Urban transport

Every day 45–50 thousand Muscovites use new ecological mode of transportation.

Kiev subway is developing slowly “due to intervention of Moscow,” Ukraine’s President is convinced

In Sydney, 38 new double-decker buses have recently started operating on the MAN A95 low-floor chassis. In so doing, MAN Truck & Bus has successfully entered the double-decker city bus segment in Australia.

Holding "Bakulin Motors Group" on December 21st opened a new bus plant "Volgabas-Vladimir" in the Vladimir region. The volume of investments in the project at the first stage was 3.5 billion rubles.

Alstom is to supply 6 additional Citadis trams and 22 ground-based static charging zones (SRS) to the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropole for a total amount of 27 million euros as part of the contract signed in October 2015.

Toyota announces the launch of the "Sora," a Toyota fuel cell bus concept. Toyota plans to launch sales of a commercial model based on the concept vehicle in 2018 and expects to introduce over 100 Sora, mainly within the Tokyo metropolitan area, ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

To meet the needs of the growing city and urban area, a modern tramline system has been designed for Tampere. Fostering sustainable transport projects, the EIB has provided a EUR 150m loan to the City of Tamperе.

During the summer, three dozen of buses "NEFAZ", working on the compressed natural gas, were delivered to various regions of Russia, informed the press service of KAMAZ.

Neftekamsk plant presented a novelty - an apron bus, created on the basis of a serial 12-meter city low-floor bus NEFAZ-5299-40-52.

When the NEOPLAN Skyliner was introduced in 1967, it immediately gained countless fans as the world’s first double-decker coach.

Network Rail will begin a project to extend platforms at Stevenage station, as part of the Railway Upgrade Plan.

Alstom is to supply 10 additional Citadis trams to the Strasbourg transport company CTS (Compagnie des Transports Strasbourgeois)  for an amount of 28 million euros as part of a framework agreement signed in November 2014.

It is the duty of the authorities to find out who is responsible under criminal law for the malpractices and irregularities surrounding the metro line 4 project...

The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) uncovered losses in the magnitude of some HUF 167 billion in its report on the metro 4 project, and the European Commission may impose a fine of HUF 76.6 billion on Hungary, the Minister of State at the Prime Minister’s Office said at a press conference.

A new exit which provides direct access from platforms to the city centre has opened at Birmingham New Street station.