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COSOL lands Long Beach Transit Managed Service contract

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COSOL North America has been awarded a new contract to provide proactive and reactive Managed Services for Long Beach Transit (LBT).

The scope of works includes providing all levels of Ellipse support for the Finance, Maintenance and Procurement/Materials Departments, in addition to COSOL providing ongoing technical and functional support for the Ellipse application.

LBT provides public transportation to more than 23 million annual boarding customers in southeastern Los Angeles County and northwestern Orange County. With a service area covering over 100 square miles across 14 cities, LBT annually runs more than 6.9 million service miles over 700,000 service hours, using 250 fixed-route buses.

LBT joins COSOL’s impressive portfolio of public transit clients which includes Transit Authority of River City (tarc), Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA), Orange County Transport Authority (OCTA) and Valley Metro in the United States, and Metro Trains Sydney and Western Australia Public Transport Authority in Australia.

“Being awarded this contract is a further demonstration of the confidence our public infrastructure clients have in COSOL. They value the depth of our understanding of the particular challenges faced by the public transit sector and our extensive experience within the Ellipse environment,” said COSOL North America CEO, Max Rogers.