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An autonomous bus on the streets of Norway. It was provided by Karsan, which in these days presented in Stavanger the Autonomous e-Atak, with which the Bursa-based parent company enters the Northern European market, representing in fact the first self-driving bus in the Old Continent. Norway is one ...

IT-TRANS 2022 gathered 275 exhibitors from the ITS, ticketing and MaaS sector in the German city of Karlsruhe. We have been attending the exhibition (28,000 square meters). From on-demand mobility and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) to autonomous vehicles and big data, technology moves fast. The exhibi...

Achieved the EU certification and received European Whole Vehicle Type Approval (EUWVTA), the Arrival electric bus is set to start public road trials with First Bus in Q3 2022 (the company was expected commence trials in Q1 2022). Arrival reports that demand for products grew with non-binding LOIs a...

Happy birthday, Switch Mobility. The Anglo-Indian company (formerly Optare) celebrates one year of life and does so with satisfactory numbers: three hundred buses on the road, 650 vehicles ordered and 1,200 in the pipeline. In addition, the company has expanded its range of action and presence: toda...

Lisbon-based predictive fleet maintenance platform Stratio is going to present at IT-TRANS 2022 the findings of the Battery Cortex Project on predictive battery analytics for Electric Vehicles (EVs), conducted in partnership with the University of Halmstad, a leading research body in the field of In...

INIT has now signed a master agreement with California Integrated Travel Project (Cal-ITP)’s procuring agency, the California Department of General Services (DGS), to deploy an open-loop fare system throughout California and other U.S. states. According to the agreement, the integrated mobilit...

Iveco Bus will deliver five 12-metre E-Way electric buses that will contribute to making the fleet of Seville’s Urban Transport (TUSSAM) more sustainable. The E-WAY chosen by TUSSAM will feature a synchronous electric traction motor with a nominal power of 160 kW and NMC Lithium-Ion ZEN batter...

Deutsche Bahn (DB) is investing 400 million euros for the renewal of bus fleets. From 2023 to 2026, around 1,200 vehicles are to be delivered, including 260 electric buses. DB has now concluded a corresponding framework agreement with the manufacturers MAN and Ebusco, from which it can call up the v...

(E)missionZero and an electric double decker for the city of Hong Kong. These are the two novelties presented in recent days by Bravo Transport, the company that owns the two operators CityBus and New World First Bus. The name speaks for itself and #MissionZero is the name of the campaign-strategy o...

The first Solaris electric buses have arrived in the Czech Republic. The debut of the vehicles of the Polish manufacturer has arrived on the asphalt of the streets of Ostrava; here, in fact, the parent company has signed a contract with the operator Dopravní podnik Ostrava (DPO) for the supply of 24...