Interviews

Founded in 1926 by private bus companies to represent their interests in Washington, the American Bus Association today encompasses operators and tourism industries. It provides a privileged observatory to understand trends, state of health and developments not only in the bus business but also in t...

ADASTEC is the company behind the Karsan Autonomous e-Atak, the driverless 8-meter bus by Karsan. They focus on automation in the bus business. We met the CEO Ali Ufuk Peker at Busworld North America in Detroit in February. In this interview he outlines background, strategies and business model of t...

On 15th February we joined the press event organized by FlixBus (but is should be better to say ‘Flix’, from the name of the group that embraces both bus and FlixTrain business) on the occasion of its 10th anniversary.  A few takeaways: in 2022 FlixBus achieved profit...

Headquarters in New York, one hundred employees in Europe divided between the London, Paris and Berlin offices, one CEO Europe (Chris Snyder). Via Transportation is a tech company whose core business is helping to increase public transport efficiency through the use of data and on-demand transport m...

The new management of Tecnobus, an Italian company active in the production of electric minibuses since the early 1990s, has clear goals to make the company ready for the challenges (and the opportunities!) of a growing European e-bus market. We restarted operations between January and September thi...

The next UITP Global Public Transport Summit is quickly approaching. We are just six months away from the kickoff, scheduled for 4th June in Barcelona, Spain. UITP Secretary General Mohamed Mezghani shares with Sustainable Bus state of the art of the preparation for the summit, main topics, expectat...