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Translink has rolled out a national account-based ticketing (ABT) system covering Northern Ireland. Passengers using the Translink Metro bus network in Belfast are benefiting from contactless payment technology as part of the operator’s Future Ticketing System, which has been developed in partnershi...

ATM Milano has awarded a €368m framework agreement for the manufacturing of 46 new metro trains for the Milan metro, to Hitachi Rail. The award is part of ATM’s massive investment plan to deliver an increasingly sustainable and technologically advanced public transport system (part of this project i...

Benteler is establishing a new brand identity under the name of Holon. The Benteler EV Systems business unit, which was spun off at the end of 2021, will change its name consequently. As Holon, the company will in future focus on the business with fully electric, autonomous movers. At CES 2023 in La...

Spanish doors and ramps supplier Masats hosted the Quo Vadis CBM workshop on 20 October organised by IN-MOVE by Railgrup and the members of the #CBM Working Group, of which Masats is a member. The workshop allowed to share efforts and to know the vision of operators, constructors and components indu...

Shell Deutschland has signed an agreement with Schaltbau Holding AG to buy 100% stake in SBRS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Schaltbau Holding AG (a provider of charging infrastructure solutions for commercial electric vehicles, including e-buses, e-trucks and e-vans). The transaction is expected to ...

Transit Systems has celebrated three years of running Australia’s largest battery electric bus network and depot, with over 2 million customers in New South Wales stepping on board. In Sydney, battery electric buses operated by Transit Systems are in service across the Inner West routes and school s...

Deutsche Bahn-owned tech company ioki has supplied software for EU-funded services in Switzerland and Luxembourg. Since September 2021, ioki has been a software-as-a-service partner of the EU-funded project “Autonomous Vehicles to Evolve to a New Urban Experience” (AVENUE for short). The project tha...

Solaris will deliver four Urbino 12 hydrogen buses to Venice. The contracts were concluded with Italian carriers AVM Venezia and ACTV SPA Venezia. The 12-metre hydrogen-fuelled buses will arrive in Italy in mid-2023, and the total value of the contra...

Equipmake showcased at Euro Bus Expo a zero-emission repowered version of the New Routemaster double-decker bus. This process sees its hybrid drivetrain completely replaced with Equipmake’s Zero Emission Drivetrain (ZED), which uses 95% British-built component content. The repowered New Routemaster,...

Vattenfall has delivered 32 fast chargers to Tide Bus in Denmark’s fifth largest city, Vejle. The delivery is Vattenfall’s first Power-as-a-Service project for passenger transport in Denmark. “It’ll be followed by more”, company says. Vattenfall manages chargers and sup...