Registrations decline in first quarter. Double-digit drop for double- and single-deckers, but minibuses bounce back. New bus and coach registrations fell 4.5% in the first quarter of 2018, according to Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) figures. There were 1,793 PCVs hitting the UK’s roads in the period. This is the fifth consecutive quarter […]
After European success, German coach distruptor aims for over 1,000 daily connections for the States European intercity coach operator, FlixBus, is bringing its business model to the United States. Five years after its first European routes, FlixBus is to run services between US cities including LA, San Diego, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Tucson on 31 […]
With a recent delivery of 16 ADL Enviro400H double-deckers for Abellio London, the alliance between the operator and the manufacturer has strengthened. The new hybrids will boost the Abellio London fleet towards the 800 mark, with a staggering 85% of those being made by ADL. Business between the two companies now totals over £100m since […]
In the latest stage of a diversification strategy it started in 2009, Irizar has officially opened the new plant at Aduna in northern Spain. The site is home to Irizar e-Mobility, the seventh business within the Group. Here it is building its growing range of electric vehicles, employing a very high degree of in-house developed […]
That does rather depend on whether the Grim Reaper spares me for another decade or so, but despite all the advances in emissions control for diesels (and bus and coach engines are, beyond doubt, very clean) two spectres hover over them. The first is the problem of fossil fuels. While it’s possible to run compression-ignition […]
Dear Mrs Greenwood, I was a keen observer of the Transport Select Committee debate on Community Transport, focused on the use of Section 19 and 22 permits, at which both sides of the debate – commercial operators and the CT operators – were represented. I was therefore shocked to read Hansard and to discover […]
Reading Buses CEO, Martijn Gilbert, is to leave his post at the end of July. Martijn is to take up the role of MD at Go-Ahead Group’s Go North East operation, based in Newcastle. He is to take over from Kevin Carr, who is set to retire. Martijn has held his role at Reading since […]
Go-Ahead owned Oxford Bus Company is to launch what it describes as the UK’s most ambitious demand-responsive bus service. Launching on 25 June, the PickMeUp service will enable residents, workers and students in a 12.2 square mile area around Oxford to request a bus pick-up within minutes at a virtual bus-stop using a new mobile […]