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Federal Transit Administration awards nearly $55M for low and no emission buses The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has announced awards to 10 project teams to deploy 55 low and no emission fuel cell, battery electric and electric hybrid buses in neighborhoods from Stockton, California to Canto, Ohio. 38 of the 55 will be either electric or fuel cell powered and produce zero tailpipe emissions. “This critical FTA program will help spur the growth of the advanced tech bus industry in the United States, which is a crucial part of the effort to meet our national air quality and climate challenges,” said CALSTART President and CEO John Boesel. “We are especially pleased to be working with three of the FTA awardees and helping to make zero buses competitive with existing diesel technology,” he continued. Newly established under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), the FTA’s LoNo program focuses on deploying the cleanest and most energy-efficient U.S.-made transit buses designed to cut carbon 8 pollution and other traditional pollutants. Grants from the LoNo program help transit agencies integrate more of these cuttingedge buses into their fleets. The FTA provided a total of $54,469,249 in total for 10 projects nationwide. FTA received 50 project proposals requesting a total of $200 million. See the FTA’s web site for more details: http://www.fta.dot.gov/ grants/15926_16268.html CALSTART will work with three partner transit agencies on projects totaling nearly $24 million. The organization will assist its partners by providing various consulting services, such as data collection, analysis, surveys, specification alignment, and transit bus acquisition services. CALSTART partners awarded grants include the following projects: • Stark Area Regional Transit Authority (SARTA) will receive $8,877,405 to purchase and deploy five hydrogen fuel cell buses from the Integrated Product Team of Ballard Power Systems, BAE Systems, and ElDorado National. The agency will use the new zero-emission buses in a variety of operating conditions, including congested downtown streets, major urban roads and rural highways. SARTA provides more than 2.7 million rides per year throughout Stark County, Ohio, including servicing Canton, where the NFL Hall of Fame is located. • SunLine Transit Agency will receive $9,803,860 to build and deploy five hydrogen electric hybrid fuel cell buses. BAE Systems, Ballard Power Systems and ElDorado National will team up to build the new zero-emission buses. This project will increase SunLine’s current fleet of hydro-
gen electric hybrid fuel cell buses and allow the agency to offer expanded transit service in the Coachella Valley area of Southern California. • San Joaquin Regional Transit District (RTD) will receive $ 4,702,011 and purchase five Proterra battery-electric buses and a charging station. RTD, the transit provider for Stockton and San Joaquin County in California, plans to add the zero-emission buses and charging station to expand service and increase capacity at the Stockton Downtown Transit Center, which is the transfer point for nearly all of the RTD’s routes. Under a previous grant from the California Energy Commission the RTD purchased its first two zero emission electric buses. About CALSTART CALSTART and its 140+ member companies are dedicated to expanding and supporting a clean transportation industry that cleans the air, creates jobs and economic opportunities, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and secures our transportation energy future. For further information visit www.calstart.org/ International training essential to global stability and security By Scott Seavers, Salient Federal Solutions As long as there are people on this great planet, there will be conflict and a natural tendency toward instability, regionally at a minimum. While we can’t change that, we can set the best conditions possible to avoid escalation and to minimize the periods of insecurity and security assistance, specifically international training, plays a critical role in the overall outcome. The U.S. military is shrinking, the U.S. alone cannot maintain global stability, and security assistance missions are some of the first cuts as the U.S. defense budget wanes. While cutting U.S. defense budgets is a stark reality of our time, cutting security assistance runs counter to President Obama’s recently released 2015 National <strong>Security</strong> Strategy which highlights the need for the U.S. to “lead with capable partners” and acknowledges the fact that global problems require U.S. participation, but that few can be 9 solved by the U.S. alone. While a robust Department of Defense is absolutely essential and a critical component in ensuring national and global security, increasing partner nation capability is a costeffective force multiplier. Now is hardly the time to pull back from training our partners to defend themselves and to function effectively in coalitions. Language and cultural differences make training together far from easy, yet militaries have been training together for centuries. Foreign militaries that can defend their homelands autonomously and contribute to coalitions enhance global security exponentially. We are all firsthand witnesses to the results effective international training can attain. More on page 26
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