James Dark
Like many other senior transport professionals of his generation, Nick Brown started his working life as a BR management trainee. But the way his... continue

Dean Finch has left First after 10 years with the company to become the new chief executive of Tube Lines. Finch was group chief operating officer... continue

Public transport offers better value for money than usually stated. These are the findings of a focus paper by UITP, the international association of... continue

Robert Jack
First Group has claimed it is unique among UK transport groups in its ability to combat the recession. The triumphant statement came as First... continue

A fall in passenger revenue at its UK rail businesses has not prevented First Group from raising its dividend. More than h... continue

New USA website BusJunction.com compares tickets and amenities like onboard Wi-Fi across 12 premium bus lines. Intercity... continue

According to consultant Arup, the ability to model the carbon dioxide emissions of transport has become much more sophisticated in recent years but... continue

Matthew Juckes has been appointed to lead Braidwood Associates’ new office in New Jersey in the USA. Juckes joins the microsimulation traffic... continue

Once again the fact was reinforced last week at the Bus as Rapid Transit conference in London. Yes 2009 promises to be the year that bus-based rapid... continue

Andrew Garnett
Bus rapid transit can be an effective tool for encouraging modal shift at much lower cost than competing light rail alternatives. That was one of the... continue

there has been much consolidation in the UK passenger transport sector, but not among the ‘Big Five’ plcs that dominate the industry.... continue

A potential takeover bid by Stagecoach is one of the explanations that has been offered for a rapid rise in National Express Group’s depressed... continue

TRANSPORT operator National?Express Group recorded increased operating profits during the year to December 31 2008, according to its annual report.... continue

Stagecoach chief executive Brian Souter has said that his business is already detecting changes in the way passengers purchased tickets as a result... continue

James Dark
First Group has announced 3,500 job cuts to compensate for the economic slowdown. Half will come at its North American bus and coach operations,... continue

Delegates at a conference in London next month will hear how bus rapid transit is transforming cities and communities... continue

All 25,000 of First Group’s front line UK bus staff are to receive a half day of training in customer care. Leon Daniels, customer service and... continue

George Muir
The “Our People” section of the CSR reports could have been the dullest of all: vocational training, driver retention, ethnic diversity... continue

Consultant Steer Davies Gleave has acquired the former transport planning practice of US consultancy Charles River Associates based in Boston,... continue

Speakers from around the world will be attending the fifth annual Transit-presented Bus as Rapid Transit conference in London on April 23. The event... continue