Upcoming Events
Upcoming conferences, events and webinars related to the bus sector are detailed below.
Wherever possible, BCoE events will be free, but third-party events may incur charges from the organisers.
Interested in hosting an event via the Bus Centre of Excellence? Want to notify us of an upcoming event? Please Let us know!
Webinar: Bus franchising – Competition and Markets Authority advice for Local Transport Authorities
In this webinar, we will discuss the recently published bus franchising advice paper for LTAs. The paper is intended to be a helpful tool for LTAs that are considering franchising proposals or developing franchising plans.
Conference: Anti-Social Behaviour & Violence Against Women and Girls on Transport
The Bus Centre of Excellence and the Department for Transport invite you attend the Anti-Social Behaviour including Violence Against Women and Girls' Conference on 28 November 2024 in Central London.
Breeze – Demonstrating Successful Collaboration for Mobility as a Service
Elaborating on their winning submission to the CIHT Collaboration Award, the Solent Transport MaaS leadership team will summarise the challenges, successes, and lessons learnt in delivering Breeze the UK’s largest MaaS platform.
Webinar: Delivering better buses – understanding the experience of bus passengers
This webinar will explore the overview of findings from Transport Focus’ Your Bus Journey survey 2023, building understanding with survey results to put passengers at the heart of planning and delivery of improved bus services.
Webinar: Defining the appropriate roles for DRT services
This webinar sets out common criteria by which to assess both DRT and fixed route services, including policy objectives, cost, efficiency, user benefits, and journey time.
Third-party Event: Guide Dogs and UCL Report Launch Event
BCoE members are invited to attend the launch of the joint report between Guide Dogs and UCL on ‘Designing for Inclusion – The accessibility challenges of some active travel infrastructure for people with vision impairment and other disabled people’.
Launch Event: Social Value Toolkit for Buses
Join us for the launch of the Social Value Toolkit for Buses, in recognition of the role that buses play for the delivery of Social Value.
Webinar: Changing bus networks through an incremental process versus a single-step approach
In this webinar, four international case studies will be used to compare different approaches, suggesting that the incremental process may incur less risk.
Imberbus
Join this unique event when a vintage bus service is run from Warminster in Wiltshire, to the abandoned village of Imber on the Salisbury Plain.
Integrating Demand Responsive Transport information in journey planners
This event will explore how DRT schemes can be integrated in third party journey planners such as Google Maps and Citymapper.
Designing Effective Road Safety Interventions Webinar
This presentation explores the development of evidence-based road safety interventions. Using empirical evidence and real-world case studies, it will illustrate best practice approaches to the design and evaluation of interventions which promote safer behaviours among road users.
CILT UK - Brighton & Hove Buses Looking to the Future
Ed Wills, Managing Director, of Brighton & Hove Buses will outline the company’s plans for the future in this webinar hosted by CILT UK.
Enhanced Partnership’s Chair Conference covering Transport East, Transport for the South East and England’s Economic Heartland
A Conference covering Transport East, Transport for the South East and England’s Economic Heartland, supported by the Bus Centre of Excellence.
Local Authority Skills and Capability Gaps in the Bus Sector
Intended Audience: Local authorities and those with an interest in developing local authority skills in providing bus services
Bus Operational Safety: Bus Operators and All Road Users Need to Know and Do
What bus operators, bus drivers, designers, highway and enforcement authorities and all road users need to know.
DRT - Joint Event with ITS UK Public Transport Forum
Save the date! For this joint, in-person event with the ITS UK Public Transport Forum on all things DRT.
RTIG Inform - Accessible Information Regulations & Grant Webinar (May 29th)
RTIG Inform presents a webinar covering are the regulations and how to ensure you can meet them and the support available from the accessible information grant
RTIG Inform - Accessible Information Regulations & Grant Webinar (May 21st)
RTIG Inform presents a webinar covering are the regulations and how to ensure you can meet them and the support available from the accessible information grant
The Bus Centre of Excellence Presents: Buses in Fleet
It All Starts Within the Local Community : Join this webinar hosted by Steven Caulston from Buses in Fleet and follow the journey to help create a better bus future through a community-led grass roots approach.
RTIG Inform - Accessible Information Regulations & Grant Webinar (May 14th)
RTIG Inform presents a webinar covering are the regulations and how to ensure you can meet them and the support available from the accessible information grant
Re-Designing Bus Networks: Lessons from Ireland and Overseas with Jarrett Walker
Jarrett Walker discusses how the reform of bus services across the UK is creating new opportunities to rethink the design of bus networks.
Public Sector Members' Network
The next meeting of the BCoE Public Sector Members’ Network will be on 8th May.
If you work for a Local Authority and would like to join the network, please email us.
Becoming a Chartered Transport Planning Professional (CTPP )– A Guide for Transport Planners in the Bus Sector
This webinar will cover an overview of the requirements and routes for you to become a Chartered Transport Planning Professional (CTPP). Chartered Transport Planning Professional is a qualification run jointly by the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation and the Transport Planning Society to recognise the skills and expertise of transport planners.
Becoming a Chartered Transport Planning Professional (CTPP )– A Guide for Transport Planners in the Bus Sector (Copy)
This webinar will cover an overview of the requirements and routes for you to become a Chartered Transport Planning Professional (CTPP). Chartered Transport Planning Professional is a qualification run jointly by the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation and the Transport Planning Society to recognise the skills and expertise of transport planners.
RTIG Inform - Accessible Information Regulations & Grant Webinar (May 3rd)
RTIG Inform presents a webinar covering are the regulations and how to ensure you can meet them and the support available from the accessible information grant
RTIG Inform - Bus User Priority Local Transport note
What does the new local transport note on Bus User Priority say? What does the note cover and what does it expect and what advice does it include?
RTIG Inform - Accessible Information Regulations & Grant Webinar
RTIG Inform presents a webinar covering are the regulations and how to ensure you can meet them and the support available from the accessible information grant
DRT Forum for Local Authorities
The purpose of the forum is to create a place for Local Authorities involved with DRT to network and share knowledge, issues and experiences.
Local Authorities DRT Forum
This forum is being held in collaboration with DfT and aims to create a place for LAs involved with or considering DRT to network and share knowledge, issues and experiences. It is intended for those running DRT or interested in finding out more about DRT.
Writing Your 2024 BSIP - Best Practice Workshop (online)
BCoE and DfT will host an online workshop event for those LTAs who were unable to attend the successful in-person workshops in Birmingham and London last week.
RTIG Inform - Enhanced Partnerships - Reporting
With EPs up and running we take a look at what the Bus Back Better strategy and the EP guidance says and what partnerships are achieving.
Bus Knowledge Sharing and Incident Network
This is the first meeting of the Bus Knowledge Sharing and Incident Network.