News from the Cities
iFahrinfo – the new VBB App for your iPhone app
The official time table iPhone app for Berlin and Brandenburg shows all travel connection for train, bus, tram and ferry – and is for free. All time tables of more than 1.000 lines covering more than 13.000 stations of the 30.0000 square kilometer VBB-area are now fitting in the passenger´s pocket. The time table will
New hybrid fuel cell buses for GVB Amsterdam
Public transport company GVB, operator of urban transport in the city region of Amsterdam, will start with 2 hybrid fuel-cell buses in their daily operations in the Spring of 2011. The main features of the buses, built by the Dutch company Advanced Public Transport Systems (part of the VDL Group) are: Lightweight composite body, with
Proposal to raise child bus fares for the first time in eight years
Councillors at next week’s South Yorkshire Integrated Transport Authority (SYITA) are due to vote on a recommendation to increase child concessionary bus fares in the county for the first time in eight years. A report to the meeting on Thursday 3 February recommends the fare should rise from 40p to 50p from 1st April this
Transfer of the Renfe-Rodalies local railway service to the Catalan Government
Contractual framework On January 1st this year, the local railway service operated by Renfe Rodalies was transferred from the Spanish Central Government to the Government of Catalonia. 197 trains and around 900 workers provide the service. This is the first time that a regional government in Spain has taken over functions that have been, until
London set to become a cyclists’ paradise
London’s cycling revolution has begun. This summer marks the start of the two major schemes introduced by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Transport for London (TfL), putting cycling at the heart of transport in the Capital. Thousands of bikes will be available for hire in central London from end of July when Barclays
Bus network overhaul proposed for South Yorkshire
David Brown, Director General explains in the following lines why SYPTE engages with the public on its Vision for Bus Services. “More than 80 per cent of South Yorkshire’s public transport journeys are by bus, or to put it another way, one in six of all journeys into town are made in this way. That
Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid CRTM winner of the Award for Outstanding Innovation in the Public Transport for the Madrid Interchange Plan.
The award was granted by the International Transport Forum (ITF) and the International Association for Public Transport (UITP) at the International Transport Forum in Leipzig 27 May 2010 in the presence of the Ministers of Transport and high-level representatives of industry and research. The objective of the ITF 2010 Award was to acknowledge innovative public
TfL launches the Interchange Best Practice Guidelines
Transport for London (TfL) has launched the new best practice guidelines which aim to improve the quality of multi-modal transport interchange in London. The TfL Interchange Best Practice Guidelines are a new and improved version of the organisation’s 2001 guide to supporting the better design and management transport hubs, which requires close collaboration between partners
Maritime service in CADIZ BAY
Maritime service was Cádiz Bay Transport Consortium major goal for 2006. At that time, the project demanded two ferries and three maritime terminals. However, the success of this new transport mode made a third ferry necessary and in February 2007, one additional vessel started to sail. Now a fourth ferry has been constructed directly under
VBB Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg leader in cross-border travel information
The ten years old international travel planner EU-Spirit coordinated by VBB Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg was honoured by the EU project LINK with the LINK Award in Brussels 15 April 2010. The award acknowledges the excellent performance in the field of intermodal public transport travel information. The EU-Spirit network offers cross-border timetable information on the Internet to
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