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The Coach Tourism Association Conference & Workshop 2025 achieved its best-ever attendance as 200 members came to Stratford-upon-Avon, 8-11 February. The main business session saw a record number of 1,200 meetings at the Meet the Buyer Workshop.  With Gold Sponsor DFDS and Silver Sponsor Trust M...

In 2024, the electric city bus market in Europe (including the UK) grew 22% on 2023, reaching the figure of 7,779 electric bus registrations (over 8 ton). The contribution of UK market to the overall picture is a major one: while the e-bus market in EU27 saw Daimler Buses and Iveco Bus (the stronges...

Serena Lancione, current managing director of Turin public transport carrier GTT, has been elected as president of the European division UITP, the International Union of Public Transport. Her mandate will begin on 19 June 2025, immediately after the UITP Summit in Hamburg, scheduled to take place in...

A project has been launched in Europe aiming to improve electric bus fleet management by optimizing battery aging analysis using the State of Health (SoH) parameter. Named SoH Fleet project, is led by ACTIA Automotive (France) in collaboration with CARNET (Spain), Keolis Blois (France), and TMB (Spa...

KleanDrive is launching a new version of its electric bus repowering solution, adopting CATL-made LFP battery cells and Voith motors. They both go together with all the power electronics in a unique framework and skid system. KleanDrive powertrain features usable battery capacity of 324 kWh (352 kWh...

On-demand vehicle routing and management platform The Routing Company is entering a new partnership in Southern California, jointly with the City of Whittier and its transit operator, the Parking Company of America. This partnership marks TRC’s first deployment in Southern California, but establishe...

2024 has been Temsa most successful year in a decade in terms of sales volume. The Turkish manufacturer states it has achieved a +320% increase in revenue in USD terms over the last four years, reaching $462.1 million by the end of 2024 (68% of earnings generated from international markets). Revenue...

INIT is overseeing the modernisation of the nationwide Global Telematics System (GloTel) in Luxembourg. The new contract with the Administration of Public Transport (ATP) includes the migration of the existing Intermodal Transport Control System to the next generation MOBILE-ITCS nextGen as well as ...

Before the pandemic, the Chinese group’s subsidiary Alfabus Europe had nested in Italy and tried to position itself in the Italian market, with a couple of units placed in Cremona and a market offensive slowed down by the pandemic. But the company did not stop. Today Alfabus Europa is still ba...

MPK Poznań has signed a contract with the domestic manufacturer Solaris Bus & Coach for the delivery of five new Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen buses, immediately opting to expand the order by four additional vehicles. Therefore, the agreement is for a total of nine fuel cell buses. They will hit th...