Electronic ‘book-style’ technology showing bus timetable, ticket price and real time service information has gone on trial in the West Midlands in what is thought to be a world first. Transport authority, Centro, is trialling an information suite featuring eight e-paper screens, similar to those found in gadgets such as the Kindle, at a bus […]
Showbus, the UK’s biggest bus and coach rally, is being held at a new venue at Long Marston Airfield, just south of Stratford-upon-Avon, on 22 September. The event has attracted entries from across the UK and abroad, including the show debut of Darren Cunningham’s Greyhound Scenicruiser, the iconic American Greyhound coach of the fifties. There […]
Reading Buses CEO, James Freeman, has said the 11 ADL bodied Scania gas buses in his fleet ‘have been operating faultlessly’ over the four months they have been in operation. They are being used on Reading Borough Council’s greenwave routes. It is three months since the rest of the 20 strong gas bus fleet were […]
French transport giant, RATP Group, has described its operating record and financial results for the half year ending 30 June 2013 as ‘very sound’. Group revenue amounted to £2,219.5m/EUROS2,619m, up 4.1% compared to the same period in 2012. Its net results rose 27.5% over the last six months to £161m/EUROS190m. RATP’s subsidiary, RATP Dev, continues […]
trentbarton has launched its new ‘trentbarton live’ service, which offers smartphone and tablet users up-to-the-minute information on bus departure times for their current location. It will also provide information for customers at bus stops that are equipped with special screens. Over the coming months, more of these screens are to be installed across the operator’s […]
Go North East has extended its Coaster service to re-establish a bus link to Newcastle for residents of Allerdene and Harlow Green in Gateshead. The move followed a public consultation in the local area undertaken by the Go-Ahead owned operator. The Coaster will run every 15 minutes between Whitley Bay and Gateshead, with buses then […]
Profits in the UK bus industry fell for the second successive year in 2011/12, according to The TAS Partnership’s 22nd annual Bus Industry Performance report. The report says operators have continued to control costs, with increases ‘well below inflation’. At the same time, revenue growth was also well under inflation, implying a sharp real-term fall […]
The DfT has announced £5m worth of funding for 11 local authorities under its Clean Bus Technology Fund. The money is to enable almost 400 buses to be upgraded to help reduce pollution. The government department has already provided £5m of funding, match-funded by the Mayor of London, to fit 900 of the capital’s buses […]