International

SWITZERLAND Family-owned Furrer+Frey, which provides development, design, planning, construction and maintenance of overhead contact line systems for public transport, including trams and trolleybuses, is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The company, which also develops and builds […]

FRANCE Transdev, Keolis and Lacroix-Savac have been chosen to operate routes in the Ile-de-France Mobilités network in the Greater Paris region, as part of the gradual opening up of competition for bus networks. As part […]

FRANCE The unusual TVR guided trolleybus system in the French city of Nancy closed on Sunday 12 March, in preparation for the conversion of the route to conventional trolleybus operation. The double-articulated TVR vehicles used […]

NORTH AMERICA Transdev Group has completed the acquisition of First Transit, making it one of the largest private-sector operators of mobility solutions in North America. Described by the Group as a strategic move, the company […]

UZBEKISTAN A new export record for Yutong will see the delivery of 800 CNG and electric buses to Uzbekistan. The order consists of 300 Yuwei E12s and 500 CNG buses of two different models. The […]

ITALY Sardinia’s largest public transport company ARST has ordered 100 low-emission Urbino 12 hybrid buses from Solaris, which will join many other Solaris products on the Italian island. The new hybrid buses will be delivered […]

BELGIUM Belgian public transport provider Opérateur de Transport de Wallonie (OTW), operating under the more familiar commercial name TEC, has ordered 97 Volvo 7900 S-Charge hybrid buses. The order follows recent deliveries of Volvo hybrids […]

GERMANY MAN Truck & Bus is reorganising the management of its bus business as part of a comprehensive package of measures which it says will transform the business unit. In the newly created role of […]

SWEDEN Ebusco has signed a new contract with Swedish operator Svealandstrafiken for up to 64 buses. The contract comprises 23 Ebusco 3.0 13.5-metre buses to be delivered in the second half of 2024, and an […]