Wednesday 31 August 2011

John Austin speaking at important international conference on Transport & Social Media

John Austin will be speaking at the International Institute of Information Design's 6th Traffic & Transport conference - Traffic, Transport & Social Media - in Vienna next week (8th and 9th September).  John's presentation is about how the public transport industry in the UK and Ireland used Social Media to communicate with customers during last winter's unprecedented bad weather.  The full conference programme is at  http://www.iiid-expertforum.net 

Thursday 25 August 2011

Public Transport: commercial enterprise or social tool?

Ann Frye writes on this theme in the August issue of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport's 'Focus' magazine.  'Even CILT's own survey of members revealed that those who responded did not prioritise socially inclusive services. Until  the cost of transport - including concessionary fares - and the benefits of reduced health and social care costs can be seen as interdependent, we may continue to struggle with these issues', writes Ann.  Read the whole feature article here.  

Wednesday 24 August 2011

Cambridgeshire Guided Busway opens - John Austin was there

The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway - the world's longest - was opened earlier this month.  John Austin was there photographing the first public journey: see his photo album on Flickr.  

And this week his feature article on the future challenges that management faces in ensuring that The Busway continues to meet passenger expectations is publshed in the August issue of New Transit.

Tuesday 23 August 2011

David Crawford writes in Transmart section of July / August issue of ITS International

David Crawford tracks gains for public transport operators from growing mobile phone use, in the latest issue of ITS International.  See http://www.itsinternational.com/