A Smoother Ride is the Urban Transport Group's trio of papers on bus policy.
The first report, A Smoother Ride - Reviewing the Bus Services Act 2017 to empower local areas, recommended improvements to existing bus legislation.
The second, A Smoother Ride – Can capital investment deliver more efficient bus services?, showed that capital investment in zero emission buses and bus priority can unlock efficiencies.
The final report, A Smoother Ride: Unlocking a green bus revolution, explored how the benefits of zero emission buses can be realised and rolled out more rapidly.
Together, these three reports have rightly put the bus front and centre of future public transport policy.
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A Smoother Ride - Reviewing the Bus Services Act 2017 to empower local areas
Buses are the lifeblood of the UK’s public transport network. However, despite their popularity and utility, bus services have been trapped in a spiral of decline, exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. Six years on from the publication of the Bus Services Act 2017, and considering the vision and ambitions presented in the National Bus Strategy, this report sets out to review the provisions of the Act.
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A Smoother Ride – Can capital investment deliver more efficient bus services?
This paper explores whether capital investment in bus can be used to make bus services more efficient. Using modelling, it shows that capital investment in zero emission buses and bus priority can indeed unlock efficiencies, and that these benefits can be multiplied by combining that investment with enhanced revenue funding support.
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A Smoother Ride: Unlocking a green bus revolution
This report explores how the benefits of Zero Emission Buses (ZEBs) can be realised and rolled out more rapidly. It looks at the local and national policy reforms, funding arrangements and manufacturing capacity needed to unlock the delivery of ZEBs and fulfil fleet decarbonisation goals.
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