Mayor of Greater Manchester blames deregulation for decline in bus use, but says that he is ‘open minded’ about how to improve service provision Andy Burnham (right) was speaking at the launch of an electric bus The 2017 Bus Services Act was conceived in response to a pledge to give the mayor of...
Train manufacturing giants plan to merge their rail and mobility services operations in a bid to drive away competition from Far East newcomers Siemens president Joe Kaeser (left) and Alstom’s chairman and CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge revealed the merger plans Siemens and Alstom, Europe’s largest train manufacturers, have agreed a merger of their rail...
Patronage is rising, but franchising remains an option Partners marked the Alliance at an event in September The number of bus journeys young people are making in the Liverpool City Region has risen by 142% in the last three years. The figure was revealed on September 22 at an event to mark 12...
Cubic’s Innovation Centre in central London is the testbed for new technologies that could transform the public transport journey experience 60 people per minute: a visualisation of a ‘gateless gateline’ Identifying yourself by the vein structure in your hand and having cameras track your every move through a railway station – to some...
Office of Rail & Road’s Stephen Glaister warns UK Rail Summit that continuation of current ‘HLOS/SoFA’ process cannot be taken for granted Stephen Glaister: ‘a real risk’ The chair of the railway’s regulator has warned that there is “a real risk” that the government will ditch the current process of five-year funding settlements...
Fall continues in Spring quarter, with 2.4% decline in England outside of London Bus journeys: April-June 2017 versus April-June 2016 Source: Department for Transport The number of people travelling by bus continues to decline across Great Britain, according to the latest statistics from the Department for Transport. Figures for April-June 2017 show year-on-year decreases in England...
‘Big railway’ must become more like the Underground Hendy: ‘Obviously a good thing to do’ Sir Peter Hendy says that the ‘Digital Railway’ is the only way that the railway will be able to cope with the growing demands for capacity. Addressing the UK Rail Summit in London last week, the Network Rail...
Welcome to the International Bus Review 2017, a new publication devoted to this vital sector. This publication from Passenger Transport, based in London, has been produced to co-incide with in the Busworld Europe show in Kortrijk, Belgium, on October 20-25 and the accompanying UITP-Busworld International Bus Conference. It features contributions from a variety of organisations involved in...
Abellio Greater Anglia has trained 160 managers to cover for conductors, while South Western Railway is said to be well equipped to face action South Western Railway faces a ballot on industrial action Abellio Greater Anglia has told conductors and the RMT union that striking over its plans to introduce driver controlled operation...
Harry Blundred OBE was the owner of Transit Holdings and he was credited with spearheading the minibus revolution of the 1980s Harry Blundred with one of the original Devon General minibuses at a bus rally in 2013 The family of bus industry entrepreneur Harry Blundred OBE has announced that he passed away in...
London-Edinburgh market share was 37% in June A Virgin Trains East Coast train at Edinburgh Waverley Virgin has achieved its highest air/rail market share on its Scottish routes, with the company’s East and West Coast services carrying a third of London-Scotland passengers in June. The company said it was indicative of a “historic...
Devolution, franchising and innovation are getting results for the ‘nearly perfect people’ of Scandinavia. What lessons can we learn? Scandinavia has some of the richest, most successful societies on Earth, with exceptionally high levels of education, health care, and safety. The world goes to Scandinavia to see what countries that think big on...
The Scandi approach to public transport