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22 December 2014 | By Leona Bemhens, Chairman, Rigas satiksme
In an interview for Intelligent Transport, Leons Bemhens – the company’s Chairman of the Board, discusses passenger and staff satisfaction levels, the ordering and delivery of new vehicles, plus the city’s increasingly popular electronic payment system...
22 February 2024 | By Tomasz Wojtkiewicz - Nextbike Poland
The past year has been exceptionally intense for the micro-mobility market. From the renaissance of Mobility-as-a-Service, through EU funds for local government units, to combatting transport divide, Tomasz Wojtkiewicz, CEO of Nextbike Poland, explores some of the key challenges and opportunities that have the potential to transform the whole of…
2 November 2015 | By Norbert Schmassmann – Head of Lucerne’s public transport company VBL1
What does the agglomeration of the Swiss city of Lucerne with around 200,000 inhabitants need the most – a bus or a tram system? Lucerne’s politicians and traffic experts have discussed this question over recent years following a steady increase in frequencies on its public transport network. As Norbert Schmassmann…
17 December 2015 | By Metodi Avramov, Marketing Director of the Sofia Urban Mobility Centre
Sofia’s public transport was significantly developed in the years 2007-2013, with the introduction of extended metro lines, rolling stock and traffic management systems. Following the success of these changes, Metodi Avramov, Marketing Director of the Sofia Urban Mobility Centre, discusses how the Bulgarian capital city is now focusing on improving…
26 April 2017 | By Graham Ellis
Graham discusses how Latvia is offering passengers varied and flexible travel payment solutions in part two of his payment technology series...
30 June 2010 | By John Carr, Events Coordinator, BRTuk
“BRT: the time is right” was the opening heading for my previous contribution on Bus Rapid Transit to Intelligent Transport (Issue 4 2008) at a time when most developed economies were reaping the fruits of prosperity, even if urban public transport in the UK continued to experience the pains of…
20 September 2009 | By Leon Bemhens, Chairman, Rigas satiksme
Nowadays, many local authorities take increasing care of their residents’ comfort in public transport, and hundreds of cities worldwide have already implemented and are operating electronic payment systems. One of the latest and most progressive systems was launched in Riga, the capital of Latvia, which, together with its suburbs, is…
21 August 2017 | By Jim McGeever
Jim McGeever, Associate Consultant at LuxMobility, tells Eurotransport how a new mobile app from Kaunas Public Transport is changing the way in which those with a visual impairment can access and interact with the city’s public transport services.
15 October 2016 | By Dušan Savković - JKP GSP ‘Beograd’, Jovana Paunović - JKP GSP ‘Beograd’, Slobodan Misanović - JKP GSP ‘Beograd’, Željko Milković - JKP GSP ‘Beograd’
In this article the team from the public utility company JKP GSP ‘Beograd’ – Željko Milković, Director; Dušan Savković, Executive Director for Technical Operations for Electric Subsystem; Slobodan Misanović Project Manager; and Jovana Paunović, PR – present the project for introducing a new ‘EKO1’ bus line in Belgrade, operated exclusively…
8 August 2015 | By Alberto González Pizarro
As the worldwide popularity of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) networks continues to grow, Alberto González Pizarro – BRT, Electric and CNG Buses Project Director for Keolis – highlights that it is worthwhile looking at this mode of public transport from a holistic approach when designing a network, as the role…
10 June 2015 | By Erica Ward
Almost 185 million journeys are made by bus each year in West Yorkshire, UK. West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) is committed to making travel easier and more convenient for everyone, including people whose mobility is impaired. As Erica Ward, Accessibility Officer at WYCA explains, this includes developing accessible bus stations…
18 January 2009 | By Darja Krstic, Director, LLP
The most important task of Ljubljanski potniški promet d.o.o. (LPP) is to ensure comfortable and undisturbed public transport for the Municipality of Ljubljana and the 16 suburban municipalities. Our goal is to make bus transportation the best alternative to the personal car. There are approximately 1,000 employees in LPP striving…
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.
