Bath Bus Company, part of the RATP Group, has taken delivery of two new Volvo B5TL double deckers, the company’s first Euro6 vehicles. Featuring UNVI Urbis 25 bodywork with half canopy upper deck for sightseeing, the buses have a passenger capacity of 79. They will be deployed on tourist routes throughout the World Heritage City […]
Penrith based K&B Travel has added a Mercedes-Benz Tourismo to its fleet. Built to Touring Plus specification, the coach has 49 seats in part-leather fabric, Luxline upholstery, dual 19inch LCD monitors, air conditioning with overhead service controls and Wi-Fi, as well as a centre toilet and onboard kitchen with hot water boiler. Power is delivered […]
Jewels Tours of Gravesend, Kent has added a third Scania to its fleet. The new coach has an Irizar i6 body based on the Scania K 440 EB6x2*4 chassis with Scania’s fully automated Opticruise gear selection system. It has 53 upgraded PB seats fitted in its 12.9m body with tables, nets and multi-position footrests. The […]
TfL has taken on a record number of new graduate trainees. The 168 university leavers and ‘Year in Industry’ students are working across 19 schemes, ranging from quantity surveying, engineering, software development, information management, finance and transport planning. The ‘Year in Industry’ students are on a 12 month placement before returning to their final year […]
A new look £1m bus station and cycle hub has opened in Leigh, Greater Manchester. The facility is a key part of the bus priority package currently being introduced in the region. It is to serve as a terminus for guided busway services linking passengers with Leigh, Atherton and Tyldesley, Salford and Manchester city centre […]
Senior traffic police officers from all over Europe have called for better protection of vulnerable road users at the recent conference of TISPOL, the European Traffic Police Network. Attendees also urged greater efforts to rid Europe’s roads of the most dangerous drivers. Another message at the conference was that road safety targets are a good […]
UK transport infrastructure investment is projected to increase at an average annual rate of about 5% between 2014 and 2025, according to analysis by multinational professional services network, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Rail infrastructure and airports investment is expected to almost double by 2025, with growth rates of over 6% per annum respectively. Investment in sea ports […]
Professor Richard Wilding OBE FCILT is the new Chairman of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK (CILT). Richard has been a member of the Institute since 1992 and a Board member since 2011. He is also Chair (Full Professor) in Supply Chain Strategy at the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain […]