Transport payments and ticketing technology specialist, UrbanThings, expects contactless payments for bus and coach fares to ultimately replace cash. Carl Partridge, UrbanThings CEO, said: “Contactless bank cards have fuelled a revolution in bringing a universal and quick payment method to the pockets of everyone. We can expect this to continue and ultimately replace cash and […]
January Fire damages buses at NatEx Walsall garage – A fire damages three buses at a National Express West Midlands’ Walsall garage, including a 2005 Alexander ALX400-bodied Dennis Trident in the colours of Walsall Corporation Transport pre-1969. NCT’s Mark Fowles in New Years Honours List – Nottingham City Transport’s (NCT’s) former- MD, Mark Fowles, has […]
Readers of the digital and paper copies of Bus & Coach Buyer will notice we have moved from linking websites with URLs – web addresses – to using QR codes. We have long been aware that, aside from clickable links, our readers were not typing in the web addresses, even when shortened – unsurprisingly. A […]
Intended to be staged biennially in the build up to the FIAA bus and coach exhibition in Madrid, the Minibus Euro Test returned last week after last year’s planned event was a Covid casualty. Organised by the Spanish magazine autobuses & autocares, IFEMA Madrid and the FIAA on behalf of the International Bus & Coach […]
I have been attending the FIAA Show every other year for decades and always enjoyed the opportunity to touch base with the country’s small coachbuilders as well as the large global players. This year it was very different because, in a coordinated decision, all of the Spanish vehicle manufacturers did not take stands; instead it […]
A report by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) has revealed reasons behind the driver shortage. The CILT survey finds the reasons behind the driver shortages are: unsociable hours, poor industry image, long hours, sub-standard facilities and poor wages. The report said: “If these factors, as well as the ‘other’ responses, show the […]
The latest Government figures released show coaches as being by far the greenest mode of transport in every aspect, including the carbon cost of building the vehicle. The statistics dramatically show the huge reduction in emissions in 2020, when the pandemic lockdowns went into operation but also amplify the supreme position occupied by buses and […]
The four-year gap since the last IAA event in Hanover has seen the event change beyond all recognition. Many, indeed most of the major bus and coach manufacturers were either absent or had only a token presence with neither Daimler Truck nor MAN featuring buses on their inside stands and others choosing to launch new […]