicago pioneers new passenger information initiatives. By David Crawford
    Read More
  • Cities get road priorities right
    March 22, 2022
    Cities including Paris, Milan and London have all announced serious expansions to their bicycling infrastructure over the last few years. The era of active travel is here, finds Alan Dron
    Read More
  • EU funding for transport research projects
    May 11, 2015
    The EU's TEN-T programme has awarded 75 research and innovation projects a total of US$540 million in research grants, aiming to make Europe's transport systems greener, safer, and more competitive. All transport modes are covered including road, rail, water and air transport, as well as environmentally friendly vehicles, intelligent transport systems (ITS) and improvements to logistics and freight systems. Numerous projects are concerned with sustainable urban mobility, such as the US$4.5 million Sil
    Read More
  • USDOT Connected Vehicle Reference Implementation Architecture workshop
    May 11, 2015
    The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) is hosting the fourth in a series of interactive workshops to discuss and seek feedback on its Connected Vehicle Reference Implementation Architecture (CVRIA) efforts. The 3-day training workshop is designed to bring together state and local government stakeholders who are planning connected vehicle deployments, device manufacturers who need to know the overall scope of the architecture, researchers and academics, and standards developers. The workshop will be
    Read More

Highlighted Content