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West Coast Motors is set to introduce ten open-top Wrightbus StreetDeck Electroliner battery-electric double-deckers to enhance the City Sightseeing Glasgow operation during the upcoming spring and summer months, the manufacturer announced on Linkedin. Vehicles are set to be deployed in the Red Rout...

German public transport operator Stadtwerke Münster chose to rely on the IVU.suite, helping to counter the shortage of skilled labour. Last year also Stadtwerke Solingen had chosen IVU to achieve a standardized management of all bus operations. The local minicipal company from Münster and IVU have b...

Mobility Move is live until 7th March at the Hotel Estrel in Berlin. The one underway is the most successful edition of the event promoted by the VDV and until 2022 named ElekBu. 1,400 attendees are expected by 90 exhibitors. Mobility Move 2024 in Berlin: MAN and BYD MAN showed the autonomous b...

INIT has been awarded a contract to supply a new technology system for London’s buses, to which on-board, back office and support services will be provided Specific to the order, INIT will provide an on-board computer (OBU) and ancillary devices for all buses in Transport for London’s fl...

After the opening of line 58, it is the turn of line 59. On Wednesday 6 March 2024 Prague trolleybus line 59 will be opened to the public, completely replacing line 119, which runs from the Veleslavín railway station to Prague Airport “Václav Havel”. The diesel buses will be replaced by ...

First Bus is introducing the largest fleet of zero emission buses in West Yorkshire. A fleet of 57 electric buses sourced by Wrightbus is beginning to appear on the network and due to be completed by the end of March. The bus operator made the announcement today Tuesday 5 March as directors joined w...

Solaris is using the opportunity of Mobility Move 2024 in Berlin to present a new version of its best-seller, i.e. the Solaris Urbino 12 electric bus featuring an innovative propulsion design and new batteries providing “an impressive range”, ...

“Significant growth in sales and profits and continued progress in sustainability performance“, this, in the extreme, extreme summary, is the content of the Annual and Sustainability Report released by Scania, which details its financial, social and environmental performance in 2023. Sca...

From September 17-22, 2024, IAA Transportation returns to Hannover. In recent weeks we have written about how the incoming edition includes an interesting novelty on the bus&coach side, as there will be an outdoor theme park dedicated to bus&coach. In recent years, the vocation of the Hannov...

by Stefano Alfano Benr chooses the trolleybus again. And it does so in grand style. Bernmobil, the operator of public transport in Bern, has signed a contract with Hess for the delivery of 13 24-metre double-articulated trolleybuses, model lighTram® 25 DC, similar to the 14 already in operation sinc...