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Auckland Regional Transport Authority

The former Auckland Regional Transport Authority (ARTA) was established in 2004 to be the central co-ordinating agency for transport (especially but not only public transport) in the Auckland Region of New Zealand.

BahnCard

Deutsche Bahn is in the process of expanding the Bahncard to a fully fledged "mobility card", offering discounts on other transport related services, such as hotel reservations, car rental, car sharing, public transport, bicycle hire, and other services.

Eddington Transport Study

Transport 2000, the public transport advocacy group founded by railway unions in the 1970s, are reported to have said that revenue from road-pricing should be used to improve public transport, particularly the railway network, and not used for road-building.

Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority

The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (officially the GCRTA, but historically and locally referred to as the RTA) is the public transit agency for Cleveland, Ohio, United States, and the surrounding suburbs of Cuyahoga County.

Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales

IPART was established in 1992 by NSW State Government with the primary purpose of regulating the maximum prices for monopoly services by government utilities and other monopoly businesses such as public transport.

LED display

They are typically used outdoors in store signs and billboards, and in recent years have also become commonly used in destination signs on public transport vehicles or even as part of transparent glass area.

Lille tramway

The system is operated by Transpole, the public transport operator for the Lille Métropole.

Night bus lines in Israel

The Night bus lines in Israel are a project of the Ministry of Transport, intended to supply safe and easy public transport to the night entertainment places, for normal bus fares, which operated since 2009.

Patio Parada

Patio Parada has been designated as the future site of a multi-modal public transport terminus serving Rosario and its metropolitan area.

Politics of Helsinki

Like in all Finnish municipalities, the City Council of Helsinki is the main decision-making organ in local politics, dealing with issues such as city planning, schools, health care, and public transport.

South Florida Regional Transportation Authority

Replacing the pre-existing Tri-County Commuter Rail Authority, the goal of incorporation was to expand cooperation between the Tri-Rail commuter rail service and the existing county public transport authorities: Broward County Transit, Miami-Dade Transit, and Palm Tran.

Trams in Kimberley, Northern Cape

The Kimberley tramway network formed part of the public transport system in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa, for roughly 60 years until the late 1940s.

Transfield Services

Transfield Services operates across diverse industries, including mining and process, hydrocarbons, transport (including road, rail and public transport), utilities (including water, power, and telecommunications), facilities management and defence.

Transitplus

Transitplus was a privately owned public transport company which operated bus services from the South Australian capital Adelaide, to the Adelaide Hills, mainly Mount Barker area.

Transpole

Transpole is the public transport operator for the Lille Métropole, the metropolitan area surrounding the city of Lille in northern France.

Trolleybuses in George Town, Penang

The George Town trolleybus system was part of the public transport network in George Town, on the island of Penang (part of Malaysia since 1963), for more than 35 years in the mid-20th century.

WikiWikiWeb

Cunningham came up with the name WikiWikiWeb because he remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee who told him to take the Wiki Wiki Shuttle, a shuttle bus line that runs between the airport's terminals.

Woodside, Glasgow

Public transport includes Kelvinbridge and St George's Cross Subway stations.


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British Rail Class 143

Under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, all public transport will need to be accessible by 2019.

Brunswick Village

Public transport links to Brunswick are provided by Arriva North East bus route 45, linking the village to Wideopen, Gosforth and Newcastle every 30 minutes.

Carriedo LRT Station

Due to Carriedo station's location being near three districts, namely, Santa Cruz, Binondo and Quiapo, the station is served by many forms of public transport.

Cities in Motion

The goal of the game is to implement and improve a public transport system in 4 European cities - Amsterdam, Berlin, Helsinki and Vienna.

Curepipe

Prominent projects include the segregation of waste, judicious use of water, parking problems, the encouraging of public transport, the promotion of the SSR Curepipe Botanic Gardens and working towards minimizing the town's carbon footprint.

Disability Discrimination Act 1995

The Disability Discrimination Act 2005, which completed the implementation of the Disability Rights Task Force recommendations, including the extension of the DDA 1995 to cover public transport, and the introduction of a duty on public authorities to promote equality for disabled people.

Drumul Taberei

As the neighbourhood was heavily designed around public transport, parking spaces are rather scarce, and traffic jams and gridlock are quite common occurrences, especially at the Răzoare intersection, where one of the three center-bound roads out of Rahova meets two of the centerbound roads out of Drumul Taberei.

Embassy of the Philippines, Bandar Seri Begawan

The Philippine Embassy at the time was located at 473 Kampung Pelambayan in Kota Batu, and was located there until it relocated to the fourth and fifth floors of the Badi'ah Complex on Jalan Tutong on February 14, 1989, mostly due to complaints that the old location was not easily accessible by public transport.

Ernesto Nathan

A public transport network (ATAC) was created in 1911, as well as a city energy company (ACEA), in 1912.

Ernő Mesterházy

Ernő Mesterházy has been working not only as a counsellor to Demszky but also he had an authorization, a contract to represent Demszky in financial matters of Budapest including Metro building and BKV (Budapest's public transport company).

Farleigh, Surrey

As nearby New Addington to the northeast has been served by Tramlink, Fickleshole is relatively close to a good public transport system.

Flein

Public transport in the PTE HNV is ensured by buses, besides Flein is the only municipality in the district to be connected with the city bus network of Heilbronn.

Genova Piazza Principe railway station

Around the station are the termini of several bus lines of the Genoa public transport undertaking (Azienda Mobilità e Trasporti, AMT), the Ferrovia Principe-Granarolo cog railway and the Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto lift and has an hourly bus connection with the airport via the Christopher Columbus Volabus service.

Grafton Bridge

Since 2009 the bridge has formed a core part of the Central Connector public transport route between the CBD and Newmarket, and is closed to private vehicles during the day.

Green Valley Industrial Park

Public transport is available from nearby cities, special bus services provide transport from major cities like San Pedro Sula.

Hampton Court Palace Flower Show

Boyd's idea was that Network Southeast should sponsor a flower show at Hampton Court, and provide the public transport to Hampton Court railway station.

Havelian

Havelian's main public transport consist of auto rickshaws, modified Suzuki pickup vehicles, tongas, which can accommodate anywhere from 8 to 13 people at a time.

Herborn station

The public transport is operated under contract to the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (Rhine-Main Transport Association, RMV) by DB Regio and Hessische Landesbahn.

Heuliez Bus

It also made the GX 44, for the public transport authority of Nantes, which is based on an O305; and the GX 113, specifically for the city of Marseille.

History of transport in Hong Kong

When the British crown colony of Hong Kong began on the Hong Kong Island on 1842, there was no public transport.

Irisbus Arway

In Italy, it is in service with public transport companies at Piacenza, Ferrara, Brescia and Lodi and in Spain can be found in public transport companies of, for example, Madrid.

Kamco

Other companies have claimed they can provide alternative technical solutions at lower cost, but the Public Transport minister Terry Mulder said that it was not appropriate to consider these proposals until the Department of Treasury and Finance had costed the options in Deloitte's report.

Kellinghusenstraße station

Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (Public transport association for the Hamburg area)

Leppington, New South Wales

The only public transport in the area is the Route 850 bus service running along Camden Valley Way from Camden to Liverpool.

Metropolitan House

Built to a design by John Madin, it is home to many businesses including employment agencies, financial organisations and a major public transport operator.

MVG

Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft or Munich Transportation Company, the company responsible for operating public transport in Munich, Germany

Nagoya Agricultural Center

Access by public transport is a 15 minutes walk east from Hirabari Station on the Tsurumai Line.

Oslo Metro rolling stock

In 1996, the work to establish a financing package for new investments in public transport in Akershus and Oslo started.

Paul Mees

Mees's doctoral research was undertaken at the University of Melbourne and involved a comparison of public transport in Toronto and Melbourne.

Public Transport Council

The Public Transport Council (Abbreviation: PTC; Chinese: 公共交通理事会, Pinyin: Gōnggòng Jiāotōng Lǐshìhuì; Malay: Majlis Pengangkutan Awam) is an independent regulatory statutory board under the Ministry of Transport of Singapore, established on 14 August 1987 by the Public Transport Council Act of 1987.

Public transport in Christchurch

Christchurch's public transport system served as backdrop for Tim Veling's 2006 book "Red Bus Diary", in which the author toured the city on public buses and compiled the stories of the people he met.

Public transport in Istanbul

Public transport in Istanbul comprises a bus network, various rail systems, funiculars, and maritime services to serve the more than 13 million inhabitants of the city spread over an area of 5712 km².

Public transport in Sydney

Sydney was ranked as the fourth-worst public train system, beating only Los Angeles, São Paulo and Johannesburg for operation efficiency and coverage, while being proven to have the most expensive tickets of any major city public transport system.

Public transport in Wellington

The body responsible for planning and subsidising public transport in Wellington is the Greater Wellington Regional Council which pays around NZ$30 million for bus and train services each year.

Ragnar Søegaard

Ragnar Søegaard is chairman of Ruter, the public transport authority for Oslo and Akershus, Norway.

Rankbach Railway

The Federal Railway Authority (Eisenbahn-Bundesamt) approved at the beginning of May 2007 the second "Sindelfingen" planning section and the Verband Region Stuttgart (which coordinates public transport in the Stuttgart Region) issued zoning approval for it.

Röstånga

To get to Röstånga by public transport, one can take a local train to Stehag, then bus (directions Klippan, Skäralid and Ljungbyhed).

Roy Stanbrook

Neil Costa, Minister for Tourism, Public Transport and the Port, and chairman of the board of directors of the Gibraltar Port Authority, commented on his selection of Stanbrook to lead the Gibraltar Port Authority.

Second Harbour Crossing, Auckland

The second link would supplement the Auckland Harbour Bridge which is nearly at capacity and also provide more redundancy and added public transport linkages between Auckland City and North Shore City.

STIF

Syndicat des transports d'Île-de-France, the organizing public transport authority for Paris and the surrounding Île-de-France region.

The Galleria, Hatfield

By public transport, the centre can be accessed from Hatfield railway station or St Albans City railway station.

U-Pass

Universal transit pass, a program that allows Canadian and US university students access to public transport with a special card

VBL

Verkehrsbetriebe Luzern, the public transport operator for the Swiss city of Lucerne

Victor van der Chijs

Member of the Supervisory Board of RET, the main public transport operator in the Rotterdam metropolitan area (since 2011); and

Wellington Street, Perth

The area of the street facing the Perth railway station to the north, Forrest Place to the south, and bound by Barrack Street to the east, and William Street to the west, was effectively the transport hub of Perth from the 1880s when the first railway station was built, until the 1960s when public transport and private car usage changed significantly in Perth.

Yangon Circular Railway

In December 2012, Japan International Cooperation Agency began its collaboration with Yangon City Development Committee to develop a master plan for the Greater Yangon region, including the issue of public transport.

Yataity del Norte

Today, this district has public transport services with services interdistrict services and newspapers until the country's capital, Ciudad del Este, Pedro Juan Caballero, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.