If the bus is to play a leading role in the long term future of urban mobility, we need to be scanning the horizon now and sowing seeds of change to ensure that a very different bus world stakes its claim to exist.
We shouldn’t be spending time and energy implementing a retro 1980’s governance model for yesterday’s buses but be focused on designing a new age of the bus looking toward 2030 and beyond.
Below are links to a series of fourteen individual articles on what different aspects of that new bus future could look like and the kind of things we need to be sowing seeds for now if we are to truly ride the wave of future opportunity.
The final document, 'Riding the Bus to Net Zero' is a refined, consolidated version of the whole story. Feel free to share it with anyone with an interest in the future of the planet.
We need to be bold if we are to shine over the next 40 years and do more than invest in a zero emission fleet, tinker with governance and introduce the odd capped fare.