Transportation Technology
Transportation technology in the 1950 has still presented many problems to overcome. The city streets where the local transit bus still required two personnel to operate the daily stopping and handling of the fares. In 1950, the first Allison V-Drive transmission revolutionized the modern transit bus, as we currently know it by eliminating the need for a driver and the conductor on the bus. From this point on the transportation industry has evolved into the mass-mover we see today. Moving millions of passengers daily with no glitches in the schedule.
Moving to modern, less polluting fuels has not happened overnight. Now you can see Compressed Natural Gas, Liquid Natural Gas, Hydrogen/hybrid, electric/hybrid, green diesel, Bio-diesel, and gasoline driven powered hybrid transit buses in any major city.
Rio Hondo College transportation training department has always embraced the future, offering various alternative fuel-training courses. Instructor’s dedicated to the future working through agencies such as:
- American Honda Corporation, Professional Automotive Career training, (PACT)
- South-Coast Air Quality Management District, (SCAQMD)
- The Department of Transportation, (DOT)
- State of California Workforce Development, (EWD)
- The Department of Labor, (DOL)
- Advanced Transportation Technologies initiatives, (ATTi)
- American Public Transportation Association, (APTA)
- National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium, (NAFTC)
- California Community Colleges Association for Occupational Education, (CCCAOE)
- National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation, (NATEF)
- California Automotive Teachers, (CAT)
- North American Council of Automotive Teachers, (NACAT)
- Automotive Service Excellence, (ASE)
- Allison Transmissions
- Detroit Diesel
- John Deere Power Systems
- Robert BOSCH
Rio Hondo College has developed the program to suite both the community in which we live, and the industry that provides careers for the world. Please browse this web-site for your next career.
To view our Heavy Equipment Web-site: http://www.riohondo.edu/tech/auto/hem/