In the six months ended 27 December 2014, Go-Ahead Group revenue rose 13.8% to £1,558.7m (H1 2014: £1,370m). The company’s bus division ‘performed well’ during the period, with overall operating profit at £45.1m (H1 2014: £41.6m), an increase of 8.4%. In line with its target plan, the regional bus business has overtaken its London bus […]
Ipswich Buses has become the first recipient of CPT’s new and professionally recognised Workshop Accreditation. Recently designed and launched by CPT’s Engineering Committee with support from the Traffic Commissioners, the Accreditation assesses bus and coach operators’ workshops, as well as dealer workshops. It examines them against a series of in-depth engineering compliance and health and […]
Parking in Paris is set to triple in price on 1 May 2015, following a decision by the Council of Paris. French trade body, the National Federation of Passenger Transport (FNTV), denounced the method chosen for the implementation of such measures as well as what it describes as the exorbitant cost of the increase. The […]
A recent survey by Campaign for Better Transport (CBT) (B&CB 1307, 19 December 2014) showed Peterborough was the most car dependant city in England, despite the city’s ambition to become the environmental capital of the UK. It was not without raised eyebrows therefore that the latest report from the CBT (B&CB 1310, 16 January 2015) […]
Few topics engage the industry and its stakeholders at all levels in the way that improving air quality does. It seems the public at large and many politicians too do not appreciate the lengths or the expense that manufacturers and operators have gone to in order to comply with the various euro emission levels, and […]
It was in 1999 when John Prescott’s ‘carthorse to thoroughbred’ vision was motivating the industry that the last UK Bus Summit was held. Clearly another was due and Transport Times under its Chief Executive, Professor David Begg, organised it last week at Kings Place, round the corner from Kings Cross Station. It brought together a […]
As a mark of respect for those who lost their lives in the tipper truck incident in Bath on 9 February, First West of England drivers in the city will be swapping their normal uniforms to wear black on 23 February. In doing so, they will also be raising funds for the Air Ambulance, which […]
In the past year, almost 150,000 National Express Dundee smartcards have been bought. Additionally, nearly 20,000 smart Student Weeklies have been bought since the start of this academic year alone. National Express Dundee is the first in Scotland to operate a smart ticketing system which offers commercial products on the national Entitlement Card, as well […]