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A wheelchair lift in the front door of a TriMet bus in Portland, Oregon, in 2010 A bus in Prague with wheelchair lift extended, 2006. A wheelchair lift, also known as a platform lift, or vertical platform lift, is a fully powered device designed to raise a wheelchair and its occupant in order to overcome a step or similar vertical barrier.
Mono-arm lifts, double-arm lifts and under vehicle (UVL) lifts. Double-arm and underbody lifts are best-able for bigger vehicles such as minibuses or buses used for public transport. They have a bigger platform and higher load capacity, so they are suitable even for heavy electric wheelchairs with a heavy occupant (more than 600lbs in all).
Typically, minibuses are used to provide paratransit service in USA. Most paratransit vehicles are equipped with wheelchair lifts or ramps to facilitate access. [4] In the United States, private transportation companies often provide paratransit service in cities and metropolitan areas under contract to local public transportation agencies.
Equipped with wheelchair lifts & bicycle racks. 9420 sold to Limo company in Quincy. 1994 New Flyer Industries D40LF: 40 ft (12.19 m) 102 in (2.59 m) 9426-9432 TalTran, then StarMetro Logo (Red, White & Blue). Equipped with wheelchair lifts. These buses were ex-Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Agency units purchased in 2005. 1996 NovaBus
MTS ceased to exist sometime after 2012 after failing to win any substantial bus orders, as the market for high-floor buses (using rear door mounted wheelchair lifts) had essentially vanished by that point; transit agencies had turned to New Flyer Industries, Orion, Gillig, NovaBus, and NABI and their low-floor models equipped with front door ...
Busette and Transette minibuses both offered optional wheelchair ramps and electro-hydraulic lifts which had been developed by accessibility product pioneers Don Collins, a former Wayne dealer and founder of Collins Bus Corporation (which grew into a major manufacturer specializing in small buses), and Ralph Braun, a disabled man who started ...
In 1982, Collins introduced its first bus with a wheelchair lift; [3] in a shift away from van conversions, the company adopted bodies for cutaway van chassis, introducing the long-running "Bantam" product line. In the mid-1980s, the company would diversify its product ranges.
The Phantom School Bus was not factory-produced with a wheelchair lift; the transit-style wheelchair lift was deleted from the stepwell. As a result, the entry door on the Phantom School Bus was several inches narrower than its mass-transit counterpart.