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National Express West Midlands is procuring 300 new zero emission buses. They are set to be delivered by end 2024. The group is investing for this purpose as many as £150 million. It is pointed out that the zero emission buses must be ‘UK-made’ and ‘double-decker’. This inves...

Digigroup Informatica presents 4Fleets, an innovative web platform that optimize fleet maintenance process using the industry-standard TiGR (Telematics for intelligent Garage in Real Time) communication protocol recently introduced in the European bus marketplace. The role of the TiGR protocol TiGR ...

Increasingly sustainable public transport in Valladolid, Spain, where eleven 18-meter Irizar e-mobility ie tram are expected to enter service on the Barrio España-Covaresa line. An investment of about 12 million euros, practically one million per unit; added to this budget are the 400,000 euros of t...

Navya states it has filed for cessation of payments with the Commercial Court of Lyon on 25th January 2025. The stock price of Navya on the Paris Stock Exchange has dropped significantly in the past years. It was over 7 euros in 2018, at the time of the debut on Paris Stock Exchange, then had [&hell...

632 zero emission buses were registered in Germany in 2022 (+7%): the country places on the second place in Europe (but at the forefront in EU), as only UK made better with 696 new e-bus and fuel cell bus registrations, according to figures by Chatrou CME Solutions and anticipated by German media Om...

After announcing it in October 2022 at the Autocar Expo show, Safra is set to unveil its first hydrogen retrofit kit during Hyvolution, scheduled for Paris Porte de Versailles Feb. 1 and 2.Announced last October at Autocar Expo, the company is now in the running for approval. The H2 retrofit kit pro...

Deutsche Bahn plans to transport 200 million passengers per year with on-demand transportation by 2030. Autonomous shuttle buses will also be used on behalf of municipalities and transportation associations. The company’s executive in charge of regional transportation, Evelyn Palla, announced ...

The 2022 edition of Bus2Bus, the bus fair in Berlin, had recorded excellent results: more than two thousand trade visitors from 25 countries, about one hundred exhibitors of 16 different nationalities. The next event is more than a year away, but fever is already rising for the next Bus2Bus, schedul...

UITP is coordinating the new EU-project UPPER, whose focus is to “Unleashing the Potential of Public transport in EuRope” The goal of the project is to increase the use of public transportation by more than 30% and user satisfaction by more than 25%, while ensuring that no...

Via has launched TARTA Flex on-demand public transit service in Toledo (Ohio, USA). The service has been launched with Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority (TARTA). What is interesting, Via stresses that “this is the first microtransit launch made possible through a transit agency&...