Quality Bus is the premier event for those responsible to designing, planning, supplying and operating quality bus routes and networks.

Back in person for the first time in two years, this gathering will respond to new opportunities created by wide-reaching changes in bus strategy, policy, funding and innovation ….

This event will bring together all of these players to showcase how solutions are being delivered across key areas:

• Reducing operator costs

• Decarbonisation of vehicles

• Optimising vehicle usage and routing

• Funding frameworks and economic, operational and business models

• Rural / peri-urban services and DRT

• Understanding bus usage and networks: models and data

• Improving the passenger experience: information, pricing, convenience, ticketing, vehicles and infrastructure

• Bus priority schemes / urban traffic management

• Bus and passenger infrastructure

• Partnership working

The full programme can be viewed by visiting the dedicated Quality Bus website: https://www.landorlinks.uk/qualitybus

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Why attend?

Buses in particular will play a central role in supporting key transport decarbonisation challenges, and cost-effective and appealing services will help convert more people to public transport – especially in the light of the DfT revealing that the committed £3 billion bus funding has now been scaled back to £1.4 billion.

One bus is able to replace up to 40 cars on the road. So how do we change travel behaviours and get more people to choose bus travel? Passengers wish to be in control of their entire journey – from door to bus stop to bus to door – and a range of strategic and operational solutions are revolutionising bus services so that they can respond to these customer needs, as well as reducing operating costs.

Who should attend?

This event will explore the key solutions to the challenges identified by the 2020 National Bus Strategy:

• Supporting decarbonisation: zero emission vehicles, real-time route planning, route optimisation, carbon footprint reporters, passenger counting solutions,

• real-time route planning, route optimisation, carbon footprint reporters and passenger counting solutions

• Funding frameworks and economic / business models

• Rural / peri-urban services and DRT

• Understanding bus usage and networks: models and data

• Improving the passenger experience: pricing, convenience, ticketing, payments, vehicles, infrastructure

• Bus priority schemes / urban traffic management / enforcement

• Bus and passenger infrastructure

• Seamless, integrated travel between modes and operators

• Offering simple, convenient and capped ticketing across modes

• Innovation and digitalisation to change travel behaviours – improving reliability, efficiency and connectivity

• Data intelligence: improving the flow and capacity of public transport systems

• Reducing operator costs while improving the passengers experience

• Journey time planning and bus priority measures

• Integrating demand-responsive schemes into the wider transport network

• BRT and mass transit schemes

• Communications, messaging and branding

• Improved roadside infrastructure