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PROGNOSIS * USA

* Colorado / USA - Report: More than 75,000 Electric Drive Buses Will Be on Roads Worldwide by 2018

(Photo from Inhabitat - South Korea Unveils World’s First Commerical Electric Bus)
Boulder,COL,USA -Pike Research (PR), by Richard Martin -August 22, 2012: -- No other category of heavy duty vehicles has seen more adoption of electric drivetrains than buses. In North America, hybrid models have captured as much as 40 percent of new transit bus purchases in recent years. Electric drivetrains – whether for hybrid systems, battery electric, or fuel cell – hold appeal for the bus market for many of the same reasons they do for light duty vehicles: the promise of moving away from oil, efficiency gains, limiting greenhouse gas emissions, and, in many cases, lower operating costs. According to a recent report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant’s Energy Practice, the global market for electric drive buses is expected to grow steadily over the next six years, with a compound annual growth rate of 26 percent from 2012 to 2018. By 2018, the report concludes, more than 75,000 electric drivetrain buses will be in service around the world...

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PLANNING * Australia - To boost our use of public transport

Queensland,Australia -The Sunshine Coast Daily, by Carolyn Tucker -3 December 2007: -- The Sunshine Coast is on the cusp of a new era, set to undergo a significant transformation within the next two decades... It will evolve from a string of urban and town centres bordered by open space and rural properties, to a sprawling minor metropolis, with competing central business districts springing up in Maroochydore and Kawana... By 2026, the government estimates there will be an additional 500,000 individual trips within the region each day and an efficient public transport system will be vital, not only to reduce harmful emissions but to ensure traffic gridlock is not part of the package... As a result, it is pumping $6.4 billion into transport infrastructure over the next 20 years, including a series of major initiatives aimed at prising us out of our cars and on to buses, trains, bikeways and even hoofing it to nearby destinations...(Video from You Tube, by higgypopuk -March 21, 2007: My guide to the perfect holiday in Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia)

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Prognosis * India - Buses to remain main transport mode

Buses will remain the main mode of public transport despite the introduction of metro trains in the country

New Delhi,India -The Hindu (Chennai,India) -Aug. 31, 2007: -- ... the Rajya Sabha was informed yesterday... "Despite metro rail, major load of public transport will still be carried by buses," union minister of state for urban development Ajay Maken said in a reply... The national urban transport policy does not promote any specific technology for the mass rapid transit system... (Picture: Bharat Yatra
Memories of India/webhome.idirect.com/ ... packed to the gunnels in non-air conditioned Second Class buses...)

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