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Hamburg has been awarded the bid for hosting UITP Public Transport Summit in 2025 and 2027. In the meanwhile, the sector in on track for June 2023 Global Public Transport Summit to take place in Barcelona. “Hamburg has been chosen as the host city for the 2025 & 2027 editions of the&n...

Tim Dahlmann-Resing elected VDV Vice President (as well as chairman of the TRAM Board of Directors) VDV Executive Committee member Tim Dahlmann-Resing is board member of VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg and long-time chairman of the General Committee for Planning. Tim Dahlmann-Resing succeed...

At the VDV electric bus conference and trade fair ElekBu, the e-bus sound launched by the VDV, which is to be heard uniformly on German roads in future, has been implemented in a new e-bus for the first time today and played out via the AVAS loudspeakers. The winning sound was chosen in May 2022, [&...

Daimler Buses is going to be present at VDV’s industry conference “Elekbu” in Berlin with a Mercedes eCitaro and its digital service offerings from OMNIplus ON. More generally, the Stuttgart-based manufacturer will be presenting comprehensive and sustainable solutions for the electromobility o...

Eager to hear how electric buses will sound in Germany? The VDV has presented an acoustic industry standard in Berlin, following the student competition launched in late 2021 in cooperation with the FOAM Institute Berlin. Winner? Lukas Esser from the Berlin University of the Arts. CLICK BELOW TO HEA...

The figure of 1,700 zero emission buses funded by the German government “has to be seen against the background of currently around 5,000 e-buses applied for and also in view of the planned budget cuts in this area. If nothing changes here, many, especially medium-sized and small transport comp...