On the Sustainable Bus Tour 4th edition: two conferences planned at NME Milan and EUMO in Strasbourg

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After 3 years of being conducted digitally, the Sustainable Bus Tour 2024 will be built around two in-person conference that are set to be held within Next Mobility Exhibition (May) in Milan and the Euro Mobility Expo in Strasbourg (October), two of the main public transport exhibitions in Europe planned for 2024. With a sharp focus on today’s projects and the challenges facing the public transport sector, the Sustainable Bus Tour aims to delve into key issues and future outlooks, facilitating discussions among operators, manufacturers, organizations, institutions, and providers of components and technologies.

The first leg of the tour, scheduled for May 2024 in Milan, within the second edition of Next Mobility Exhibition, will tackle the theme “Balance shifts in public transport: operators and industry in the energy transition era“. This conference will explore topics such as internationalization, evolving business models, and strategic considerations in the face of energy transition.

The second leg of the tour, slated for October 2024, will focus on the journey towards a fully zero-emission city bus market by 2035 (as agreed at the EU level). It’ll be hosted by European Mobility Expo in Strasbourg. This conference will delve into technological advancements, business cases, market uptake, and financing models for zero-emission buses. Title? “On the way to a fully zero emission city bus market in 2035? Technology | business case ! market uptake“.

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🤓 Things we enjoyed reading

• London monitors Paris plan to raise charges on SUVs The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has said he will monitor the effectiveness of Paris’s plan to increase parking charges for sports utility vehicles if it is approved in an upcoming referendum. Keep reading on The Guardian
• Subsidizing Transit Actually Makes It More Efficient A new study has busted the decades-old myth that transit systems get less efficient when they receive more government subsidies — and proved that subsidies, in fact, do the opposite. Keep reading on StreetsBlog USA
• For US aerial trams, the sky’s the limit Aerial cable cars remain rare for U.S. urban transportation, but cities and private groups see them as a novel solution to traffic woes. Keep reading on Smart Cities Dive
• Dubai aims for 25% of transport to be self-driving by 2030 Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority in Dubai has reaffirmed its aim to make a quarter of transport services self-driving by 2030. In the past year, Dubai has introduced self-driving taxis to its fleet... Keep reading on TimeOut Dubai

🗣 Time for a quote

There’s a solid amount of evidence that shows that transportation has a significant impact on the health and well-being of the public. The social determinants of health really make a difference in what kind of housing people have and includes whether there are job opportunities, education opportunities. An additional significant way that transportation matters is, when we look at obesity and diabetes, that those rates have gone up pretty significantly since the 1970s. [That’s] in part related to the fact that we’ve built a society that’s much more of a car-related society"

John Auerbach , senior vice president for federal health at ICF on Smart Cities Dive

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