Game-changing developments are ready to roll
Peter Stonham
There is a tendency for important new technologies to find initial adoption slowly, and then witness a relative explosion of general application. There are several understandable reasons for this: scepticism about their value and significance; innate conservatism in the industries they will affect (coupled with some institutional resistance); and unattractive early economics, which make them seem expensive until the real benefits are... continue
London set to bite bullet on driverless tubes but in Paris they run now
Souter or Stagecoach: Will European coach liberalisation mean a choice?
Routemaster revival project is just a British issue...
Europeans test their bus for a common future
Transport operators consider their role in consolidation of social services and paratransit
Would buying Go Ahead be a good choice to gain entry to UK market?
SNCF faces first competition as new teeth put in rail liberalisation
Grand Central purchase gives Deutsche Bahn key strategic benefits
Veolia sale offers intriguing possibilities for further positioning in European transport market
Yield pricing: the art of managing your market
Mark Cartwright
Readers of my previous columns in New Transit magazine will be aware that I have been developing a discussion about the different business models... continue
Countdown to the future: real time revolution opens up our knowledge
Peter Warman
Technological visions and applications for passenger transport are being offered with increasing confidence, and the evidence from the Travel 2020... continue
Can Rail benefit from the ‘Localism’ agenda?
Paul Salveson
The concept of ‘localism’ is one that’s set to have an increasing impact on the way transport is planned and... continue
What am I waiting for? We can tell you lots if you’d like
Peter Stoner
It is always good to be challenged by practice elsewhere, and theTravel2020 conference this year did this very effectively, not least with the talk... continue
Paris Metro sets the pace
Sudhakaran Jampala
With 14 lines, 300 stations, 213 kilometres of tracks and about 1.4 billion passengers per year, the Métro de Paris ranks among the densest... continue
‘Tram-Train’ idea can work, but let’s put it in its place
Bob Tebb
The concept of the ‘tram-train’ seems to be very much the ‘flavour of the decade’ in rail transit circles. No doubt this is... continue
