Passenger Innovation Day 4 breeds new ideas at ODI Leeds

Innovation Day

Twice a year, Passenger invites operator partners from across the UK to a mutual location to discuss the Passenger product. The fourth Passenger Innovation Day took place at ODI Leeds and it presented a great opportunity to chat through our work with open data, server resiliency and more. On November 13th, 2018, Passenger held its […]

Bus Stop Checker – An update on the beta and how the tool works

Bus Stop Checker

Bus Stop Checker launched on 29th October. The tool, which visualises our confidence in the accuracy of NaPTAN data, has motivated some great discussions around this open dataset in the public transport industry. It has also generated some interesting feedback, which we’d like to address in this post. Since its beta launch on 29th October, […]

Passenger creates a tool to rate your bus stop – and it’s awesome

Ever tried to use a journey planner to find your way to the shops, but found yourself being mysteriously routed through Northern France? How about that time you tried to plan a day out with the family, only to be virtually dumped by Google into the middle of the sea? Well now, there’s a solution. […]

Transdev orders 64 Stadler FLIRT EMUs for newly-awarded S-Bahn contract

Transdev Group has announced an order for 64 Stadler FLIRT electric trains as it wins Germany’s biggest ever private rail contract. Transdev, Germany’s largest private operator of rail and bus services, will begin in December 2021 the operation of the entire 385 km-long regional rail network in Hannover (Lower Saxony, Germany) for 12 and a half […]

Alexander Dennis and Lothian unveil 100-seat monster bus

Alexander Dennis (ADL) and Lothian have unleashed an absolute monster on the world –  their brand new 100-seat Enviro400XLB three-axle double decker. Developed in close collaboration with Volvo and based on their B8L tri-axle chassis, 42 of these high-capacity buses will enter service in Edinburgh from January onwards. They will be built at ADL’s factory in Falkirk. With […]

TfL orders 90 Mellor Tucana II buses for London Dial-a-Ride

Mellor has announced a huge new order from Transport for London for 90 of its Tucana II buses. Set to be deployed at various Dial-a-Ride hub locations around central and suburban London, the Tucana IIs are all being built to an identical specification which meets the access needs of the Dial-a-Ride service. The buses are […]

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