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30 April 2009 | By Andy Morris, Managing Director, Stagecoach Supertram
From 1991 to 1995, there was major construction work on the streets of Sheffield to create Britain's state-of-the-art public transport system. This system mirrors the high quality modern tramways found in Europe and the United States, which provide an attractive alternative to the use of the car in city centres…
30 April 2009 | By Simon Reed, iBus Project Director, TfL
The transformation of the London bus network in recent years is a great public transport success story. Over the last decade, bus patronage in London has increased by 53%. Every weekday, over 8,000 buses run on almost 700 routes, carrying 6.4 million passengers and well over 2 billion trips are…
30 April 2009 | By Philip Purdy, Metrolink Director, Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive (GMPTE)
It's a very exciting time to be leading the Metrolink team. Manchester is a world-class city and we're looking forward to providing a tram system that matches that. There is a huge amount of work going on at the moment on Metrolink. In fact, we're investing nearly £700 million on…
30 April 2009 | By Keith Ludeman, Group Chief Executive, Go-Ahead Group plc
The Go-Ahead Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange with its Headquarters based in London. Employing over 27,500 people in the UK and with revenue1 of £2,199 million and operating profit2 of £144.9 million, Go-Ahead is one of the UK's largest public transport operators. Go-Ahead is the busiest…
30 April 2009 | By Ian Morgan, Commercial Director, trent barton
Customers who travel on trent barton routes are to benefit from an investment of £6 million in new buses this year, despite the economic downturn. The 43 new buses will be rolled out on five routes in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The routes, or ‘brands' as they are called by the…
30 April 2009 | By Ramon Malla, Director of Automated Lines, Barcelona Metro
Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) is the main public transport operator for the metropolitan area of Barcelona and an international reference in the urban transport sector. TMB covers the services provided by the companies Ferrocarril Metropolità de Barcelona, SA (FMB – the Barcelona Metropolitan Rail Service), and Transports de Barcelona,…
30 April 2009 | By Ignasi Armengol Villà, Director of Buses, TMB
The protection of the environment is one of the backbones of the strategic policies of TMB. As a public transport company, its activity is essential for the promotion of more sustainable mobility, and a clear alternative to private vehicle transport, which is less efficient and has a greater impact on…
30 April 2009 | By Dr. Walter Casazza, Managing Director, VBK (Verkehrsbetriebe Karlsruhe GmbH)
The city and region of Karlsruhe is known in the world of public transport as the cradle of the tram-train idea, and also, since 2008 as the hosting city of the IT-TRANS – the leading fair for IT-solutions for the public transport market. With this background, it is obvious that…
30 April 2009 | By Stefan Gemperli, Head of Sales, Continental Automotive Switzerland AG
To make local and regional public transport more attractive to a large potential ridership and thus more competitive, passenger information is one of the critical success factors and, therefore, pivotal. While dynamic real-time passenger information at stops has become a widely accepted standard, intermodal in-vehicle dynamic passenger information that includes…
30 March 2009 | By Jack Short, Secretary General of the International Transport Forum
Today, almost three quarters of the world's population resides in cities - and this share is increasing. By 2025, it is estimated that there will be 135 cities worldwide with more than four million people. Cities that provide high quality access and efficient, environmentally and socially sustainable mobility are likely…
30 March 2009 | By Herbert König, Chairman of the Board, MVG and Günter Pedall, Head of Metro, MVG
A high level of objective and subjective safety builds an essential portion of the attractiveness of public transportation. For this reason, the Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG) has established a safety concept with two goals: its passengers should a) be safe and should b) feel safe. Whereas the objective state of safety…
30 March 2009 | By Michael Budig, Managing Director, VGF and Bernd Conrads, Head of Corporate Communications, VGF
Frankfurt is constantly in motion - a metropolis of 667,000 inhabitants, with approximately 588,000 people travelling to their place of work in the city and travelling home again in the evening. Each working day, approximately 305,000 people commute into and out of Frankfurt - thus making it Germany's fifth largest…
30 March 2009 | By Dr. Rainer Müller, Managing Director, VAG
Immediately after the commissioning of the new fully-automatic U3 metro line, VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg and Siemens AG, the general contractor, started to automate the existing Nürnberg U2 metro line (Röthenbach - Nuremberg Airport) in the summer of 2008. As with the automatisation of the new U3 metro line, which started…
30 March 2009 | By René Brun, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport Managing Director
Eight terminals have been built successively over the last 30 years at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, making it one of the most extensive platforms in Europe. CDGVAL is a key part of the development of this vast complex, providing an answer to the need for quick and reliable transport between…
30 March 2009 | By Mogens Buch-Larsen, Chairman, InformNorden and Anders Kåbjörn, Secretary General, InformNorden
The breakthrough of the internet, the mobile phone and the GPS technology during the late 1990s made it possible for the public transport sector to develop new advanced information technology services. In order to coordinate this development in the Nordic countries, the public transport authorities in the four Nordic capitals…
