New tools to meet new challenges

There’s an emerging set of capabilities in both the technological and managerial fields that can significantly enhance the passenger transport offer and help seize new opportunities

New Transit makes a point of talking as much about service delivery and marketing issues, and the systems and technologies that can enhance them, as the design and capability of passenger transport vehicles themselves. But the development of the different modal options is an important part of the changing passenger transport equation. In this issue we look in depth at the way distinctions between the different types of transport vehicles- train, tram, bus and coach etc - is becoming blurred,...