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BUS MARKET * China: Industry Report

* New York - China Bus Industry Report, 2014-2017

(Photo: Street and buses congestion in China)
Albany, NY -MarketResearchReports/ReleaseWire -15 Oct 2014: -- Biz include new market research report "China Bus Industry Report, 2014-2017" to its huge collection of research reports... According to China Bus Industry Report, 2014-2017 released by, it is predicted that by 2017 the total sales volume of buses in China will exceed 690,000 units, and that in the upcoming several years, the sales volume of buses in China will present an AAGR of 9% or so... In 2013, large, medium-sized and light buses sold in China totaled 477,000 units, up 12.1% from 2012. In terms of sales volume, Brilliance Jinbei Automobile sold 104,000 buses in 2013, holding 21.8% of the national total and ranking the first, followed by Kinglong Motor Group, JMC, Yutong Bus and Nanjing Automobile. In Q1 2014, the sales volume of buses in China amounted to 112,978 units, rising 13.6%compared with the same period of 2013... In point of products, the large busessold in China totaled 79,067 units in 2013, a year-on-year increase of 5.2%. However, the steady demand from long-distance passenger transportation market and rapid growth in demand from new energy bus market contributed largely to the continued growth of large bus market in 2013. In Q1 2014, the demand from long-distance passenger transportation marketshrank, with the sales volume of large buses dropping 5.0% year-on-year...

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Report * USA - Buses Are 'Fastest Growing Transportation Mode’

Long-distance bus services are thriving in the United States

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Chicago,ILL,USA -The Infrastructurist, by Eric Jaffe -January 20, 2011: ... America’s intercity buses seem to do best along corridors also serviced by fast trains — namely, the East Coast. If new research is correct, however, the success of intercity buses may be approaching a national phenomenon... According to a new report by transit researchers Joseph Schwieterman and Lauren Fischer of DePaul University, buses showed the most growth of any intercity transportation mode in America in 2010 — the third year in a row they achieved this distinction...

The number of weekday bus departures rose to 2,125 last year, a 6 percent increase from 2009. By comparison, airline departures rose just 3 percent, while Amtrak mileage rose just half a percent over a similar period, according to the report: ... Intercity buses seem to be outpacing other modes when it comes to ridership growth as well. While Amtrak and airline ridership last year grew 5.6 percent and roughly 5 percent, respectively, the new report estimates that bus ridership grew about 33 percent... The key to the industry’s rise, it seems, is the popularity of “curbside” operators like Megabus and BoltBus — as opposed to those housed in traditional stations, like Greyhound — which accounted for more than one-fifth of all daily bus departures in 2010. Part of this recent appeal is that most curbside companies have upgraded their coaches to include amenities like WiFi...

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Special Report * China - War on snow havoc

Beijing,China -Xinhua -3 March 2008: -- Chinese travelers made 2.02 billion bus trips during the Spring Festival travel season, down 1.6 percent over the same period of last year, Xinhua learnt from the Ministry of Communications on Monday... The ministry attributed the decrease to the unprecedented snow havoc, which paralyzed trunk lines, forced highway closures, caused traffic congestion and killed dozens of people in snow-related traffic accidents... According to He Jianzhong, the ministry spokesman, bus transportation in some snow-hit provinces, including Guizhou, Hunan, Anhui and Huibei, was down by 10 percent to 60 percent year on year during the travel season...

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State urged * USA - To put buses on the roads

Too many people are driving on the state's roads

Danbury,CT,USA -News Time Live, by Robert Miller -Mar 21 2007: -- "I-95 is a traffic nightmare," Karen Burnaska, coordinator of Transit for Connecticut, said Tuesday. "I-84 is becoming almost as congested."... In a report issued Monday, Transit for Connecticut asked the state to take some of those cars off the road by increasing state spending on bus transportation by nearly $280 million over the next five years... (Photo: Linda Tarjanyi, of Danbury gets off the bus at the Kennedy Avenue bus stop in Danbury on Tuesday)

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Bus Vs. Cars * USA

Peoria-Bloomington,IL,USA -Central Illinois Proud/WMBD/WYZZ TV, by Rachel Stein -12 Mar 2007: -- More commuters are choosing to take a bus than pony up the cash for gas. Mass transit nationwide is seeing its highest level of riders in fifty years says the American Public Transportation Association in a report released today... Local Transit Authorities say the trend to leave the car for a bus is "catching on" in the heartland as well... Ridership in Central Illinois has exceeded the three million mark year after year. Transit Authorities say they've seen a sharp increase in the last four years which goes hand-in-hand with the rising price at the pumps... On the other hand, Peoria area commuters took 200-thousand bus rides and Twin Cities passengers took nearly 100-thousand in the month of January... Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System says that's a seven percent jump from last year. Transit authorities say the increase in riders will have them adding stops and even new routes...

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Report * USA - Seventy percent of Muni's buses or streetcars run on time

San Francisco,CAL,USA -KESQ (Palm Springs,CAL) -20 Feb 2007: -- A new report is confirming what many San Francisco commuters already know -- that the city's buses and streetcars often run behind schedule... According to statistics from the Municipal Transportation Agency, only seventy percent of its buses or streetcars showed up on time last year... That's short of a proposition approved by voters in 1999 requiring that 85 percent of Muni's buses and trains run on time by 2004...

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