Latest Bus Stories
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Mexico-based passenger carrier Autobuses Zacatecanos, LLC, to cease U.S. operations and revoked the firm's authority to provide passenger service within the United States, declaring that its drivers and vehicles pose an imminent hazard to public safety. Autobuses Zacatecanos, LLC, operates a fleet of four buses and primarily...
VANCOUVER, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP)(TSX: BLD) announced today that it anticipates powering approximately 40 of the 50 zero emission fuel cell buses used in public transit revenue service on European roads in 2014. By 2014 Ballard will be powering 27 fuel cell buses manufactured by partner Van Hool NV, Europe's fourth largest bus OEM. The Van Hool buses will be operating in such cities as: Oslo, Norway (5 buses); Cologne, Germany (2); San...
- Now serves approximately 100 cities across North America NEW YORK, May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Megabus.com, the first city-to-city, express bus company with fares from $1, has served 25 million passengers across North America as of today. With fares starting as low as $1, megabus.com has expanded rapidly over the course of its seven-year existence, from serving seven cities to/from Chicago in April 2006 to now serving more than 100 cities across North America. "Megabus.com is...
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Kearns, Utah-based passenger carrier Salt Lake Shuttles, LLC, to immediately cease all operations, declaring that its drivers and vehicles pose an imminent hazard to public safety. Salt Lake Shuttles operates a small fleet of buses and primarily provides charter services between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. "Bus companies across...
WASHINGTON, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Niagara Falls, N.Y.-based passenger carrier Coach USA Tour, Inc., USDOT No. 212153, to immediately cease all operations, declaring that its drivers and vehicles pose an imminent hazard to public safety. Coach USA Tour, Inc., operates a small fleet of tour buses and primarily provides sightseeing tours in the northeastern United...
Acromag's new APCe8675 card routes power and PCIe bus signals to an XMC mezzanine module for high-performance signal processing in a desktop computer or laboratory prototype system. WIXOM, Mich., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Acromag's APCe8675 carrier card offers a simple and cost-effective solution that allows a PC to communicate with an XMC mezzanine module over a PCI Express (PCIe) bus. System developers can insert Acromag's FPGA modules or other XMC modules on the carrier card...
NEW YORK, April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report being released today by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) shows the very promising results of new, clean bus technology which could help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, noise and overall pollution in the world's leading urban centers. Announced by C40 Chair, New York City Michael R. Bloomberg at the New York Times Building Sustainable Cities conference, the Hybrid and Electric Bus Test Program, an...
WASHINGTON, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has ordered Washington, D.C.-based passenger carrier Washington DC Party Shuttle, which also does business as Onboard DC Tours, to immediately cease all operations, declaring that its drivers and vehicles pose an imminent hazard to public safety. This is the first shutdown of a passenger carrier following the deployment earlier this month...
Miami Limo Company A1 Luxury Limousine is now taking Easter Holiday Reservations. This holiday is just one of many in which people reserve limo services. (PRWEB) March 29, 2013 Miami Limo Company A1 Luxury Limousine is now taking Easter Holiday Reservations. This holiday is just one of many in which more people are reserving limo services. A1 Luxury Limousine is the premier limo service provider in Miami, FL. Limousines are no longer just vehicles that people ride in during proms and...
JMR Graphics, a nationwide bus wraps manufacturer, responds to an article published by Chilliwack Progress, which details a university’s attempt to pay for a shuttle bus with advertisements. Central Islip, NY (PRWEB) March 27, 2013 On March 27, nationwide bus wraps manufacturer JMR Graphics comments on an article by The Chilliwack Progress detailing a university’s plan to hire a shuttle bus and raise money to fund it with ads. According to Chilliwack Progress, the University of Fraser...
Latest Bus Reference Libraries
The Universal Serial Bus (USB) was designed to establish communication between devices and a host computer and is intended to replace many types of serial and parallel ports. The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a standard for peripheral devices that began development in 1994. It was originally intended to make it essentially easier to connect external devices to computers by replacing the many connectors that computers had and simplifying software configuration of all the devices connected to...
A motherboard is the central printed circuit board in most modern computers and holds many of the vital components of the system as well as provides connectors for other peripherals. Before the microprocessor was introduced, computers were usually made in a card-cage case or mainframe with the gears connected by a backplane that consisted of a set of slots connected with wires. In much older designs the wires were discrete connections between card connector pins, but printed circuit boards...
A bus is a subsystem that has the ability to transfer data from different computer components, whether in the same computer or two separate ones. Historically, the first computer buses were quite literally parallel electrical buses that had several connections. Today, however, the term bus can be used to describe any component of a computer that has a similar function or intent. A common example of a present day computer bus is a universal serial bus (USB). Computer buses were first created...
