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NovaBus
Type	Subsidiary
Founded	1993
Headquarters	Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada
Industry	Manufacturing
Products	Public Transit Buses
Parent	Prevost Car
Website	Official site

Nova Bus is a bus manufacturing company based in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada. The company is now owned by Prevost Car, 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.

Contents 1 Products 1.1 Past 1.2 Current 2 Clients 3 Appearances 4 See also 5 External links

• 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)

• LFS - low floor and wheelchair accessible (1995-present) in different configurations
  • 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
  • 40 foot Suburban bus (single and two door variations)
  • 40 foot shuttle bus
  • 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.

Canada, LFS:

• Auger Métropolitain, for CIT Sud-Ouest
• Autocar Connaisseur, Montreal, QC, for airport shuttle services
• Autocar des Chutes, St-Nicolas, QC
• Autocar Québec, St-Augustin, QC
• Barrie Transit
  • 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 and MRC Les Moulins
• La Québecoise for CIT Richelain and CIT Sorel-Varennes
• Leduc Bus Lines, Ottawa, ON
• Limocar, for CIT de la Vallée du Richelieu and CIT Laurentides
• 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 Granby
• 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
  • operates RTS
  • sold lone LFS bus to Barrie Transit
• Transit Windsor
• TransLink (Vancouver), Vancouver, BC
• Véolia Transport for RTL (St-Bruno), CIT Chambly-Richelieu-Carignan, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, OMIT Sainte-Julie
• Victoria Regional Transit System
• West Vancouver Blue Bus
  • 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 at several locations in the New York Metropolitan area
• 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
  • CABS owns two demo models of the LFS
• Rutgers University Campus Bus System (owned by Academy Bus), New Brunswick/Piscataway, NJ
• Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District
• StarMetro, Tallahassee, Florida.
• Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit, Ithaca, NY
• Tompkins Regional Airport, Ithaca, NY
• MTA Bridges and Tunnels, New York, NY
• University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
• University of Colorado Buff Bus, Boulder, CO

• Stranger Than Fiction (film)
• How It's Made

• 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

• Official site
• Nova Bus page at busexplorer.com