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Hamburg has been awarded the bid for hosting UITP Public Transport Summit in 2025 and 2027. In the meanwhile, the sector in on track for June 2023 Global Public Transport Summit to take place in Barcelona. “Hamburg has been chosen as the host city for the 2025 & 2027 editions of the&n...

Two fully autonomous, remotely supervized EasyMile shuttles have been launched in service at France’s National Sports Shooting Centre (CNTS) in mid January. They are on track for the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. This pilot, in cooperation with Keolis, aims to validate the economic and op...

UITP has just released the Report “The Road to Sustainability: Transition to Renewable Energy in Public Transport“, that provides guidance on how public transport organizations can successfully transition to renewable energy sources in order to meet their decarbonization goals. The repor...

This is not the first time that Estonian railway operator Eesti Liinirongid (Elron) has turned to the Skoda Group for the supply of trains. And so Elron has ordered ten more trainsets of the winged arrow, which will also serve the new electrified rail route between the capital Tallinn and Tartu, whi...

Sono Motors has been awarded a €1.46 million grant from the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency to advance the development of the company’s proprietary solar technology. The SEAMLESS-PV project was granted by the European Commission and aims, over a four-year peri...

The 3rd edition of the Sustainable Bus Tour is set to begin in May. It’ll consist on trio of webinars focusing on a series of key topics such as the new European policy framework for CO2 reduction from heavy-duty vehicles, the process of decarbonization of bus fleets in Latin and North America...

ADL and BYD launch eleven Enviro 200EV for urban transport in Athlone: a first for Ireland, which will have its first all-electric city bus service. Procured and funded by the National Transport Authority, the buses are operated by Bus Éireann. The new fleet will reduce carbon emissions by 400,000kg...

First Bus has launched an autonomous bus service in Milton Park business, science and technology park near Didcot and Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The service started on Monday 23th January 2023. The service will improve the way people move both around the park, which is home to 250 companies and 9,000 em...

The Canadian city of Ottawa is going to deploy 350 zero emission buses thanks to federal funding, as it was announced lately by Mona Fortier, President of the Treasury Board and a Member of Parliament, along with Mark Sutcliffe, Mayor of Ottawa. $350 million in federal funding are to be used for the...

Webasto, besides offering in-house developed battery system, is launching an Electrical Battery Thermal Management (eBTM). The system helps to maintain the ideal temperature range for traction batteries in vehicles like trucks, vans, buses, and construction machinery. By keeping the batteries within...