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Turkmenistan Transportation Officials Visit Dayton

The Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority (GDRTA) in Dayton, OH, recently hosted a high-level delegation of transportation officials from Turkmenistan, arranged through Wright State University’s International Visitors Leadership Program and the U.S. Department of State.

Program advisor Joy Ndiangui said Dayton was selected for the visit mainly because of the city’s unique public transit system, and that the members of the delegation—comprising four transportation officials and two translators—had very specific goals for their visit with agency officials. GDRTA is one of only five U.S. cities that operate electric trolleybuses as part of their public transit fleet, along with diesel and hybrid diesel vehicles. The system also received Ohio’s only five-star Ohio Green Fleet designation from Clean Fuels Ohio for its emission reduction efforts.

Executive staffers presented a special overview of the agency and conducted tours of the headquarters, the bus garage, and the maintenance facilities. Delegation members also rode on GDRTA’s hybrid buses and electric trolleybuses.

“Coming to RTA was the highlight of their visit to Dayton,” Ndiangui said. “Dayton was among a group of other community organizations in the U.S. to put in applications to host visitors under the program. The State Department evaluated the resources we presented in Dayton and found them a good fit with the visitors’ interests.”

GDRTA Executive Director Mark Donaghy added: “It was a great pleasure and honor to host the delegation’s visit to the Dayton region. We were all impressed by their desire to learn about our business firsthand.”

 

GDRTA Executive Director Mark Donaghy, third from right, poses with officials from Turkmenistan in front of one of his system’s buses.

 

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