Bus News
Merseytravel Walrus smartcard reaches million ticket sales
Merseytravel’s smart ticketing scheme has reached the major milestone of one million ticket sales in the space of 15 months.
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Bus News
Merseytravel hits smart ticketing milestone
Growth expected to accelerate as network coverage and ticketing options on the service grow Merseytravel’s smart ticketing scheme – already the most active outside London – has reached a major milestone with a million tickets […]
Bus News
Big Five bus operators deliver on smart-ticketing pledge
Operators deliver on pledge to introduce multi-operator smart-ticketing in metropolitan areas, with a quarter of the English population expected to benefit The ‘Big Five’ UK bus operators have completed the roll-out of smart, multi-operator ticketing […]
Bus News
New North East multi-operator smartcard
The smartcards of Go North East, Stagecoach North East and Arriva in the area will all be usable on each other’s services Smart, multi-operator ticketing launched in the north east of England on Monday, December […]
Bus News
New multi-operator smartcard launches in Manchester
Scheme offers 10% discount on fare prices and includes 30 bus operators in the Greater Manchester area A new multi-operator smart ticketing scheme has been introduced in Manchester.
Bus News
Norfolk to trial £2.5m multioperator smartcard
Transport Minister Norman Baker has approved Norfolk County Council’s (NCC) proposals for a demonstration project which will see smartcard technology rolled out to all county bus operators by 2015.
Bus News
trent barton’s smartcard milestone
Mango, the smartcard used by trent barton has reached a milestone following the announcement a quarter of all passenger journeys are paid for using the card. Customers can pay in advance of their journey and […]
Bus News
Touch and Go aboard Network Warrington
Municipally-owned operator Network Warrington has launched its new range of smartcards called Touch&Go! The new plastic cards have an in-built chip, meaning that on boarding the bus, customers just touch the target on the ticket […]
Financial
Go-Ahead growth boosted by smartcard
Revenue growth of 3.5% expected, bus operations both in and outside London “performing well” says Big Five operator Go-Ahead Group plc is expecting to achieve revenue growth of around 3.5% for the first half of […]
Technology
Thamesdown gets aboard with ITSO from Parkeon
Thamesdown Transport’s bus network is to benefit from advanced ticketing technology utilising Parkeon’s Wayfarer200 platform which is able to dual read ITSO concessionary passes and its own commercial smartcard scheme. Thamesdown has brought forward the […]
