New rail services can give Switzerland its first high-speed direct trains to the UK. Polling in Switzerland Total sample size was 1,048 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 11th–24th September 2026. Nearly half of Swiss people use rail for other international destinations at least once a year. When asked about journey … [continued]
Hyundai Motor partners with Laksana to deliver 11 COUNTY EV buses to GGGI for the first electric bus public transportation pilot project in Bali, Indonesia Field quality assurance program to monitor vehicle quality and driving performance for project success Hyundai Motor aims to expand electrified vehicle business across Indonesia and … [continued]
England outside London carried about 1.85 billion local-bus passenger journeys in 2024/25, compared with roughly 1.98 billion before COVID-19. Passenger journeys had recovered to 93.3% of their 2019/20 level, while bus service mileage had recovered to 86.0%. Put those two figures together and passenger journeys per service mile were about … [continued]
China has reached a stage of vehicle electrification that is easy to miss if the only number being watched is national EV market share. New urban buses are now essentially all electric, and in many cities the procurement question is no longer whether to replace a diesel bus with a … [continued]
PUBLIC transportation company Green SM has entered North America with the official launch of an all-electric taxi service in Los Angeles, California. The move turns the United States into the ninth market for the Vietnamese transport provider. The platform operates entirely on VinFast battery-electric vehicles, putting its operational system directly … [continued]
Bus electrification turns governance choices into long-lived infrastructure choices: routes and operators can change more easily than depots, chargers and grid capacity.
Britain’s bus reforms are usually discussed as a privatization story. Outside London, the 1980s reforms deregulated local bus markets and gave commercial operators far more freedom over routes and timetables. London kept public control of the passenger network while private companies competed to operate specified services. Edinburgh, Dublin and more … [continued]
Glasgow and London both use private bus operators; the important difference is who designs the passenger network they collectively deliver.
Walk around Glasgow as I did this summer and the bus companies are hard to miss. First Glasgow, McGill’s, Stagecoach and other operators have their own brands and vehicles, which can make the city look as though its public transport system has been divided among private companies. Being a bit … [continued]
The EU Passenger Package still falls short of aligning with the EU’s climate targets and is not harmonious enough with the EU’s rail policy agenda. The EU Passenger Package is a big leap forward to passenger rights, and presents vast progress in dragging European rail ticketing out of the stone … [continued]
Across hundreds of procurement records and very different transit markets, battery-electric has become the reference technology for zero-emission bus fleets.
Zero-emission bus procurement has moved beyond the stage where battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell buses should be treated as two parallel technologies waiting for the market to decide between them. Transit agencies have now spent years operating both, rebuilding depots, installing charging and refuelling infrastructure, training technicians and discovering which assumptions … [continued]
Electric School Buses Reduce Pollution, Lower Costs, and Improve Student Wellbeing WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, members of the Alliance for Electric School Buses (AESB) applaud Representatives Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Buddy Carter (GA-1), and Greg Landsman (OH-01) for introducing a bipartisan bill in the House of Representatives to reauthorize the Environmental Protection … [continued]
