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4 February 2016 | By Ezio Castagna (CEO), Proto Tilocca (Senior Manager), Roberto Murra (President)
Cagliari, a city of approximately 150,000 inhabitants, is the regional capital of the Italian island of Sardinia, as well as the main centre of a vast metropolitan area. In order to enhance the accessibility of the city’s public transport network, CTM SpA is implementing a strategy to invest in new…
14 July 2014 | By Doug Jack
All expert opinion predicts that an ever greater percentage of the world’s population will be living in urban areas within the next 18-20 years. In China alone, around 10 million people per annum move from the countryside to rapidly-expanding cities, in search of employment. This rapid growth in urban population…
14 July 2014 | By Arno Kerkhof (UITP)
Fortunately the theme of urban mobility has gained increasing prominence in discussions at all levels. For the International Association of Public Transport, UITP, knowledge management and studies related to Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems has always been addressed as the main item of a positive agenda. UITP support for BRT…
11 November 2008 | By Roland Bonzon, CEO, Geneva Public Transport (TPG)
In Switzerland, the Lake Geneva region, and more particularly the Geneva conurbation, is at the very heart of an unprecedented demographic change, where demand for public transport is very high. Geneva Public Transport (TPG) is one of the few creditable responses to the exponential growth in mobility, which makes its…
22 January 2013 | By Dávid Vitézy, CEO and Member of the Management Board, BKK Centre for Budapest Transport
Public transport first appeared in Hungarian capital city Budapest in the early 19th century in the form of the omnibus and later the horse tramway. These were followed by modes of transport that were revolutionary for those times: Europe’s second funicular connected the Castle Hill with the Danube riverbank while…
22 September 2020 | By Intelligent Transport
A statement says that Moovizy 2 is the only application in France to allow users to manage all means of transport in a single solution.
8 June 2015 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Intelligent Transport
Two versions of the new Solaris Urbino have been officially launched today at UITP World Congress & Exhibition 2015.
22 September 2016 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Intelligent Transport
Stadler and bus and tram manufacturer Solaris have launched a light rail partnership which will see it bid for contracts in Poland and other European markets.
11 October 2016 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Intelligent Transport
Keolis, the incumbent operator of the TCL public transport network in Lyon, is to continue operations following almost 24 months of negotiations.
7 November 2016 | By Katie Sadler, Digital Content Producer, Intelligent Transport
Latvian public transport operator Rigas Satiksme has signed an agreement with Solaris for delivery of ten low-floor hydrogen-powered trolleybuses.
8 March 2011 | By Vossloh Kiepe GmbH
The redesigned articulated vehicles from Van Hool will be outfitted with electric traction equipment and a brake energy storage capacitor from Vossloh Kiepe...
25 April 2018 | By Intelligent Transport
The Bus Display at InnoTrans 2018 is focusing on the necessary electrification within public transport networks, demonstrating new solutions and bus models…
20 September 2018 | By Intelligent Transport
Solaris has delivered nearly 200 buses with an electric drive so far and another 130 are being assembled, with nearly 2,000 electric bus studies completed.
6 August 2020 | By Sam Mehmet (Intelligent Transport)
Within the next edition of The Sustainable Bus Update, we summarise the most recent and standout sustainable bus purchases and developments from across the globe.
11 November 2013 | By Ueli Stückelberger, Director, Swiss Association of Public Transport
The story of public transport in Switzerland is an impressively successful one: while passenger journeys have increased by over 30% since 2001, the rise in the number of passenger kilometres has been even higher at almost 40%. At the same time, transport companies have massively increased their workforce productivity in…
