A recent survey by Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) (B&CB 1307, 19 December 2014) showed Peterborough was the most car dependant city in England, despite the city’s ambition to become the environmental capital of the UK. It was not without raised eyebrows therefore that the latest report from the CBT (B&CB 1310, 16 January 2015) […]
Few topics engage the industry and its stakeholders at all levels in the way that improving air quality does. It seems the public at large and many politicians too do not appreciate the lengths or the expense that manufacturers and operators have gone to in order to comply with the various euro emission levels, and […]
It was in 1999 when John Prescott’s ‘carthorse to thoroughbred’ vision was motivating the industry that the last UK Bus Summit was held. Clearly another was due and Transport Times under its Chief Executive, Professor David Begg, organised it last week at Kings Place, round the corner from Kings Cross Station. It brought together a […]
It was only in 2011 that the Spanish manufacturer, Irizar, showed its first fully integral DAF powered coach products at the NEC show. The subsequent formation of the new Irizar UK dealership to market them in the UK has been highly successful, consistently exceeding sales targets for the product from day one. The two key […]
It seems hardly comprehensible that one manufacturer could be producing 60,000 buses annually but that is what Yutong did last year. It is the biggest manufacturer of buses and coaches not only in China but in the world. By no means all of them are big buses; they range from small minibuses to double deckers […]
The 2015 Federation of Passenger Transport Northern Ireland (FPTNI) Awards were held last weekend at the Galgorm Manor Hotel in Ballymena, County Antrim. Keynote speaker was Danny Kennedy, Minister for Regional Development in the Northern Ireland Government. The Department for Regional Development (DRD) has overall responsibility for the public transport network in Northern Ireland. Unlike […]
Time is money, they say, so surely it should be as carefully managed as your bank account. True of all aspects of business, this is especially so in the workshop where keeping vehicle downtime to a minimum is essential and effective time management could well lead to improved turnover. EMACS offers a system aimed at […]
Coastal Red Ltd, trading as Lynx is a new bus company that began operating in King’s Lynn last month. The team behind it is Steve Challis, Andy Warnes and Julian Patterson though Julian only became involved at a late stage of planning for contractual reasons linked to his previous role as MD of Go Ahead’s […]