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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy datesThe MTA Regional Bus Operations bus fleet is a fleet of buses in fixed-route service in New York City under the "MTA New York City Bus" (also known as New York City Transit or NYCT) and "MTA Bus" brands, the former of which includes Select Bus Service routes.

Description and history[]

The fleet consists of over 5,700 buses of various types and models for fixed-route service, making MTA RBO's fleet the largest public bus fleet in the United States.[1] The MTA also has over 2,000 vans and cabs for ADA paratransit service, providing service in New York City, southwestern Nassau County, and the city of Yonkers. All vehicles (except for paratransit cabs) are fully accessible to persons with disabilities.[2][3] Fixed-route buses are dispatched from 28 garages (20 New York City Bus and 8 MTA Bus) and one annex in New York City.

Several fleet improvements have been introduced over the system's history. The first large order of air conditioned buses began service in 1966.[4] "Kneeling buses" were introduced in 1976, and wheelchair lifts began appearing in 1980.[5][4][6] Also in the 1980s, stop-request cords ("bell cords") were replaced by yellow tape strips. However, buses ordered after 2008 feature cords rather than tape strips due to the latter's higher maintenance cost.[7] Articulated buses were introduced in 1996, and have since become prominent in the Bronx and Manhattan.[8][5] Low-floor buses, designed to speed boarding and alighting and improve riding conditions for elderly and disabled passengers, were first tested in 1997[9][10] and have made up most of the new non-express buses ordered since the early 2000s. Most post-2000 orders also feature stop-request buttons located on grab bars.[11] Beginning in 2016, new orders along with buses built after 2011 will be built/retrofitted with Wi-Fi connectivity and USB charging ports.

Starting in 2016, efforts to bring an audio/visual system to the current and future fleet went underway to improve customer service and ADA accessibility thru use of next stop announcements & PSAs. Though the former Long Island Bus Division (now NICE Bus) had already deployed such a system throughout its fleet since the early-2000s, the MTA had only trialed similar systems alongside GPS tracking between 2007 to 2012 on select routes in the New York City Bus system. Current plans include the installation of digital information screens installed throughout the interior of the bus which will provide real-time information such as time, weather, advertisements, & service advisories. [12] The screens are supplied by contract from 3 different vendors and are installed on new bus deliveries starting in 2017 while buses built after 2008 are currently receiving retrofits. A new livery was also introduced, replacing the blue stripe livery on a white base that had been in use in one variation or another since the late 1970s. The first of these buses entered service in mid-May 2016 on the Q10 route.[13]

Buses operating on clean or alternative fuels also make up a significant portion of the fleet, particularly since the establishment of the MTA's "Clean Fuel Bus" program in June 2000.[4] Buses running compressed natural gas (CNG) were first tested in the early 1990s,[14][15] and mass-ordered beginning in 1999.[4][14] Hybrid-electric buses, operating with a combination of diesel and electric power, were introduced in September 1998 with the OBI Orion VI,[4][16][17] and mass-ordered beginning in 2002 with the OBI Orion VII.[5][16] These hybrid buses proved to be useful, at least the 2006-2007 Orion VII models.[18] Within the current fleet are over 1,600 diesel-electric buses and over 700 buses powered by compressed natural gas, which make up over half of the total fleet.[1][19][20] This is the largest fleet of either kind in the United States.[20][21]

In 2017, the MTA ordered a test fleet of ten forty-foot battery-electric buses, five from New Flyer and five from Proterra, the XE40 Xcelsior CHARGE and Catalyst BE40 models respectively. These were all leases, which expired in 2021. In 2019, the MTA ordered their first battery-electric sixty-foot articulated buses, with an order of fifteen XE60 Xcelsior CHARGE buses from New Flyer, deployed on Manhattan Select Bus Service routes. In April 2021, the agency placed an RFP for forty-five new forty-foot battery-electric buses.

Later in 2021, the MTA awarded New Flyer the contract for the electric bus order, set to arrive in late 2022 and 2023. 15 more buses were added to the originally 45 bus contract, making 60 buses for MTA NYCT.

Fixed-route fleet details[]

A roster of the fleet is shown below. Not included below are buses and vans not open to the general public (Access-A-Ride vans, taxicabs, and employee shuttle buses), retired buses, or demonstration buses. This list also does not include buses formerly operated by MTA Long Island Bus (now Nassau Inter-County Express) that are now operated under contract to Nassau County by Transdev.

Local, limited, & Select Bus Service vehicles[]

All buses listed below have semi-low floors.

Image Builder and

model name

Model year Length Numbers

(total)

Amount active Energy source Operator
File:Kew Gdns Union Tpke td (2018-07-07) 10.jpg Orion Bus IndustriesOrion VII 07.501 HEVOriginal Generation 2006-2007 Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) 3500–3783

6690–6905(500 buses)

282

retiring

Diesel-electric hybrid MTA Bus & NYCT
M55 3824 Orion Bus IndustriesOrion VII 07.501 HEV

Next Generation

2008 3800–3959

(160 buses)

156
Bx10 4348 2009-2010 3960–4278

4330–4702(692 buses)

665
Bx15 1210 Nova BusLFS-A TL62102A1st Generationarticulated Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) 1200–1289

(90 buses)

88 Diesel NYCT
Q27 8056 Nova BusLFS TL40102A3rd Generation 2011 Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) 8000–8089

(90 buses)

89
File:4th Av 87th St Bklyn td (2018-09-19) 01.jpg Orion Bus IndustriesOrion VII 07.501EPA103rd Generation 7000–7089

(90 buses)

83
B83 4823 New FlyerXD40 Xcelsior 4810–4899

(90 buses)

90
B16 455 New FlyerC40LF Low Floor 2011-2013 185–672

(488 buses)

488 CNG MTA Bus & NYCT
Bx19 5956 Nova BusLFS-A TL62102A1st Generation

articulated

Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) 5252–5298

5300–5363 5770–5986 (328 buses)

328 Diesel NYCT
File:XD60 on B38 .jpg New FlyerXD60 Xcelsiorarticulated 2012-2013 Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) 4710–4799

(90 buses)

89
B26 7293 New FlyerXD40 Xcelsior 2014-2015 Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) 7090–7483

(394 buses)

393 MTA Bus & NYCT
S89 Limited 8310 Nova BusLFS TL40102A

4th Generation

2015-2016 8090–8503

(414 buses)

413 NYCT
Q111 5416 New FlyerXD60 Xcelsior

articulated

Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) 5364–5438

(75 buses)

75 MTA Bus
M14 6105File:2017 New Flyer XD60 5990 on the Q44-SBS.jpg 2016-2017 5987–6125

(139 buses)

139 MTA Bus & NYCT
B16 758 New FlyerXN40 Xcelsior Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) 673–810

(138 buses)

137 CNG NYCT
Bx1 5439File:23rd St 9th 10th Avs Mid td (2018-11-27) 01.jpg Nova BusLFS-A TL62102A

2nd Generation articulated

2016-2019 Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) 5439–5602

(164 buses)

164 Diesel
B35 1103File:161st St River Av td (2019-01-24) 92.jpg New FlyerXN60 Xcelsiorarticulated 2017-2018 Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) 1000–1109

(110 buses)

109 CNG
File:4th Av 87th St Bklyn td (2019-07-10) 04a.jpg New FlyerXD40 Xcelsior 2017-2019 Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) 7484–7850

(367 buses)

366 Diesel
B13 9501 New FlyerXDE40 Xcelsior 2018 9500–9509

(10 buses)

10 Diesel-electric hybrid
Q46 8529 Nova BusLFS TL40102A

4th Generation

2018-2019 8504–8754

(251 buses)

251 Diesel
Q53 SBS 6234File:Kings Hwy Nostrand Av td (2019-08-25) 02.jpg New FlyerXD60 Xcelsior

articulated

2018-2020 Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) 6126–6286

(161 buses)

161 MTA Bus & NYCT
File:MTA NYC Bus M14A-SBS Bus.jpg New FlyerXE60 Xcelsior CHARGEarticulated 2019 4950–4964

(15 buses)[22]

15 Battery electric NYCT
File:9806 M4.jpg Nova BusLFS HEV TL40102A4th Generation 2021-2022 Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) 9620–9910

(291 buses)

126

under delivery

Diesel-electric hybrid
File:9510 xde40.jpg New FlyerXDE40 Xcelsior 9416–9499, 9510–9619

(204 buses)

95

under delivery

File:Lfs 8755.jpg Nova BusLFS TL40102A4th Generation 8755–8963

(209 buses)

1

testing in progress

Diesel

Express bus fleet[]

All express buses are diesel-powered, Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) long commuter coaches. All buses are high-floored.[23]

Image Builder and

model name

Model year Numbers

(total)

Amount active Operator
File:Cross Bay Bl 133rd Av td 01.jpg Motor Coach IndustriesD4500CL 2004-2007 3000–3474

4300–4329(505 buses)

422

retiring

MTA Bus & NYCT
File:N Conduit Av 88th St td 09.jpg Motor Coach IndustriesD4500CT 2008 2210–2250

(41 buses)

30

retiring

File:State St Battery Pl td (2018-08-23) 16.jpg PrévostX3-45 Commuter1st Generation 2011 2400–2489

(90 buses)

90 NYCT
File:Kew Gdns Union Tpke td (2018-06-20) 28.jpg Motor Coach IndustriesD4500CT 2013 2251–2304

(54 buses)

53
File:Bowling Green td (2018-08-23) 07.jpg PrévostX3-45 Commuter

1st Generation

2014-2016 2490–2789

(300 buses)

298
File:Main St Union Tpke td (2021-03-01) 35.jpg PrévostX3-45 Commuter

2nd Generation

2021-2022 1300–1629

(330 buses)

156

under delivery

MTA Bus & NYCT

Future bus fleet[]

Builder and model name Model year Length Numbers

(total)

Energy source Operator
Nova BusLFS 2023 Expression error: Unrecognized word "m". ft (Expression error: Unexpected < operator. {{{4}}}) 8964–9098

(135 buses)

Diesel MTA Bus
New FlyerXE40 Xcelsior CHARGE 2022-2023 TBA

(60 buses)

Battery electric NYCT
TBA

(375 buses)

TBATBA 2025-2026 TBA

(60 buses)

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 MTA Capital Program Oversight Committee Meeting: January 2016. Metropolitan Transportation Authority (January 2016).
  2. MTA New York City Transit (NYCT).
  3. MTA Bus Company (MTABUS).
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 New York City Transit - History and Chronology. Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 (December 1, 2010) The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-18257-6. 
  6. New York City Transit Facts & Figures: 1979. Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City Transit Authority (1979).
  7. Sulzberger, A.J.. "The Return of the Bus Bell Cord", The New York Times, May 12, 2009.
  8. NEW BUS A REAL STRRRETCH (October 3, 1996).
  9. Rolland D. King (January 1, 1998). New Designs and Operating Experiences with Low-floor Buses. Transportation Research Board. ISBN 978-0-309-06308-1. 
  10. Kornblut, Anne E. (January 20, 1997). REDESIGNED BUS MAY AID DISABLED.
  11. [1] "How to Ride the Bus" mta.info
  12. Newsday | Long Island's & NYC's News Source | Newsday.
  13. "2,042 New Buses to Have Free Wi-Fi and USB Charging Ports by 2020", Metropolitan Transportation Authority, March 8, 2016.
  14. 14.0 14.1 Template:Cite journal
  15. Pierre-Pierre, Garry (January 16, 1996). Buses Using Natural Gas Do Well in Pilot Program.
  16. 16.0 16.1 Press Release (November 29, 2005). Orion Hybrid/Electric Buses Are Key To Cleaner Air And Improved Economy. Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
  17. Wald, Matthew L. (February 8, 1999). Hybrid Bus Is Environmentally Friendly.
  18. New York’s hybrid buses prove their worth (en-US) (2008-02-07).
  19. Young, Angelo (July 1, 2013). New York City Scrapping Nearly A Fourth Of Its Hybrid Bus Engines For 100% Diesel Bus Engines. International Business Times.
  20. 20.0 20.1 Transit & Bus Committee Meeting 49–50. Metropolitan Transportation Authority (April 23, 2018).
  21. Press Release (September 5, 2008). MTA NYC Transit Introduces New Generation Hybrid Electric Bus Into Staten Island Service. Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
  22. MTA Deploys First All-Electric Bus Fleet to 14th Street Busway.
  23. Aber, Judah (May 2016). Electric Bus Analysis for New York City Transit.

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