The year so far: A 2025 coach industry update from UKCOA
It does not seem that long ago that we entered 2025, yet we are already past winter and the year…
Finding a gap in the market: Two ideas for industry suppliers
Everyone wants to find a gap in the market. They are often hard to identify, but they do exist to…
UK Bus Manufacturing Panel – a great opportunity for the sector
Alison Edwards, CPT Director of Policy and External Relations, comments on the importance of collaboration as the UK Bus Manufacturing…
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…
AI ‘will drive industry efficiency’, Big Coach Conversation hears
Use of artificial intelligence (AI) will drive efficiencies in the coach industry, delegates at The Big Coach Conversation on 27…
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…
Fines based on profits: The cost of operating correctly?
I write having recently encountered a report wherein a company had been fined following a diesel spillage, and a lack…
