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By Rune Prytz, head of research at Stratio Public transport companies play a major role in making the achievement of climate goals possible. By electrifying their fleets and by offering a service that is efficient, reliable, and capillary, transport operators have the chance to not only reduce the e...

Below, a contribution fromTUMI – Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative.It’s the fourth of a series of articles focusing on TUMI E-Bus Mission.Funded by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and participated by organizations such as C40 Cities, GIZ, ICCT...

On-demand vehicle routing and management platform The Routing Company has named Lindy Norris as Vice President of Marketing and Policy. Matt Horton has joined the Board of Directors. The announcement follows the recent addition of industry veteran Dick Alexander, who joined TRC as Vice President of ...

From Portugal to Andalusia is a short step. So here’s Caetano taking center stage in a demonstration in Malaga, showing off the technology of the H2 City Gold, the hydrogen-powered, zero-emission bus made in Portugal. A technology that is of great interest to the Spanish city, which is committ...

Just a few more weeks and the curtain will rise on the 2022 edition of IAA Transportation in Hannover, scheduled for September 20-25. A landmark trade fair for the world of transportation and logistics, which has been revamped to better accommodate instances and players from the bus, commercial vehi...

Alexander Dennis has taken a second order for its new Enviro500EV electric double deck bus, this time from Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation. Delivery will be in 2023. Government-owned MTR Corporation provides Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway urban rail system including a network of feeder bus services, f...

The German city of Halle (Saale), too, is resolutely relying on trams as the ecological transport of excellence, and is doing so with an innovative vehicle, the TINA. After Darmstad’s HEAG Mobilo, Basel Land Transport (BLT) and Rostocker Strassenbahnen (RSAG), the nice German city will also ro...

Optibus has been declared as one of the winners of the Better e-Bus Challenge 2022, organized by the World Resources Institute India (WRI) with support from the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) E-Bus Mission, to discover technological solutions for transforming the public bus sector. ...

The city of Seville will receive two new trams. On 21 July 2022, the City Council of Seville signed a contract with the CAF group to supply two new vehicles, with an option for three more, for the tram line currently operating in the city. The new vehicles, to be delivered in 2023 to TUSSAM, [&helli...

Pelican have announced during August that they are launching a new, smaller zero emission vehicle, named Yutong E9. The E9 has an overall length of 8.94 metre, and a width of 2.42 metre. The vehicle will be highly manoeuvrable, and ideal for both rural and urban applications, the dealer points out. ...