Although positioned to be part of the development of the major Grand Paris Express plans for a driverless express metro system in and around the... continue

A group of fifty leading senior executives and managers form this year’s New Transit UK passenger transport providers Power List. There are... continue

Serco Group, the international services company, has appointed Richard Williams as Managing Director, Transport, as part of its newly formed UK &... continue

National Express has recruited Matthew Beeton from Serco to be the Chief Operating Officer for its Coach business. At Serco, he was Managing Director... continue

 FirstGroup has bolstered its UK Bus management with the appointment of Jeroen Weimar as Chief Operating Officer. Weimar will join on June 11... continue

Plans in the UK government’s rail Command Paper for retailers close to stations, and potentially high street libraries, post offices and... continue

A group of 30 leading senior executives and managers in the UK’s passenger transport businesses form the core people of this year’s New... continue

Fujitsu has signed a collaboration agreement with Höft & Wessel, the IT and engineering group heavily involved in transport ticketing... continue

Paul Salveson
­T­­he ‘rail product’ is only as strong as its weakest link, and that link is often the station. So it’s good to see... continue

Merseyrail has appointed Maarten Spaargaren (right) as its new managing director. He replaces another Dutch MD at Merseyrail, Bart Schmeink, who is... continue

Paul Salveson
­T­­he concept of ‘localism’ is one that’s set to have an increasing impact on the way transport is planned and... continue

Paul Salveson
­I­­t seems slightly self-indulgent to use this ‘opinion’ column to go into the ins and outs of my local train service in the... continue

Paul Salveson
­I­­t’s easy to under-estimate how unfamiliar many people are with using public transport.  A lot of the population simply... continue

Northern Rail has launched an online ticket sales service that allows customers to buy tickets for any rail journey in the UK. The website is based... continue

Merseyrail’s managing director Bart Schmeink is to join GVB Amsterdam as its new chief executive on 1 December. GVB is the public transport... continue

The first of Blackpool’s long awaited new trams arrived in September. The  Bombardier Flexity2 16-strong fleet will run from a brand new... continue

Paul Steveson
­T­­he writings of Chopra admittedly don’t figure strongly in any university transport planning syllabus. He is a leading writer on... continue

August 12 Transport secretary Philip Hammond has left the door open for a “radical restructuring” of rail services in the North of... continue

The Department for Transport has announced that Northern Rail and First Great Western will receive additional rolling stock in December following the... continue

In March, the merger of French groups Transdev and Veolia brought another new player from Continental Europe onto the UK transport scene.... continue