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30 March 2009 | By Catt Hobbs, Public Transport Campaigner, Campaign for Better Transport
The cost of taking public transport keeps rising while the costs of driving and flying keep falling. A new approach is needed if we're going to encourage people to make low carbon choices. Government departments are gearing up for the challenge of tackling climate change. The Department for Transport is…
30 March 2009 | By John Nelson, Professor of Transport Studies and Director of Centre for Transport Research (CTR) and Brian Masson, Project Manager Centre for Transport Research (CTR), University of Aberdeen, UK
Throughout Europe, the challenge of providing an effective integrated public transport system is seen as an essential prerequisite to reducing pollution and congestion whilst encouraging sustainable economic growth especially in urban and metropolitan areas. What we often refer to as ‘conventional public transport' (fixed time and route) is ideal for…
30 March 2009 | By Craig Waters, Commissioning Editor, Intelligent Transport
In today's transportation marketplace, operators are working hard to develop their infrastructure to provide passengers with seamless travel options. Passengers travelling in many European cities can benefit from different transport modes with efficient and effective exchanges between them. A major factor in the success of seamless travel experiences is the…
18 January 2009 | By Péter Vág, Project Director and Retired Deputy CEO for Technology, BKV Zrt
In Intelligent Transport Issue 3 2006, there was an article about the Combino trams manufactured by Siemens, for operations in Budapest, Hungary. This time, we would like to provide a more detailed description of the trams and to report on the experience over two years of use and the follow…
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…
18 January 2009 | By Joe Meagher, Chief Executive Officer, Dublin Bus
Listening to the daily news unfolding of the impact of the economic downturn, it is becoming apparent that no one is immune to the difficulties arising from the current climate and like all cities, the future in Dublin looks challenging for businesses...
18 January 2009 | By Mike Eastham, General Manager, ITSO Limited and John Verity, Head of Compliance, ITSO Limited and EU-IFM Project Co-ordinator
Smartcards provide a significant number of benefits both to the card holder and for the background processes involved. Fraud, in particular, is a threat that is significantly reduced as smartcards are almost impossible to copy, whilst cards that are lost or stolen can easily be identified and removed permanently from…
18 January 2009 | By Will Franken RE CISA, Risk Manager, RET
In recent years, the legal structure for Dutch public transport companies has been changed drastically, transforming municipal services into private companies. Triggered by a Dutch government ruling that restricts public transport tenders to independent legal entities, RET decided to privatise as of 1 January 2007 (i.e. one public shareholder, non-transferable…
18 January 2009 | By Ken Mackay, Director of Rail and Infrastructure, Nexus
Tyne and Wear Metro owner, Nexus, is to invest £300 million modernising the 30-year-old system, which will include the market-testing of trains and station services. In an interview for Intelligent Transport, Ken Mackay, Director of Rail and Infrastructure for Nexus, explains how the investment programme will provide a step change…
11 November 2008 | By Max Friedli, Director, Federal Office of Transport, Switzerland
Switzerland lies in the centre of Europe, with the railway corridor of Rotterdam-Genua running across the Swiss territory. Switzerland is linked with the European high-speed railway network and promotes the implementation of further lines. On the European market, Swiss industrial companies compete successfully with big companies in order to get…
11 November 2008 | By Urs Hanselmann, CEO, Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB)
The Basel tramway network is a result of a merge between the city network in 1895 and the later integration of suburban metre gauge lines. A significant event was the integration of the important railway line from Leimental in 1986, together with its conversion from railway to tramway in its…
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…
11 November 2008 | By Martin Baltes, Managing Director, Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe und Stubaitalbahn GmbH (IVB)
The Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe transport company bases its philosophy on innovation, sustainability and service. 27 March 2008 represented a milestone in the history of the Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe und Stubaitalbahn GmbH (IVB) tram system and public transport in greater Innsbruck in general, with the first of a total of 32 Flexity Outlook…
11 November 2008 | By Rob Hicklin, Finance Director, Nottingham City Transport
Keeping up with Nottingham’s public transport requirements has needed a few gear changes. Nottingham City Transport (NCT) is the primary public transport operator in the historic East Midlands City. Winner of UK Bus Operator of the Year at the Bus Industry Awards in 2004, NCT employs 1,130 people in Nottingham,…
11 November 2008 | By Eva Molnar, Director of Transport Division and Constantinos Alexopoulos, Regional Advisor of Transport Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Transport systems play a vital role in supporting socio-economic activities all over the world, and especially, enhancing the activity and attractiveness of urban areas requires a drastic improvement in transport systems in order to provide users with better services, high reliability, high frequency and low emissions. Many eastern European and…
