Barcelona’s light rail operation celebrates its 18-year anniversary

On Sunday April 3rd 2022, Transdev’s light rail operation in Barcelona, TRAM, celebrated 18 years since the first route of the tram as we know it today. To celebrate it, TRAM is launching the campaign “We’re turning 18. Many happy...

On-Demand Public Transit to address low ridership and high costs of paratransit

In rural areas and small towns, public transit buses regularly drive around with empty seats. This is costly and bad for the environment and therefore no longer a logical option. At the same time, the costs for paratransit services in...

Sydney ferries and light rail unite to make public transit shine

Transdev’s Ferry and Light Rail teams in Sydney are once again involved in the two-week Mardi Gras festival from 18 February – 6 March 2022 in celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. Embracing this year’s theme ‘United We Shine’, Circular Quay will...

Transdev improves customer comfort of Swedish regional transit

As of today, February 21, 2022 Transdev started operating the regional bus services in the region of Östergötland in the eastern part of the country covereing the cities of Norrköping, Söderköping and Valdemarsvik on behalf of the regional public transit...

Moving around Rabat in Morocco has just gotten a whole lot easier

The Rabat Salé Tramway Company with Transdev’s subsidiary in Morocco recently opened the light rail Line 2 extension that will improve everyone’s freedom to move through the city, in particular the district of Yacoub al Mansour in Rabat and the...

Transdev Australasia is driving new mobility forward

On-demand transportation may have a greater role to play as people start getting back to the workplace and business districts with more people seeking personalized and more convenient mobility options. The proximity to high-frequency transportation has long been seen as...

Number of journeys by Transdev’s light rail in Barcelona up 27.36% compared to 2020

Transdev’s light rail service in Barcelona (TRAM) made 20.4 million journeys in 2021, 27.36% more than in 2020, which was the first year that mobility was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. To be more specific, 20,386,159 journeys were made; 14,026,700...

Transdev Germany will manage ticket sales in Bavaria for rail operator Agilis

Transdev Vertrieb (TDV), the Sales Services subsidiary of Transdev Germany, will take over ticket distribution in the two Bavarian networks Regensburg/Donautal and Regionalverkehr Oberfranken for the rail operator Agilis for up to 14 years, after the latter recently won the...

Meet Kraish – Transdev UK’s youngest ever bus driver

Meet Kraish Symes – at just 18 years of age, he’s become the youngest ever qualified bus driver to take the wheel for Transdev in Yorkshire, UK. Kraish has left behind his day job behind the till for a new...