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Mayor puts ‘lean, green and ravishing machine’ through its paces

The Mayor of London revealed a prototype of the New Bus for London that is now being submitted to a rigorous testing regime at one of the UK’s top vehicle development centres. If tests go well then the new bus, with its hop on and hop off platform, remains on schedule to be on the streets of central London by early next year...

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More transport & urban transit news:

		6,000 Arcontia contactless smart card readers to be used in Nautiz eTicket PRO PDAs for Dutch Railways ARCONTIA has announced that their embedded contactless smart card reader is to be used by Dutch Railways...

		Household rubbish and animal waste to power Stagecoach buses Stagecoach has launched a fleet of greener buses powered by household rubbish and animal waste...

		Bombardier signs 10-year contract with Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport for maintenance services Bombardier Transportation announced that it has signed a contract with Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport...

		Five new hybrid buses from Vossloh Kiepe and Carosserie Hess handed over to Leipzig Public Transport Designed to be silent and more importantly to emit low amounts of emissions...

		From Pantograph to Wheel Helsinki City Transport (HKL) has placed an order with the Finnish vehicle manufacturer Transtech Ltd. for the delivery of 40 new trams...

		First Solaris Tramino for Poznań delivered Solaris has delivered the first volume-production Tramino low-floor tram. Poznań City Transport will receive 45 five-section articulated vehicles with conventional wheel-set bogies...

		Stagecoach fits greener engines to prolong vehicle life Stagecoach is to fit new, greener engines in some of its mid-life buses to reduce emissions and lower the company’s carbon footprint...

		Arriva announced winner of Transport Achievement Award Arriva has been announced as winner of the 2011 Transport Achievement Award by the International Transport Forum (ITF)...

		Contract awarded to complete London Overground’s orbital railway TfL has awarded a contract to Birse Metro to build the final part of the London Overground rail network that, when complete at the end of 2012, will orbit the capital...

Conferences, events & exhibitions:

Urban Transport 2011
6 - 8 June 2011, Pisa, Italy

8th European ITS Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems
6 - 9 June 2011, Lyon, France

suissetraffic 2011
6 – 9 September 2011, Bern, Switzerland

Rail & Public Transport Safety & Security 2011
12 - 13 October 2011, London, United Kingdom
Remain aware of cutting edge safety & security advances, learn how to elevate security to the board room and examine specific safety issues and how best to address them.

Busworld Kortrijk 2011
21 – 26 October 2011, Kortrijk, Belgium

Scandinavian Urban Transport 2011
30 November – 1 December 2011, Stockholm, Sweden
Join the key stakeholders from across the major cities in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland to discuss and share opinions as to the future development plans for the major cities.

European Transport Conference 2011

Now in it’s 39th year, the European Transport Conference gives delegates an opportunity to find out the latest ideas and emerging thinking across a range of topics including European Transport Policy and Research, Sustainable Transport, Applied modelling techniques, Traffic management and road safety, rail and local public transport. Key themes for this year’s conference include:-

The economic situation facing Europe and the rest of the World - how can minimal cost-solutions be found to deliver more capacity while retaining quality?
What do cuts in public expenditure really mean in the medium and long-term?
Are Public/Private Partnerships the answer to delivering infrastructure?
Is the answer to reducing congestion to be found in technology or regulatory solutions?
Does High Speed Rail provide environmental and practical solutions to efficient long-distance travel?

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