Are smart cities S.M.A.R.T?
For Intelligent Transport, Mark Cartwright, Managing Director of RTIG, discusses the open-ended goals of smart cities and whether they are truly S.M.A.R.T…
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Are smart cities safe?
With the amount of large, worldwide corporations being hit by cyber crime, Intelligent Transport’s regular blogger, Graham Ellis, questions whether smart cities will actually ever happen, and if they do, will they be safe?
Intelligent Transport at the UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2017
With three days of the best exhibitors, speakers and new innovations in the world of public transport, Intelligent Transport wasn't going to miss 2017's UITP Global Public Transport Summit...
Investing in change and laying foundations for future
Blackpool Transport operate a network of high frequency buses and trams with 140 buses, 16 modern light-rail trams and a fleet of Heritage trams. In this article, Jane Cole, Managing Director of Blackpool Transport, provides details of the operator’s fleet regeneration programme plus improvements in other areas such as driver…
Ticketing & Payments: The challenge and the prize
Dr Steve Cassidy, Managing Director of Viaqqio (part of the ESP Group) discusses how efficient and effective ticketing and payment technology can contribute to easing congestion in busy cities by giving travellers more options to use public transportation over private car use.
Public sector automation: who is driving the transport revolution?
Connected and autonomous vehicle technology is set to take another leap forward in the UK, following a series of recent government funding announcements. The experts at TRL, the global centre for innovation in transport and mobility, are involved in many project consortia. In this article for Intelligent Transport, TRL Chief…
Revolutionising passenger experience with Mobility-as-a-Service
Sampo Hietanen, CEO and founder of MaaS Global talks to Intelligent Transport about Mobility-as-a-Service; what it can currently do to enhance passenger experience, including discussing the new Whim service, and what we can expect from MaaS in the future.
Passenger experience: making journey time count
23 May 2017 | By Roger Matthews, Managing Director, GoMedia
GoMedia’s Managing Director, Roger Matthews, talks to us about the importance of reducing perceived journey times as a means of improving passenger experience for transport operating companies.
How might the future of British transport change post-election?
For your interest and convenience, Justin Fox explains for EuroTransport what the three main political parties in the UK are proposing in the forthcoming election with relation to public transport.
Why is the UK lacking in passenger experience?
Intelligent Transport's regular blogger, Graham Ellis compares using public transport in Europe to the UK and asks why the latter seems to be lacking when it comes to passenger experience?
Bus service operators must look to the future
4 May 2017 | By Phil Bulman, Director and Transport Sector Specialist at Vendigital
For Intelligent Transport, Phil Bulman, Director and Transport Sector Specialist at Vendigital discusses what bus service operators must do in light of the government's Air Quality Plan.
Xplore Dundee and the importance of passenger experience
3 May 2017 | By Elsie Turbyne, Managing Director of Xplore Dundee
Elsie Turbyne, Managing Director of Xplore Dundee speaks to Intelligent Transport about the operator's recent impressive Transport Focus survey results and what they are going to do to make passenger experience even better.
Payment technology: The price of progress
For Intelligent Transport, Mark Cartwright, Managing Director of RTIG discusses how the evolution in payment technology has resulted in a ‘co-evolution’ of both transport and finance services.
Evolving to smart mobility and MaaS in the Digital Greenwich testbed
The Royal Borough of Greenwich in London, UK, launched its ‘Smart City’ strategy in October 2015, which sets out the council’s plans to embrace smart city concepts. Underpinned by the use of technology and the ability to collect, transmit, manage and interpret data, the strategy aims to enable both service…
A coordinated collaborative approach to making UK’s cities smart
The convergence of multiple layers of technological innovation in recent years is culminating in a truly revolutionary change to the way we navigate our urban areas. Iain Forbes, Head of the UK Government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) explains why the need for a structured collaborative approach has…
