Hints and tips:
...Uber plans to add long-distance travel bookings to its UK app this year, including intercity trains, coaches and flights, as chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi reboots the “super app” strategy he first outlined...
...The UK group is yet to sell its struggling US Greyhound intercity coach division....
...First Student and First Transit together operate tens of thousands of buses and vehicles in North America and made up more than 60 per cent of the group’s operating profit in 2020....
...Along with school bus division First Student, municipal transport business First Transit is also included in the EQT deal....
...Airlines and mass transit The Cares Act gave airlines $50bn in funds in exchange for the companies keeping workers employed throughout the summer....
...Often just one in three trains was running on suburban and intercity lines....
...The proof of concept is vital for testing the techniques, economics and public acceptance of a new kind of underground transit system....
...After winning an order in 2010 for 30 train cars for an intercity railway there, the company set up a maintenance centre in Kuala Lumpur the following year....
...And yet there is no shortage of (mostly) foreign suitors to run two key franchises: the UK’s intercity West Coast route and Southeastern, a commuter line....
...“Our priority now is mass transit, not the TGV. More than 90 per cent of our customers go via mass transit, and there has not been enough investment,” he says....
...Passenger numbers on FirstGroup’s Greyhound US intercity coaches dropped in the three months to the end of last year as falling fuel prices encouraged people to drive themselves....
...A vivid example of how to make the most of Europe’s landscape is BlaBlaCar, a Paris-based service that lets you hitch an intercity ride with people who are already taking a car....
...off its US school bus and transit businesses....
...But First Transit, its US contract bus business, was not as affected by the weather and showed improvement, with dollar revenue growth up 7 per cent....
...The hedge fund, which owns 3.1 per cent of FirstGroup, last month called for the group to sell its Greyhound intercity coach service and spin off its US student and transit businesses to focus on strengthening...
...Sandell Asset Management set out details of its call for FirstGroup to sell its Greyhound US intercity coach business and spin off US school bus and transit in order to focus on strengthening the UK bus...
...Although small in scale, the pilot was funded by the World Bank in the hope that its technology could be used in other Indian cities, potentially bringing a modicum of order to transit systems creaking under...
...Meanwhile, alternatives – upgrading the east and west coast mainlines, major regional rail enhancements and mass transit projects in regions and provincial cities – were not actively considered....
...The state government, meanwhile, is seeking to rebuild São Paulo’s once extensive intercity rail network with R$18.5bn of contracts to be offered, including links to industrial centres such as Campinas,...
...The outcome of the hearing, which is due to start in the High Court on October 17, could result in the government having to nationalise the country’s busiest intercity line if it loses and is forced to run...
...It is focused on intercity coach opportunities in the US, too, investing in expansion of Megabus there....
...It has helped spark a resurgence in intercity coach travel as people switch from the car to a greener and better value form of transport.”...
...The operator of UK rail franchises and buses, and coaches and other transit services in the US, said net cash would reach just £100m-£115m for the year to March 31, compared with previous predictions of...
...Airports have been modernised, roads built and, next June, supporters will be using state-of-the-art rapid transit bus systems to travel to their games....
...Fans will need to make intercity journeys, sometimes to relatively small towns where overnight accommodation will be at even more of a premium....
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