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It was August last year when Pelican Bus & Coach, Yutong’s UK dealer, announced the launch of a zero-emission midibus, the Yutong E9. That is, an e-bus a scant 9 meters (8.94 m to be exact) by a width of 2.42 meters, ideal for urban and suburban applications, equipped with 255 kWh batterie...

Marcopolo, in partnership with Brazilian autonomous mobility startup Lume Robotics, has unveiled the first prototype of an autonomous minibus in South America. The project, developed over two years with the collaboration of several Brazilian companies, integrates autonomous technology into the Volar...

The Routing Company (TRC) has celebrated the launch of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit’s (SMART) new on-demand SMART Connect service in Sonoma County (Northern California). This marks TRC’s first partnership with a rail entity. In partnership with SMART, TRC is offering accessible on-...

First Ebusco 3.0 with Transdev’s livery will hit the road soon in the Netherlands. They are the first coming out from series production. The delivery “marks a new phase towards a production capacity of 3,000 buses per year“, Ebusco states (such plan was already announced earlier th...

After a four-year hiatus, the UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2023 wrapped up its biggest and most impressive edition to date. This international gathering, held in Barcelona from June 4 to June 7, brought together urban mobility experts and professionals from 110 countries, featured 87 sessions...

As a software company with the goal of revolutionizing transportation networks, Optibus focuses on optimizing real-time operations and supporting the transition to electric and zero-emission buses through IT technology. Amos Haggiag, CEO and Co-Founder of Optibus, shares insights on their global exp...

In 2022, the Skoda Group achieved solid results with increased revenues and EBITDA, despite the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, which hit the entire supply chain hard, as well as the effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Although the Group faced significant challenges related to th...

According to BloombergNEF’s Electric Vehicle Outlook, by 2032, nearly half of the world’s buses will be fully battery-powered, with almost three out of four buses sold being electric. This surge in electric buses is outpacing the adoption rate of electric passenger vehicles, and commerci...

In Edinburgh, the tramway extends its route. On 7 June 2023, the 4.7 km extension of the tram line from St. Andrew Square to Newhaven opened to the public. The new section, under construction since November 2019, cost £207.3 million, and was actually supposed to form part of the second line of the p...

Bus Miccolis, an operator providing services in various regions of southern Italy, announced that it has launched a state-of-the-art ticketing system for the city of Potenza. The solution is provided by Municipia and developed by Masabi, which launched the Fare-Payments-as-a-Service concept. The imp...