National Coach Week: Societal and political majors both in play
National Coach Week 2025 opens on 12 May. With it will come an opportunity to publicly celebrate and promote the…
Third-party maintenance scrutiny – and Reform silver lining for bus?
Launch of the multi-stakeholder Maintenance Provision Rating Scheme (MPRS), primarily (but not entirely) for third-party contractors after a pilot that…
Bus Services Bill driver training powers: No silo approach needed
The Bus Services (No. 2) Bill – currently making progress – includes powers to mandate training of bus drivers in…
Coach accessibility worries back to the fore with PSVAR survey
The long-held undercurrent of concern around what the review of PSVAR could mean for accessibility in some parts of the…
The importance of looking into the industry from the outside
Most within coach and bus will likely see the industry’s public perception as being one that is anchored by well-presented…
routeone Awards: A constant in the coach and bus calendar
Nominations for the 2025 routeone Awards have been plentiful, with like-for-like totals thus far above the same point in 2024.…
AI in coach and bus: Will it ever replace a skilled human hand?
Use of artificial intelligence (AI) is ever more established in the coach and bus industry, particularly among larger operators and…
Coach and bus is front and centre of solving the NEET conundrum
Among reforms to social security is work to push more young people into employment, education or training. The claim of…
Come summer, how will the coach sector move forward on net zero?
As an industry we are by now well accustomed to the language of decarbonisation. Among the policy signals and good…
Is holy grail of longer-term bus funding in England coming at last?
Bus services in England may well gain a three-year funding settlement out of the spending review, Local Transport Minister Simon…
