Great Britain (outside London) is unusual among Western European economies in leaving the planning of its bus networks to the private sector, albeit working from a long-established historic basis. It took several years ...

The Bus Services Act 2017 gained Royal Assent on 27 April, shortly before Parliament was dissolved prior to the general election of 8 June. It provides a range of powers, mostly permissive rather than mandatory. The general ...

Since 1 January 2013, the German interurban bus market is deregulated. As a consequence of deregulation, the number of interurban bus passengers has increased from 2.5 million in 2012 to 24 million in 2016. Today there is ...

Since 1996 German local public transport by road has been organised as a hybrid regime which allows for prioritised market-initiated services as well as contracted public services initiated by competent authorities. In ...