page_title: Trolleybuses in Dayton
section_title: Current fleet
hierarchical_section_title: Trolleybuses in Dayton / Fleet / Current fleet
caption_attribution_description: Dayton trolleybus 9851, a 1999-built ETI 14TrE2, northbound on Jefferson Street north of 4th Street in downtown, with a Gillig diesel bus behind
context_page_description: The Dayton trolleybus system forms part of the public transportation network serving Dayton, in the state of Ohio, United States. Opened on April 23, 1933, it presently comprises seven lines, and is operated by the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority, with a fleet of 54 trolleybuses.
  One of only five such systems currently operating in the U.S., and the only one in a city without a subway, light rail, or streetcar system, the Dayton trolley bus system is the current manifestation of an electric transit service that has been operated continuously in Dayton since 1888 — longer than in any other city in the United States. By the 1970s, Dayton was already the smallest U.S. city still operating a trolley bus system. For both of these reasons, the city's trolley buses are locally considered an icon of Dayton.
context_section_description: The present Dayton trolley bus fleet comprises two types of trolley buses:
  †: Vossloh Kiepe was the primary contractor for these four vehicles, and Gillig (which provided the bodies and chassis) was a subcontractor.
  Dayton's first ETI trolley buses were three prototypes built in 1995 and delivered to RTA in late December 1995 and January 1996. Numbered 9601–9603 in RTA's fleet, they were model 14TrE. The E in the model number is a suffix standing for "export", because the 14TrE model was Skoda's first 14Tr model designed for the North American market, which market had requirements that had not applied in Europe, including that wheelchair lifts be included. At the time (and for many years prior), Skoda was one of the largest manufacturers of trolley buses in the world and it had been producing variations of its model 14Tr since 1974, making about 3,350 of that model by 1999.
  The suffix E2 denotes the production series of the export model, which incorporated several changes adopted after testing of the three prototypes, in particular relocation of the wheelchair lift from the rear door to the front door and, necessitated by that change, widening of the body.  The single-pane windshield was replaced by a two-piece one, and the rear window was made smaller.  The length of the 57 ETI vehicles, both models, is 37 feet 8 inches (11.5 m)—slightly shorter than the 40-foot (12 m) standard length for U.S. transit buses. The width was 98.4 inches (2.5 m) for the three prototypes, but was increased to 102 inches (2.6 m) (the standard transit bus width in the U.S.) for the 54 production-series units.
  The three 1995 ETI prototypes, Nos. 9601–9603, all entered service in April 1996.  The production-series ETIs, the 9800s, began to arrive in January 1998 and entered service between May 1998 and September 1999.  By about mid-2004, the 9600s were no longer in regular use. They were retired in 2006, because RTA was having trouble obtaining parts for them, given that they were a small batch of a unique model (not used by any other trolley bus system) and had many differences from the production-series vehicles, RTA's 9800s. As of autumn 2013, 35 of the 54 9800-series ETIs were on active status.  With its fleet having reached 15 years of age by that time, RTA began making plans to purchase replacement vehicles, with plans to test new models and a goal of being ready to place an order by 2016, when the fleet will be about 18 years old.
caption: No. 9851, one of the last of the 54 production-series ETIs, on Jefferson Street in downtown in 2016
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