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17 December 2015 | By Artur Perchel, Manager, Central Eastern Europe at UITP
The urban mobility revival in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries is hard to overlook. Fuelled by EU funds and evolving mobility patterns, the shift towards modern, low-carbon and customer-oriented collective transportation marches throughout the region. And although there is an array of challenges ahead, including dropping ridership levels or…
17 December 2015 | By Thomas Kritzer, Member of the UITP Security Commission
Thomas Kritzer, Member of the UITP Security Commission, discusses how and why cyber security is becoming a prominent issue within the public transport sector, and explores the ways to overcome this threat...
17 December 2015 | By Peter Boulton, Head of Programme Management, TfGM
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is currently making one of the largest investments in Greater Manchester’s bus network for decades. Over 25 miles of the bus network are being either created or improved as part of a £122 million ‘bus priority package’ to improve bus connections on three key corridors…
17 December 2015 | By Cormac Rabbitt, Managing Director, Metro Dublin
Metro Dublin is a new mass rapid transit network to serve Ireland’s capital city and the country. Cormac Rabbitt, Managing Director of the scheme, explains for Intelligent Transport why and how Metro Dublin propose to create and deliver a cost effective transit metro network for Dublin’s future...
8 December 2015 | By Carlos Rodríguez Sánchez & Juan Moreno García-Loygorri
For Intelligent Transport, Metro de Madrid colleagues Carlos Rodríguez Sánchez and Juan Moreno García-Loygorri, take a look at the feasibility of carrying Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) data over a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network. CBTC data is mostly critical, but most of the services carried over mobile networks, like LTE,…
2016 will be a crucial one for smart ticketing in the UK, writes Steve Wakeland, General Manager of ITSO Limited. And it will be for ITSO also, because it is the year we hope to provide ITSO smart ticketing on NFC-enabled android smartphones. We already have two pieces of work…
For more than two decades, Calypso technology has been a front-running initiator in the field of smart ticketing. But what does the future hold? Philippe Vappereau, Chairman of the Calypso Networks Association (CNA) tells us how CNA plans to meet the future expectations of its users.
Barry Dorgan, Head of Ticketing Systems at Ireland’s National Transport Authority, sets out how integrated ticketing has developed and evolved in Ireland and its likely future direction.
3 November 2015 | By Innovate UK
Innovate UK discusses the importance of open data in establishing transport intermodality and its role in meeting the public transport demands of a technologically savvy 24/7 society. Imagine an advanced inter-connected public transport network that connects people quickly and reliably, a network that makes ticketing, routing and access to different…
In this issue: A Foreword from Ueli Stückelberger, Director of the Swiss Association of Public Transport; Real-Time Passenger Information: successful systems in Stuttgart and Poole, plus First Hampshire’s technology roll-out; Switzerland & Austria: developments in Geneva, Lucerne, Winterthur and Vienna; Winter Operations Supplement with features from John Gorman at First…
In our latest free-to-view Real-Time Passenger Information Supplement, systems and technology under the spotlight include those in Stuttgart (Germany) and Poole (UK), plus we cover First Hampshire’s technology roll-out...
John Gorman from First Scotland East and Michael Andersson from Helsingin Bussiliikenne Oy (HelB), discuss that, ultimately, the work never ends when planning and preparing for continuous operations during harsh winter months...
2 November 2015 | By Ueli Stückelberger, Director of the Swiss Association of Public Transport
With the recent nationwide launch of the SwissPass travelcard, Ueli Stückelberger, Director of the Swiss Association of Public Transport, gives comment on how he believes this “evolution” in public transport is the first step towards barrier-free travel...
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…
2 November 2015 | By Emmanuel Fankhauser, Network Development Manager at TPG
Between 2003 and 2013, additions to the local tram network doubled the offer of Geneva’s public transport system. But between 2014 and 2019, the picture will be different. Emmanuel Fankhauser, Network Development Manager at TPG, explains that no major infrastructure projects or developments are planned on the network, but concentration…
