National Express Group has signed two contracts worth a combined €1bn/£0.72bn to operate the Rhine-Ruhr Express (RRX) service in Germany. The company had previously been named the preferred bidder for the contracts in June. They are two of the three contracts that cover RRX services, which operate between cities including Cologne, Dusseldorf and Dortmund, […]
Country roads are the deadliest according to new figures from the DfT, with an average of three people dying on them every day last year. In total, 1,040 people were killed and 9,051 seriously injured on country roads in 2014, with 348 fatalities occurring on a bend. In response, THINK! has launched a new […]
Cardiff Bus has added twenty new buses to its fleet, completing a three year, £3.5M investment strategy. Ten Mercedes-Benz Citaro single decks and ten ADL Enviro400 double decks will be used across the operator’s network covering Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan with a link to Newport. The Euro6 engined vehicles are fully accessible and […]
A new link road in Devon between Newton Abbot’s Penn Inn roundabout and Torquay’s Kerswell gardens bypassing the bottleneck of Kingskerswell on the A380 is nearing completion. The new road will formally be known as the South Devon Highway and it is expected to be in use by December with landscaping to continue into the […]
According to a recent piece of research by Travel Republic, the travel search website, it is cheaper to travel by London bus than it is by a Tuk Tuk in Thailand. It costs 42p a mile when travelling in the capital on the bus, while the iconic Thai transport (often thought of as being extremely […]
Arriva owned Yorkshire Tiger has announced that Thierry Couturier has joined the company as MD. Thierry has experience working in the bus industry in London and Paris, with previous posts including MD at London Sovereign and Business Development Executive at Transdev. Regional MD, Nigel Featham, said, ‘Yorkshire Tiger is a great business with a brand […]
Advertising business, Exterion Media, has commissioned independent scientific research into the impact of bus advertising on the high street. Carried out in collaboration with i2Media Research lab Sparkler, the results show that tailoring advertisements to the specific frame of mind of the consumers, regardless of their attitude or general level of attention, increased the chances […]
Daimler Daimler’s bus division recorded what it described as ‘slightly lower’ revenue in the third quarter of this year, totaling €1,018m/£732.44m (Q3 2014: €1,034m/£743.95m). This was deemed to be caused by falling unit sales in Latin America. However, the bus division’s EBIT of €89m/£64.03m was significantly above the prior year level (Q3 2014: €64m/£46.05m), while […]