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22 December 2014 | By Tibor Bolla, CEO, BKV Zrt.
Budapest is a well-liked tourist destination ranking 37th among the 100 most popular worldwide cities; 2.7 million tourists choose to visit each year. And with a city-population rising to 1.7 million in 2013 (2.5 million within the suburbs), Hungary’s capital is quickly growing. BKV Zrt. is the main local public…
22 December 2014 | By John Verity, Chief Advisor for ITSO Limited
Smart ticketing has emerged over the past few months as one of the central considerations when it comes to a number of core transport issues in the UK, just as it is throughout Europe. However, Chief Advisor for ITSO Limited John Verity explains that a wider working partnership for ticketing…
Two years after signing their Memorandum of Understanding, the five founder members of the Smart Ticketing Alliance1 (STA) formally launched the Alliance in Brussels in June 2014 to a wider audience of transport operators and industry players. The transport smartcard operators from 10 countries came together at UITP’s head office…
The Open Standard for Public Transport™ (OSPT) Alliance1 is a global association working to advance transport ticketing from fragmented, national schemes to multi-modal, international and interoperable solutions, through the adoption of its CIPURSE™2 open standard. In this article, Laurent Cremer, Executive Director of the OSPT Alliance, talks about the association’s…
With increasing amounts of people now owning a smartphone, Deputy Chairperson of Kontiki e.V, Anne Grünkorn, highlights the trend of mobile devices being part of the daily lives of people using public transport, plus what m-ticketing and contactless technology is currently available to allow passengers to access new sales channels…
Speed, simplicity, flexibility and interoperability. When STIB – the Brussels Inter-municipal Transport Company – launched its ‘MOBIB’ smart travel card six years ago, it was making a firm decision to focus on the future of travel tickets. Erik Baele and Henri Devreux from the STIB, and both involved in organising…
President of the European Disability Forum (EDF) – Yannis Vardakastanis – says that the three main points which can make a difference concerning the design of public transport vehicles include boarding, space allocation, and information. Yannis takes a further look into these features which can be helpful to improve accessibility…
The £30 million modernisation of the Tyne and Wear Metro’s train fleet has past the half-way point, and eye-catching new features and functional changes are now emerging across the system. Nexus, the public body which owns and manages Metro, commissioned the fleet refurbishment project in 2010 when modernisation funding was…
For more than 120 years, London’s roads have played host to the iconic red bus. From humble beginnings of horse-drawn ‘Shillibeers’, the fleet has now grown to 8,700 buses and account for more than a quarter of all road journeys in the city, with many running through the day and…
In this issue: A Foreword from Martin Russ, General Secretary of ITS Austria; Winter Operations Supplement; A look at the role public transport plays in Vienna, plus a status overview of Zurich’s Hardbrücke tram link project; Real-Time Passenger Information Supplement; Sustainable Mobility Supplement; Plus lots more…
24 October 2014 | By Christer Olsson, Gabriel Haller, Ollipekka Heikkilä
In our latest-free-to-view Winter Operations Supplement, industry experts from Gothenburg and Helsinki cover details of how transport operators prepare their networks and vehicles for continuous operations during the harsh winter months...
In our latest free-to-view Sustainable Mobility Supplement, Gloria Esposito from the LowCVP takes a look at the UK low carbon bus market; Esther Kreutz-Hassinen gives details about the CH4LLENGE project she coordinates; and Industry Consultant Doug Jack takes a look at the different low carbon bus vehicles available...
24 October 2014 | By Martin Russ – General Secretary of ITS Austria
New and innovative mobility solutions enabled by intelligent transport systems (ITS) need foresightful political commitment. The national ITS Austria Platform is all set for strengthening the position of Austria as a key player in ITS development and deployment. To further develop the strong network and exchange between the ministry and…
In our latest free-to-view Real-Time Passenger Information Supplement, representatives from Cardiff Bus, West Berkshire Council and the Strasbourg Transport Company take a look at their new developments and technology updates.
24 October 2014 | By Günter Steinbauer – CEO of Wiener Linien
Vienna – the Austrian capital – is rapidly growing and, for many years in a row, has been rated as the city with the highest quality of life in the world. Vienna’s population has grown used to this headline in recent years. At the beginning of 2014, Vienna had a…
