Providence, RI – Rhode Island Public Transit Authority, RIPTA, performed their inaugural run of the electric buses today. Earlier in the year, RIPTA announced that they would be leasing three electric buses from Proterra using $1.44 million dollars in federal settlement money. These buses would be the Proterra Catalyst BE40 model and the first electric…
Southside IthacaRoute 15 – Southside Shopper Introduction to Southside Ithaca Ithaca is Gorges! Welcome to Ithaca. A very lively town in upstate New York with one of the simplest bus systems in the country. A fleet of 51 buses operates on several lines. This map will be focusing on route 15, which operates on the…
In order to add any vehicle to your AI list, you must first locate the AI list. First, go into the folder for the map you want to modify. Find a file labeled “ailists.cfg” (if you see ailists_#low.cfg, do add more than one vehicle type to this file as it is to be for the…
Today was the ribbon-cutting ceremony and press conference for the SEPTA “Boulevard Direct” Service. The actual line debuts on October 22nd, 2017. The main goal of this new service is to cut down on travel times. SEPTA Route 14 normally would take anywhere from 47 minutes to an hour on this trip. Specially branded “Boulevard…
A very crucial function in OMSI 2 is so near-impossible to get to without the know how (or previously having OMSI 1 and just knowing how to get to it). Step one: Open up steam, and right click OMSI 2 in the library to bring up the menu. Step two: select “properties” and when the…
Hello All, It’s DashTransit here with yet another OMSI 2 Tutorial I noticed that a lot of people have either encountered an issue where the map does not appear in the drop-down menu after downloading and installing. Worse yet, some were able to start the new map but then had it crash with an error…
Welcome to the new Virtual Transportation Center! As you may know, this site is brand new. It is indeed the replacement of the original VTC website at http://w11.zetaboards.com/bacon/ With this post, I will answer several questions What is the point of the switch? The original site was not meant to be as big as it had…
Hello all, Dash5155 is here with a set of guidelines to help you troubleshoot all your possible problems in OMSI and OMSI 2. In this thread, we will first go over general troubleshooting/game maintenance. Then afterward I will show you how to get the best support based on your problems. Game Maintenance/Trouble Shooting When having…
After about three years of extensive testing, DART First State of Delaware places new 45 foot coaches into service on routes 301 and 305. These coaches are 2012 MCI D4500CT’s and they are replacing older coaches built-in 1999 by Motor Coach Industries. DART’s new state-of-the-art coaches made their debut runs today, April 2nd, 2012, on…
SEPTA, aka Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, awarded a 3-year contract to NovaBus for 90 forty-foot buses and 155 sixty-foot buses. Of the 155 sixty-foot buses, 70 are to be sixty-foot hybrid articulated buses, and 85 are to be sixty-foot clean diesel articulated buses to NovaBus. SEPTA may later secure funding to get 85 hybrid sixty-foot…
New Jersey Transit‘s Newton Avenue garage gets yet another batch of NABI Transits. This batch actually has multiple purposes, and retiring buses one for one isn’t on their agenda! These new NABIs that are coming in (5907-5918, 5924-5928 so far) are serving multiple tasks for Newton Avenue Garage. First, they are going to, in turn,…
According to a recent press release from NJ Transit, it has undergone major fleet replacements and expansion as well as rail track, signal, and other equipment improvement and replacement. To start, New Jersey Transit is ordering new trains, including an order of 100 Multilevel cars and 10 more ALP-45DP Dual Mode locomotives. These will replace the…
