ComfortDelGro Corporation has launched its first, direct, non-stop express coach service connecting Stansted Airport with Kings Cross St Pancras. The concession to operate into and out of the airport’s central Coach Station was won following a competitive tendering process run by the airport. Branded ‘Stansted Citylink’, the service is now in operation. The year round […]
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has unveiled new measures TfL is introducing to ease traffic in the capital and minimise disruption on the city’s roads. Trials of new technology are to be carried out, including a new generation of digital road signs providing people with real-time information on journeys using major routes into London. They […]
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 […]
FirstGroup Plc is trading in line with management’s expectations, according to an update on its trading for the six months to 30 September 2015. Its UK Bus operations’ transformation plan continues to deliver growth in commercial passenger revenues of more than 2% in the first half. However this was partially offset by the ongoing weakness […]