News from the Cities
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
STIB now on Google Transit
Since last February 22, Google Transit displays the timetables and routes of the STIB (public transport) network in Brussels. Google Transit is the world wide known browser of Google Maps that so far gave information and travel planner when driving a car or walking. Now in Brussels, it also gives the information for using public
Farewell to the ‘strippenkaart’ in Amsterdam City Region Stadsregio
The minister of Transport and Traffic accepted to put an end to the validity of the paper ticket system for paying in bus, tram and metro in the Amsterdam region transport network, the well-known “strippenkaart”. After a dual phase of over a year all travellers will have to have either a personalised or an anonymous
T ZEN concept project… more than a bus
Bus remains the favourite mode of transport in dense urban areas, according to EMTA Barometer [[EMTA Barometer is a benchmark of transport networks performances across EMTA members for more www.emta.com section Publication]]. These past ten years however, have seen tramways back into cities. They gained increasing popularity thanks to their elegant design, silent power energy
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