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Growth through innovation – Lausanne’s new driverless metro

31 October 2011 | By Marc Badoux, Deputy Director, tl (Transports publics de la région lausannoise)

Lausanne’s new driverless metro line – named m2 – began commercial service in October 2008. The new line has boosted the ridership of the city’s public transportation network which has increased by almost 30% since commercial service started. Costing approximately £600 million, this remarkable ‘micrometro’ has 14 passenger-friendly stations and…

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The technological key to traffic management

18 October 2017 | By Miroslav Dressler - DPMB

Miroslav Dressler, Head of the Traffic Management Department at DPMB, explains how technology is central to running a modern, efficient, and ever-prepared public transport control room.

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Battery buses: Prague’s electrifying future

11 October 2017 | By Jan Barchanek (DPP)

Jan Barchanek, Deputy Manager, Bus Operation Unit, Prague Public Transit Company (DPP), explains how electrification has become Prague’s most economically viable option for environmentally cleaner bus routes.

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Strengthening accessibility in Cagliari through buses

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…

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Bus Rapid Transit: the flexible option for passengers

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…

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Brazilian Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) networks lead the way

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…

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Dealing with the mobility challenge in the Geneva region

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…

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Riga keeps on modernising public transport and electronic services

22 January 2013 | By Leons Bemhens, Chairman of the Board, RP SIA Rīgas satiksme

During the last two years, Rīgas satiksme (the Riga public transport company) has continued its programme of significant changes by successfully developing the potential of electronic payment services, expanding the fleet of low-floor trams as well as achieving the best passenger satisfaction results in the last 14 years. Riga keeps…

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Four new trolleybuses in Limoge

23 April 2013 | By Vossloh Kiepe

Approved and in Line-Service Operation: Four new articulated trolleybuses from Vossloh Kiepe and Hess for the French city of Limoges...

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Passenger operation in Saudi Arabia: Twelve trolleybuses from Viseon and Vossloh Kiepe have been put into operation in Riyadh

2 May 2013 | By Vossloh Kiepe

Twelve innovative trolleybuses manufactured...

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Electric bus with dynamic recharging

12 November 2014 | By Vossloh Kiepe

Esslingen orders four electric battery trolleybuses from the consortium partners Vossloh Kiepe GmbH and Solaris Bus & Coach...

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Solaris clocks in more than 10 million kilometres with its electric buses

15 January 2019 | By Intelligent Transport

Electric buses are more economical in use, they are noise and emission-free, and it is these vehicles that, according to Solaris, represent the future of city transport.

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Examining the cost benefits of contactless e-ticketing in public transport

25 January 2021 | By Switchio

The latest in contactless ticketing technology has the capability to save public transport authorities as much as 85 per cent in costs – as illustrated by the work that the Czech city of Ostrava has done with Switchio.

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Zurich prepares to move with the times

11 November 2013 | By Jacques Baumann, Deputy Director and Divisional Head of Marketing, Zurich Public Transport

The city of Zurich in north-central Switzerland is experiencing enormous growth. By 2030, jobs and residents in the city are expected to increase by 15% and 20% respectively. Public transport needs to keep pace with this growth as failure to do so could result in gridlock because traffic congestion has…

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Increasing the public transport offering for a growing city

11 November 2013 | By Michel Joye, Director, Transports publics de la région lausannoise SA (tl)

Lausanne – the capital of the canton of Vaud situated in the heart of Europe on the shores of Lake Geneva – is home to the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), the IMD and the Béjart Ballet, which together with other leading…