b'46 MCI SPECIAL REPORT PASSENGER TRANSPORTAdvice for Others Calabro emphasizes that electric buses and inductive charging Project designers learned a significant lesson when adding thearent just science fiction anymore. Our system is real, its here wireless charging system. The inductive charging pads wereand its keeping fleets going, he remarks. Theres a good installed in the curb area where MCIs economy lot buses park, anchance wireless could make it cheaper and easier to electrify area also shared by shuttles for the consolidated rental car facility.your fleet, and simpler to operate once you do.Typically, airports strive for flexibility at their curbs, but placing the charging pads into the concrete makes that bus queue locationBeyond Busesmore permanent.In addition to transitioning MCIs economy parking shuttles to Choosing where to place the pads early in the planningelectric power, the Kansas City Aviation Department is working process kind of forced our hand a little bit in terms of how thewith its airlines to move ground support equipment in the same commercial curb was going to operate, Meyer explains. Hedirection. The airports use and lease agreement provides a cautions other airports to consider various uses for the curb,phased timeline for having a portion of airline ground support including possible future changes, when adding inductiveequipment electric in the future. charging pads. It would be ideal to space the pads out to allowWere more comprehensively trying to push not only enough room for buses to pull in and out, so if a bus is using theourselves but also our partners into the less fossil fuel-dependent rear pad, another bus can pull into the open pad in front. modes of operation, Meyer remarks.Yan emphasizes that transitioning to electric buses definitelyNot surprisingly, InductEV is also gearing up for that transition improves the transit experience for airport customers. Itswith wireless charging systems for ground support functions and quieter and smoother, with no smelly exhaust fumes, heequipment. remarks. Electric buses also help airports fulfill long-term sustainability goals inspired by stakeholders asking them to become more eco-friendly.SCHIBECIPP600 MICRO PLANERStripe & Marking Removal SystemNO GHOST LINES | NO TRACEHIGH PRODUCTION RATES | LOW OPERATING COSTSold by:Mecom Equipment LLC | 209.466.5135 | mecomsales@aol.comFOR MORE INFORMATION: WWW.SCHIBECI.COMMay | June 2023AirportImprovement.com'