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Welsh transport secretary Ken Skates has announced a new task force to help deliver a new strategy for the future of Holyhead Port.
All of Greater Manchester's bus services have come under local public control following the completion of the combined authority’s phased implementation of a new franchising system.
Campaign for Better Transport has appointed Ben Plowden as its next chief executive officer, taking over from Paul Tuohy, who is stepping down in the spring.
Cuts to bus provision in England led to an estimated 1.1 billion extra miles driven by cars and taxis in 2023 alone, according to new research.
The number of bus and coach services operating on Christmas Day this year is expected to hit a record high of 100,000.
Portsmouth City Council has attributed a resurgence in bus usage over the past year to its Bus Service Improvement Plan, launched in 2022.
The transport secretary has set out her vision for ‘more joined up and locally-led transport across England’ in what her department said will be the first integrated national transport strategy in a quarter of a century.
The transport secretary has appointed Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson to lead a new expert group to ‘look at’ tackling the biggest barriers to air travel for disabled passengers.
The Department for Transport has announced £955m for bus services next financial year, with a shift in allocations towards more rural authorities.
“ Sara Ulrich, a resilience and wargaming expert at PA Consulting, asks why so many are waiting for fresh disruption before they act to build always-on resilience. ”
Tom Cummins and Viraf Avari, customer experience and operating model experts at PA Consulting, ask: How can transport organisations deliver excellent customer experience enabled by their operating model and AI?
West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin is due to announce on Thursday whether the combined authority that she leads will take forward proposals for bus franchising, but bus operators have poured resources into promoting their preferred option.
In the second of an occasional series, Chris Ames recounts a train trip to Austria in the aftermath of September's catastrophic floods.
