Bus
Resources
Policy Futures - Seamless public transport
Air Quality in the City Regions: A Transport Toolkit
Aimed at city region authorities, this toolkit provides an accessible overview of the issues and options for tackling air pollution associated with transport.
Making the connections: The cross-sector benefits of supporting bus services
The bus is key to achieving 46 policy goals of 12 of the 24 Departments across Whitehall including the Department for Work and Pensions, HM Treasury, Department of Health, Department for Education and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. This report shows how, despite these cross sector benefits, all the main forms of funding for bus services are under severe pressure and sets out how bus funding can be reformed.
Bus priority works for business, shops, communities and growth
This brochure and website sets out how well planned bus priority schemes can transform roads and high streets; make walking and cycling safer; create clearer parking and drop off spaces; and reduce congestion for all road users.
Policy Futures paper - Buses
Bus Punctuality - towards a structure that can deliver
This report explains how the national system for monitoring, improving, and enforcing bus punctuality is supposed to work now, why it doesn't work well, and how it could be reformed.
Senior Traffic Commissioners bus punctuality regime consultation
Implementation of Competition Commission bus registration remedies
Multi operator ticketing comparison
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Schools transport
Options for strengthening bus passenger representation
EU road transport proposals to establish common rules
Strengthening Local Delivery - Modernising the traffic commissioner system
Putting Passengers First - from policy to delivery
Public transport ticketing
Bus policy review
Draft competition law in guideline for public transport ticketing schemes block exemption
Bus services across the UK
Proposal for a regulation on public passenger transport services by road and by rail
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Major new report shows the urban bus is 'exceptional value for the taxpayer'
- £2.5 billion of economic benefits for the city regions -
- Norman Baker welcomes valuable further evidence on bus benefits -
Warning over concessionary travel 'timebomb'
Funding for concessionary travel could lead to 75% cut in spending on other transport services in ten years’ time
pteg responds to DfT bus subsidy plans
David Brown, who leads on bus issues for pteg, said:
Urban transport authorities welcome MPs’ bus report
Responding to today’s House of Commons Transport Select Committee report on competition in the local bus market, David Brown, who leads for pteg on bus issues, said:
Breakthrough on devolution of bus funding
PTE bus powers reaffirmed
England's big city transport authorities today welcomed Norman Baker's decision to begin a process of devolving bus subsidies to local transport authorities.
David Brown, who leads on bus issues for pteg, said:
Young people meet with Minister on how to make buses better
Seven young campaigners aged 16 to 19 years old from the British Youth Council (BYC) and National Children’s Bureau (NCB) met with Norman Baker MP, Minister for Transport, in Westminster yesterday (Tuesday 6th March) to discuss how bus services could be improved for young people.
Transport Authorities welcome bus passenger priorities research
pteg today welcomed the release of new Passenger Focus research which shows what bus passengers like, and don’t like about their bus journeys, in a bid to get the best deal for people on the ground.