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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&...

Wolftank has entered a joint consortium with Bologna public transport operator TPER. Following a public tender, the German group has been selected as operational-industrial partner for TPH2. The consortium has recently been formed and will be in charge of creating an integrated hydrogen fueling syst...

Iveco Bus has announced that it has signed a framework agreement with De Lijn, a government-owned public transport group in Flanders, for the sale of a first batch of 65 E-Way full electric city buses and “additional batches up to a total of 500 vehicles”, as the manufacturer puts it. In...

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...