NOVA BUS

'Nova Bus' is a bus manufacturing company based in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada. The company is now owned by Prevost, which is a division of Volvo Buses.
Nova Bus was created by a reorganization of the transit bus division of MCI in 1993, and continued the production of the 'Classic' model (which was started by General Motors Diesel Division Buses in late 1982) until MCI bought the transit division in 1987. The 'RTS' model, originating from General Motors, was also acquired by NovaBus.
NovaBus currently produce a single product, the 'Nova LFS', a low-floor urban transit bus, which was introduced in 1995. The last 'Classic' model was produced in 1997. After closing their American assembly plants in Roswell, New Mexico, and Niskayuna, New York, in 2002, Nova Bus has mostly withdrawn from the U.S. bus market due to the 'Nova LFS' performing poorly compared to competitors. Instead now NovaBus tends to focus on the Canadian market.

Contents

Products

Past

Current

Clients

Appearances

See also

External links

Products

Past

★ 'Rapid Transit Series (RTS)' - developed by General Motors Diesel Division Buses (1977-2003), (although no longer produced by NovaBus, a small company named 'Millennium Transit' now builds them) RT80-2W

★ 'Classic' - high floor buses (developed as a redesign of the original GMC New Look) originally produced by GM (1983 - 1987), then MCI (1987-1993), and by NovaBus from 1993 - 1997. Models: TC40102N (40", 102' wide) and TC60102N (60", 102' wide, articulated)

Current

★ 'LFS' - low floor and wheelchair accessible (1995-present) in different configurations

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★ 40 foot Low floor transit bus with a stainless steel structure and diesel engine.

★ NovaBus also offers a hybrid electric bus, using an Allison hybrid drive system

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★ 40 foot Suburban bus (single and two door variations)

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★ 40 foot shuttle bus

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★ 60 foot articulated bus, currently completing testing, with full production expected in 2007, and orders are anticpated by RTC, who have already called for tenders on an articulated bus order, and STM in Montréal.

Clients

Canada, LFS:

★ Auger Métropolitain, for CIT du Sud-Ouest, Chateauguay, QC

★ Autocar Connaisseur, Montreal, QC

★ Autocar des Chutes, St-Nicolas, QC

★ Autocar Québec, St-Augustin, QC

★ Barrie Transit

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★ bought one used LFS from Toronto

★ BC Transit

★ Belleville Transit

★ Brampton Transit

★ Brandon Transit

★ Brantford Transit

★ Coast Mountain Bus Company, Vancouver, BC

★ Codiac Transit, Moncton, NB

★ Durham Region Transit

★ Elliott Lake Transit

★ Fredericton Transit

★ Grand River Transit

★ Greater Sudbury Transit

★ Guelph Transit

★ Hamilton Street Railway

★ Kelowna Regional Transit

★ Lanau Bus/Groupe Gaudreault, for MRC L'Assomption, Repentigny, QC

★ La Québecoise for CIT Le Richelain, Laprairie, QC

★ Leduc Bus Lines, Ottawa, ON

★ Limocar, for CIT de la Vallée du Richelieu, Beloeil, QC

★ Metrobus, St. John's, NL

★ Metro Transit, Halifax, NS

★ OC Transpo, Ottawa, ON

★ Oshawa Transit (now part of Durham Region Transit)

★ Ottawa Paramedic Service

★ Peterborough Transit

★ Regina Transit

★ Réseau de transport de la Capitale, Québec, QC

★ Réseau de transport de Longueuil

★ Strathcona County Transit, Sherwood Park, AB

★ Société de transport de Laval

★ Société de transport de Lévis

★ Société de transport de l'Outaouais, Gatineau, QC

★ Société de transport de Montréal

★ Société de transport de Saguenay

★ Société de transport de Sherbrooke

★ Société de transport de Trois-Rivières

★ Timmins Transit

★ Thunder Bay Transit

★ Toronto Transit Commission

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★ sold lone LFS bus to Barrie Transit

★ Transit Windsor

★ Véolia Transport, St-Bruno, QC

★ Victoria Regional Transit System

★ West Vancouver Blue Bus

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★ operating ex-Vancouver pilot bus B7298

★ Whitby Transit (now part of Durham Region Transit)

★ Woodstock Transit

★ Whitehorse, Yukon Transit
USA, LFS:

★ Capital District Transportation Authority, Albany, NY

★ Central Ohio Transit Authority, Columbus, OH

★ Charlotte Area Transit System

★ Chemung County Transit System

★ Chicago Transit Authority

★ Coach USA, Hartford, CT, Philadelphia, PA, and San Juan, PR

★ Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dallas, TX

★ Disney Transport, Orlando, FL

★ Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority

★ Kenosha Transit

★ Knoxville Area Transit

★ Memphis Area Transit Authority

★ Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, Buffalo/Niagara Falls, NY

★ The Ohio State University Campus Area Bus Service (CABS), Columbus, OH

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★ CABS owns two demo models of the LFS

★ Port Authority of New York and New Jersey at Newark Liberty International Airport, Newark, NJ

★ Rutgers University Campus Bus System (owned by Academy Bus), New Brunswick/Piscataway, NJ

★ Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District

★ StarMetro Tallahassee, Florida.

★ Tompkins Regional Airport, Ithaca, NY

★ MTA Bridges and Tunnels, New York, NY

★ University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

★ University of Colorado Buff Bus, Boulder, CO

Appearances

★ Stranger Than Fiction (film)

★ How It's Made

See also

★ General Motors Diesel Division Buses

★ Gillig Corporation

★ Irizar

★ MAN AG

★ Mercedes-Benz buses / Setra

★ Neoplan USA (defunct)

★ New Flyer Industries - formerly Flyer Industries and Western Flyer Industries

★ North American Bus Industries - formerly Ikarus

★ Orion Bus Industries - formerly Ontario Bus Industries

★ Van Hool

External links

★ Official site

★ Nova Bus page at busexplorer.com