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Hampton Roads Transit has expanded its OnDemand ridesharing service to Chesapeake and Hampton, while extending the existing program in Newport News. The expansion marks a further deployment of HRT’s app-based microtransit offering across the Hampton Roads region, adding two new service areas and pro...

Xavier Piechaczyk has received parliamentary approval to become the next Chief Executive Officer of RATP. On 28 January, the sustainable development committees of the Assemblée nationale and the Sénat approved President Emmanuel Macron’s nominee in a joint vote, with 58 out of 70 votes cast in favou...

Authored and sponsored by IFEMA FIAA trade fair strengthens its role as a strategic platform to anticipate the future of passenger road transport. Internationalisation, sustainability and digitalisation will shape FIAA’s 2026 agenda, taking place from 22 to 24 September at IFEMA MADRID. The next edi...

The Mobility House North America has unveiled Cascade EV Aggregator, a vehicle-grid integration platform designed to aggregate electric vehicle charging and discharging assets into coordinated energy resources for utilities. Cascade EV Aggregator is presented as a utility-facing platform capable of ...

RWTH Aachen University announces it has successfully completed the first prototype testing phase of the upBUS concept, a vehicle designed to operate both as an electric road bus and as an urban cable car cabin. The milestone was reached within the upBUS research project, which is developing a multim...

Mesa County, in western Colorado, has approved a $100,000 grant agreement to carry out a Zero-Emission Vehicle Transition Study for Grand Valley Transit. The decision, approved by the Mesa County Commissioners on Jan. 20, authorizes a technical study aimed at assessing how the publicly operated Gran...

Helsinki’s public transport authority HSL has commissioned INIT to supply a container-based on-board computer system for its multimodal public transport fleet in Finnish capital region. The Helsinki Regional Transport Authority will deploy a new on-board system supplied by INIT across approxim...

Saint-Nazaire Agglomeration has inaugurated the entry into service of its first articulated electric buses, supplied by Iveco Bus under the HélYce+ electromobility project. On 28 January, the French coastal agglomeration officially marked the start of operations of 25 articulated battery-electric bu...

Electric buses accounted for nearly one quarter of all new bus and coach registrations in the European Union in 2025, according to data released by ACEA. New bus registrations in the EU increased by 7.5% year on year in 2025, reaching around 38,000 units, at a time when van and truck markets recorde...

Austrian operator ÖBB Postbus has placed 63 MAN Lion’s City E buses into regular service across the Austrian federal state of Vorarlberg. The delivery represents the largest single electric bus order for MAN Truck & Bus in Austria. The vehicles, comprising 27 MAN Lion’s City 12 E and 36 articula...