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Over half of passengers now use contactless on the Tyne and Wear Metro
Nexus introduced ticket machines that accept card and contactless payments, as well as notes and coins, in 2013.
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ITC 2019 in review: developing complete and connected trips for all
Intelligent Transport's Luke Antoniou provides a summary of the stand-out insights from the 2019 Intelligent Transport Conference, featuring contribution from one of the Conference chairs, Carol Schweiger.
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Washington Metrorail records increase of seven million trips in 2019
Total rail ridership was recorded as 182 million trips for 2019, compared to 175 million in 2018 - an increase of four per cent.
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Surveys reveal British knowledge and views of e-scooters
Of those surveyed, almost 20 per cent said it was legal to ride an e-scooter on public roads, 10 per cent said it was legal to ride on the pavement and 32 per cent were not able to answer or said they did not know.
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TfL to create 7,800 new cycle parking spaces across London’s boroughs
The Mayor and TfL have committed to increase the number of journeys made in London by walking, cycling or public transport from 63 per cent to 80 per cent by 2041.
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Birmingham publishes draft Transport Plan
The draft Birmingham Transport Plan focuses on four key areas which include points such as moving away from singly occupancy vehicles, restricting access to the city centre and promoting walking and cycling.
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Dubai enables public design and proposal of new bus routes
This initiative, which is available through the RTA Dubai smart app, is said to be based on raising customer’s satisfaction and happiness rating, which aims to increase bus ridership as a result.
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Forging ahead with integration and the French mobility revolution
Intelligent Transport’s Sam Mehmet speaks with Keolis Group’s Kara Livingston about the operator’s views and focus on the past, present and future drivers of the mobility agenda.
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Cubic and Moovit partner to deliver improved mobile experiences
Under the partnership, Cubic will reportedly integrate Moovit’s MaaS APIs with Cubic’s Traveller App to include service alerts, nearby transit service lines, multimodal trip planning and real-time arrival information.
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TfGM Metrolink annual ridership more than doubles in past decade
The network has expanded into seven of the 10 Greater Manchester boroughs, as well as a second city crossing with a new stop at Exchange Square and fully refurbished stops at Deansgate Castlefield and St Peter’s Square.
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Study finds spike in e-scooter injuries in the U.S.
Nearly a third of the patients reportedly suffered head trauma - more than twice the rate of head injuries to bicyclists - and approximately a third of the e-scooter injuries were to women.
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Ireland records increase of 24 million passengers on public transport
According to the National Transport Authority (NTA), the figures indicate a positive response from members of the travelling public to investment in public transport in recent years.
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Dubai RTA reaches milestone of over a billion taxi riders
Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has indicated that the taxi fleet recorded an exponential growth from 81 to 5,201 vehicles, with the number of drivers increasing from 886 to 11,500 between 1995 and 2019.
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UK open bus data service to be launched in 2020
The Bus Open Data Service will be structured by new regulations which will mean bus operators are legally required to provide route and timetable data by the end of 2020 and fare, ticket and location data by 2021.
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O2 joins pilot to connect the London Jubilee Line to 4G
The project is said to fall in line with O2’s focus on providing service where customers need it most, with the London Underground a notorious ‘not-spot’ for mobile signal to date.