Euro Bus Expo: a must-attend for transport planners
Better, greener, more connected transport
Euro Bus Expo returns to the NEC, Birmingham on 1-3 November 2022. The premier bus, coach and mini vehicle exhibition is a must attend for local authorities.
The industry showcase will bring together thousands of thought leaders, suppliers, manufacturers, operators, transport planners and strategy influencers. Each has a critical role to play in connecting communities, encouraging bus patronage, improving services, and not least - achieving net zero.
To this end, transport planners are managing more regulations and contract decisions than ever before. All while dwindling government resource and rising inflation rates are increasing focus on investment returns. Visiting Euro Bus Expo can help to alleviate these mounting pressures.
Achieving net zero
Free to attend seminars will inform about the milestones, challenges, and possible solutions to make the vision for carbon free transport a reality. Visitors will hear about the practicalities of implementation, infrastructure requirements, and how others are adapting to similar circumstances. There will be also sessions dedicated to game-changing technologies and industry developments.
Informed investments
With hundreds of suppliers in one place, it’s easy to find and compare all the new emission-reducing products and technologies available. And, to research which of these quickly developing opportunities deliver the best value for money.
The exhibitor line-up includes over 20 vehicle manufacturers that will be showcasing the fleets of the future – including brand-new launches. Several will be demonstrating vehicles in the dedicated Zero Emission Zone. Here, visitors can experience the latest carbon-free battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles first hand. They will also see new features designed to lower the costs of operating and make the passenger experience more desirable.
Behaviour change
To convince people to use greener travel options, services need to be available, accessible, and convenient. Exhibitors will be showcasing an array of products and services to help with these challenges.
Among hundreds of exhibiting brands are suppliers whose technologies can make seamless journeys a reality. From route mapping and traffic flow modelling, through multimodal ticketing and on-demand bus and coach services.
There will be smart passenger information systems that can keep commuters informed about expected arrival times and any delays, and products to increase on-board comfort.
In the miniplus Area, visitors will find mini vehicles fitted with modern accessible aids including step-free design, wheelchair lifts, bespoke seating, and more safety items.
The show will be brimming with developments that can create the new customer experience needed to drive a shift from cars to buses.
Public-private partnerships
To drive this shift, collaboration is necessary between authorities, businesses, supply chain partners, policy makers – and not least, communities. As the entire industry comes together this November, there will be ample opportunity to network. Visitors can meet new contacts, develop relationships, share ideas, learn from others, and forge new partnerships.
An industry challenge
Buses and coaches have vast potential to reduce pollution and congestion, to connect people and support economic success. And they have a central role to play in achieving decarbonisation goals. This is a collective industry challenge. Attend Euro Bus Expo this November and find out how it is being addressed.
Free registration and free coach travel
Free coach travel to the venue is available from 6 locations including Brighton, Cardiff, Colchester, Liverpool, Portsmouth and York. For more information and to register for the free-to-attend trade exhibition, visit www.eurobusxpo.com.
Meet the brand: Air Products Plc
We catch up with Jon Roper from Air Products Plc to find out about their presence at Euro Bus Expo, on stand C22.
Tell us a bit about your company:
Air Products is the world’s largest hydrogen producer, with over 60 years’ experience. We work across all facets of the hydrogen value chain – from production to distribution, storage and dispensing.
We work together with our customers, providing hydrogen solutions to support them on their sustainability journey, and we partner with select industry experts and governments on large-scale solutions.
We’re proud to be a first mover in large scale, clean hydrogen production. We operate the world’s largest hydrogen pipeline system with hands-on operating experience with over 250 hydrogen fuelling station projects in 20 countries. Our technologies are used in over 1.5 million fuelling operations annually.
Tell us about your latest products, services, promotions or launches that visitors can hope to see on your stand:
We are delivering a range of proven technologies and reliable end-to-end solutions: from production to distribution to stations.
Each of our customers will have a different requirement regarding their use of hydrogen. Air Product’s ability to deliver high-quality infrastructure, through equipment and stations, coupled with a dependable supply of hydrogen, means that time savings and cost efficiency are just two of the core benefits to customers of working with us – regardless of their volume of hydrogen needed.
Why is exhibiting at Euro Bus Expo 2022 an unmissable opportunity for you?
The potential long-lasting relationships are crucial to shape our industry future which makes Euro Bus Expo an unmissable opportunity. There is a lot of pressure on transport operators to make any infrastructure investment viable, particularly due to the long lead times.
As a hydrogen infrastructure supplier, we can explain the benefits of converting to hydrogen fuel will make, with decarbonisation goals more achievable. It’s crucial to speak to us early in the process, before any planning permission is sought and before vehicles have been purchased, so they can offer additional strategic thinking about how to decarbonise a fleet or prepare to build a new refuelling station.
Our experts will advise on the best option for the fleet, based on the business’ needs, size of fleet, type of fuel, growth ambitions and the area where the refuelling station will be based.
Meet the brand: CitySwift
We catch up with Alan Farrelly from CitySwift to find out more about their presence at Euro Bus Expo, on stand T80.
Tell us a bit about your company:
Founded by Alan Farrelly and Brian O’Rourke, CitySwift is an Irish big data company powering bus networks across the world. Since its inception in 2016, CitySwift has built the world’s first "Mobility Intelligence as a Service" platform that gives bus network providers the always-on insights needed to operate and adapt bus networks, with precision.
The CitySwift platform was built to break down all of the barriers to data that bus network providers have to deal with. CitySwift partners no longer take action based on manual analysis, guesswork, and inaccessible and unreliable data. Instead, they meet and exceed punctuality and reliability goals, without compromising on resources. Bus giants like National Express and Transport for Wales are using CitySwift to power their passenger experience. Networks built on CitySwift are reliable, efficient, and punctual – free of friction and catered to passenger needs.
What makes CitySwift so powerful is that the team comes from a background of real-world bus industry experience. Merging this industry experience with deep knowledge of data science, bus networks can get the best of both worlds.
Tell us about your latest products, services, promotions or launches that visitors can hope to see on your stand:
CitySwift will be launching two new products at the Euro Bus Expo 2022.
-CitySwift Network: Network provides bus networks with the occupancy, capacity, and origin-destination insights they need to match supply and demand by incorporating CitySwift’s proprietary origin-destination algorithm.
-CitySwift Discovery Packs: Discovery Packs are a range of dashboards delivering brand new insights across bus networks, tailored to problem areas like Driver Performance, Running Board Analysis, and Bus Priority measures.
Why is exhibiting at Euro Bus Expo 2022 an unmissable opportunity for you?
We’re looking forward to getting the opportunity to learn more about emerging trends and innovation within the industry, meet new and existing clients, and launch some really exciting products we’ve been working on the past few months