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“SYPTE shares views on the regulatory framework that would best serve good quality public transport”
Updated : août 16, 2011
In the UK there is a growing debate about the regulatory framework about how best to provide good quality public transport. In the past couple of months two eagerly-awaited reports have added to that debate. The...
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Warsaw public transport consistently modernised
Updated : mai 26, 2011
“I am glad to say, that the public transport system in Warsaw is consistently modernised,” says Leszek Ruta, Director of ZTM, the Warsaw Public Transport Authority. A city payment card and internet-purchased tickets...
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London to allow access with bank or credit cards to its entire transport network
Updated : mai 26, 2011
London will lead the world in 2012 when it becomes the first city where passengers are able to access an entire transport network with just a swipe of their contactless bank or credit card. By the end of 2012 card...
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VBB`s Passenger Information Service
Updated : mai 25, 2011
Berlin and Brandenburg passengers are now treated with four new and innovative functions available in VBB’s (the transport authority of the Berlin-Brandenburg area) time table information service, since January 2011....
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iFahrinfo – the new VBB App for your iPhone app
Updated : mai 25, 2011
The official time table iPhone app for Berlin and Brandenburg shows all travel connection for train, bus, tram and ferry – and is for free. All time tables of more than 1.000 lines covering more than 13.000 stations of...
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Sheffield public transport executive enlarges scope and responsibility
Updated : mai 25, 2011
“This is an exciting time for Passenger Transport Executives in the UK, as we evolve to take on new responsibilities to our traditional functions” say David Brown SYPTE Director General. The Transport Act 2008 allowed...
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Montreal : construction of the Lachine maintenance centre
Updated : mai 25, 2011
On February 25, 2011 Senator Larry Smith on behalf of Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, Quebec Transport Minister Sam Hamad, Marquette MNA François Ouimet, and Agence métropolitaine de transport Vice-President of...
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Brussels : a challenging Regional Mobility Plan
Updated : mai 25, 2011
The sustainable mobility plan has been adopted end of 2010. It aims at reducing traffic by 20% in comparison with 2001. To reach this goal, a huge improvement in the capacity of public transport is needed, as well as...
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New hybrid fuel cell buses for GVB Amsterdam
Updated : mai 25, 2011
Public transport company GVB, operator of urban transport in the city region of Amsterdam, will start with 2 hybrid fuel-cell buses in their daily operations in the Spring of 2011. The main features of the buses,...
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Proposal to raise child bus fares for the first time in eight years
Updated : janvier 27, 2011
Councillors at next week’s South Yorkshire Integrated Transport Authority (SYITA) are due to vote on a recommendation to increase child concessionary bus fares in the county for the first time in eight years. A report...
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