Innovations (Issue 43, Summer 2019)
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FirstGroup coup fails, but chairman departs
Shareholders decline Coast Capital’s proposals, but Wolfhart Hauser leaves the group following ‘a very clear shot across the bows of the board’ Wolfhart Hauser FirstGroup avoided an overhaul of its current board of directors after shareholders this week voted against proposals put forward by activist investor Coast Capital. All of the resolutions put...
Berlin – a working model of new mobility
Berlin has for a number of years been one of the world’s leading cities for innovation and, in particular, mobility innovation BVG has done a partnership deal with operator ViaVan to operate a joint service I have visited Berlin a number of times over the years, but it was interesting to reflect...
Go-Ahead Group on road to zero emissions
The transport group has been working on a number of initiatives that aim to boost the environmental credentials of bus travel Go-Ahead will operate a fleet of 127 full electric buses in London by March 2020 Go-Ahead Group believes that it is doing more than any other UK bus operator in de-carbonising...
Transdev’s greener and cleaner ambition
The transport group has been working on a number of initiatives that aim to boost the environmental credentials of bus travel Earlier this year Transdev planted the first of 40 trees that will be planted each year in Harrogate Transdev has been working on a number of low carbon bus initiatives across...
Summit offers a glimpse of the future
Scania’s futuristic NXT concept was on show at the Global Public Transport Summit in Stockholm this week, where public transport was hailed as ‘the art of the future’ Scania’s NXT More than 15,000 public transport professionals from around the world were offered a glimpse of the future in Stockholm this month. Exhibiting on...
First Bus for sale, but group faces showdown
Activist investor Coast Capital will attempt to unseat FirstGroup’s board at meeting in London later this month, as group plots sale of UK bus business FirstGroup’s board faces a showdown with activist investor Coast Capital at an extraordinary general meeting in London later this month. The gathering at 2pm on June 25 at...
How can we support towns like Batley?
Towns can help themselves – but they need big institutions, including the transport sector, to think carefully to back them up There are so many policy reports on transport and cities you could stack them up as high as the Beetham Tower. However, the pile of reports on transport and towns would...
Uncertainty is weighing heavily on our people
Tens of thousands of passenger transport workers are wondering who they will be working for – and the Williams Review is adding to this instability, writes Alex Warner. Business psychologists would have a field day with the current state of Britain’s rail industry right now. They’d be alarmed not only about the lack...
£320m sale of ADL will ‘boost global growth’
Alexander Dennis Limited has been sold to a North American bus builder, but boss Colin Robertson is staying on to lead new international expansion Colin Robertson (left), pictured in Edinburgh with Paul Soubry, NFI’s President and CEO The UK’s largest bus builder, Alexander Dennis Limited, claims that its sale to Canada-based NFI Group...
MPs urge government to develop bus strategy
Transport Select Committee seeks action to end decline MPs have called on the government to develop and adopt a bus strategy for England by the end of next year. Members of the House of Commons Transport Select Committee concluded that such a bus strategy was neccessary in their report, Bus Services in England...
We know the pledges – but what’s the plan?