AUSTRIA Austrian operator Rheintal Busverkehr has purchased 16 Solaris Urbino 9 LE electric vehicles, of which 11 will be delivered in 2024 and a further five in 2025. The low-entry nine-metre vehicles will serve passengers […]
GERMANY As part of Germany’s National Innovation Programme for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NIP II), Cologne operator RVK has received aproval for the construction and operation of a hydrogen filling station including an electrolyser […]
Early May saw the annual industry pilgrimage to Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre for ITT Hub. Richard Sharman reports on the latest innovations that were on display Wednesday and Thursday 10 and 11 May […]
Jonathan Welch visits Muirhead Leather to learn how it produces its low-impact leather products, which are to be found across the transport industry If the question were ‘name a quality material produced in the rolling […]
The UK’s first full-size autonomous buses started carrying passengers on 15 May. Jonathan Welch reports on the launch Following on from a depot based trial with Stagecoach and the more recent launch of the autonomous […]
Operators from as far away as Yorkshire will be supporting the Fenland BusFest in Cambridgeshire on Sunday 21 May. There’ll be free classic bus rides all day from Whittlesey Market Place to Peterborough, Yaxley, March, […]
The events season kicked off in style in the West Midlands, reports Nick Larkin Double-deckers from the 2000s back to the 1930s carried passengers during Transport Museum Wythall’s season-opening running days. The events, on Easter […]
An eight-year-old Ukrainian refugee has been reunited with the only toy she brought to the UK after misplacing it on a bus – thanks to a kind-hearted bus driver turned detective. Passenger Sofiia arrived in […]
National Express West Midlands has introduced what it says is the UK’s largest on-bus ticket scanning system to read and validate mobile tickets (m-tickets), in partnership with Masabi and INIT. The operator says the new […]
Volvo Buses has signed a Letter of Intent with bodybuilder Sunsundegui to produce bodies under licence for the 9700 and 9900. Production is expected to start in 2024, with the first models on the market […]
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