Altair tapped to develop high-tech bus prototypes
Troy’s Altair Engineering is teaming up with Automation Alley to develop two prototype high-tech buses that will be delivered to SMART and DDOT in 2008.
Troy’s Altair Engineering is teaming up with Automation Alley to develop two prototype high-tech buses that will be delivered to SMART and DDOT in 2008.
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The project will see Automation Alley and Altair, which develops software for manufacturing and grid computing, develop two prototype buses that are lighter, more fuel efficient, environmentally friendlier and easier to maintain than the existing state of the art.
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