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• UITP Summit puts Hamburg on show

  10-07-2025 16:17 via passengertransport.co.uk
   
  Germany’s second largest city is a showcase for innovation in transport policy, with ambitious targets to grow public transport
   Hamburg has an extensive U-Bahn network of four lines with 93 station
   The UITP Summit was held in Hamburg, Germany in mid-June 2025. Hamburg held the very first UITP Summit in 1891. This year’s congress had over 10 000 attendees from over 100 countries. The now annual event is a mix of conference sessions as well as industry exhibitions f
  
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• Social media – it’s all or nothing

  10-07-2025 16:17 via passengertransport.co.uk
   
  If you put the right level of resource behind social media, it can be game-changing, but if you get it wrong it’s best not to bother
   As part of my role, I do social media training for transport companies and detailed reviews of their approach and strategy
   Public transport is in the entertainment industry, yes, it really is, and I say this not because I head up sales and marketing for Great Scenic Journeys, which was set up to promote and improve the experience on leisur
  
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• NAO calls for DfT lead on bus improvements

  10-07-2025 16:17 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Despite significant bus investment in recent years, a new report by the National Audit Office calls for better strategy and targeted funding
   Report noted that bus franchising is complex and costly
   The Department for Transport must deliver clearer strategic direction and cohesive funding if local transport authorities in England are to reverse the long-term decline in bus services. That is the key message contained in a new report from the National Audit Office (NAO).
  The report, Loca
  
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• French ambition contrasts with UK

  10-07-2025 16:17 via passengertransport.co.uk
   
  In the 1980s, France’s TGV high speed train revolution left the UK well behind. Is the same now happening on local transport?
   Orléans is an example of what a public transport system can do in a small city Paris in the springtime but today we have given the conventional attractions of the ‘City of Light’ a miss in favour of making our way through an emerging new residential area to one of the sites for the extension of the Paris Metro. Why? Because this
  
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• Free buses in return for c-charge in Oxford?

  10-07-2025 16:17 via passengertransport.co.uk
  Key transport organisations across the city have united in support of Oxfordshire County Council’s proposed £5 daily congestion charge £5 daily congestion charge
   Broad coalition of organisations are backing the proposal
   Making Oxford’s park and ride buses free to use could become a reality if plans for a temporary congestion charge in the city centre go ahead, according to bus bosses backing the proposals.
  The idea was floated by Luke Marion, managing director
  
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• Does more choice mean cheaper fares?

  10-07-2025 16:17 via passengertransport.co.uk
   
  The evidence suggests that open access competition has resulted in cheaper fares and grown the overall market for rail travel, says Andy Comfort
   Hull Trains will celebrate its 25th birthday later this year
   At 0614 on the morning of Sunday May 25, the first train to be nationalised by the Labour government left London Waterloo for Shepperton, attracting national headlines. Labour is promising to bring two more train operators (c2c, which runs trains from London to Southend, an
  
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