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Public transit leaders know that zero-emission buses are critical to the future of transit. In fact, many regions around the world are setting goals to convert entire fleets to zero emission operation. Electric buses are a well-proven solution. The challenge now is how to grow transit fleets from 10...

Take a standard diesel bus, remove the internal combustion engine and replace it with electric axle (by ZF) and battery pack. Here we are: a new (more or less…) electric bus is ready for the road. With the awareness that this is a compromise solution, useful during a transition period that may...

65,000 employees, 16 countries, a dozen modes of transport operated including bike and car sharing. Keolis is one of the world’s leading public transport groups. Although it prefers to define itself a ‘shared mobility’ operator. In this talk with Sustainable Bus, Keolis’ Inte...

A follow-up and a debut. 20 zero emission buses for Madrid and 13 for Vitoria-Gasteiz. Irizar e-mobility secures two orders in the domestic market. What is more, the supply for the capital city will bring to 35 the number of Irizar electric buses in operation for EMT. In the case of Vitoria-Gasteiz,...

Following the success of our sell-out event in 2017. UITP and Busworld have joined forces once again to bring you an unmissable event.

A call for tender for 594 electric buses. Chinese manufacturers are on the front line. The maxi order is up for grabs in Colombian capitol city Bogotà, where the city government plans to introduce a large batch of electric buses into the urban public transport system, hitherto monopolised by diesel ...

Arriva Netherlands is scaling up on electric bus deployment. Limburg’s province, in South Netherlands, set an ambitious goal: by 2026 the whole public transport network must be fully electric. The delivery of 55 electric regional buses by VDL Bus & Coach is part of the itinerary that will ...

by Stefano Alfano Yesterday afternoon the first new generation trolleybus for ATM fleet landed in Milan, directly from Poland. Produced by Solaris Bus & Coach, with electric equipment by Kiepe Electric, the new articulated Trollino is the first of 80 vehicles (with possible option for further de...

5G technology can be used to control autonomous vehicles remotely. How? It was shown by Keolis and Ericsson during UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2019 in Stockholm. The public transport company is collaborating with Ericsson to use 5G technology to remotely control and supervise autonomous vehi...

UITP Global Public Transport Summit 2019 sees the ‘consecration’ of battery electric buses and relaunches hydrogen buses (at least in the world of product novelties). Solaris presented its Urbino 12 hydrogen, that promises an autonomy of 350 kilometers. This model is not just a concept: ...