Following the end of the European COMPRO project, the French cities of Nantes and Angers decided to jointly purchase several articulated hybrid buses. The cities together drafted common technical...

Company bicycles used by employees to travel to work or during service trips are growing in popularity in Belgium. However, many employers still don’t know how to go about introducing such schemes...

While Barcelona’s network is already one of the cleanest in Europe thanks to its hybrid and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses and the retrofitting of its diesel vehicles with particulate filters...

Do your shopping by bike! Strange idea, or a viable solution for the future? It is, in any case, a solution offered by France's Ecomobilité Agency (EA) for 130 households in the Chambéry area...

With about 3.5 m travellers passing through the railway station in Clermont-Ferrand in central France, it is undoubtedly the city’s most important transport hub. The city decided, however, that...

In June 2012 Kieler Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (KVG), the public transport company in Kiel (Germany) issued an open tender for the purchase of 17 new buses to replace a part of its fleet.

The city of Ghent and Ghent Fire Brigade have been co-operating on innovation procurement contracts for years with the aim of finding innovative solutions to improve efficiency and to reduce the...

The Citizens’ Rail Masterclasses demonstrated how university students can bring fresh, actionable ideas to the rail industry in a creative way. The two-day events were held in Aachen and Heerlen...

The availability of high-quality real-time and properly processed data is essential for an electronic multi-modal transport planner, which can help travellers make better decisions regarding the...

In 2013 Budapest decided to reconsider its entire strategic planning process and develop a new transport development strategy guided by the European Commission’s Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (...