This webinar draws together speakers with direct experience in – and with different perspectives on – improving bus services and service networks, and what that can achieve. People coming to the webinar will gain insights into these new opportunities and how they can be used to deliver better bus planning and wider transport planning outcomes.
Hosted by Tiff Lynch, Chair of TPS Policy Panel’s Bus, Rail and Logistic Group
Facilitated by Stelios Rodoulis, from Bus Centre of Excellence (BCoE)
The Bus Services Act 2025 received Royal Assent on 27 October 2025. It reforms the ways that local transport authorities can shape their local bus networks to achieve their transport and socio-economic objectives – including setting up potential franchising schemes to replace parts of bus operators’ commercial bus networks. For transport planners, this is an opportunity to reinforce the role of an area’s bus network in supporting wider transport, spatial, socio-economic and environmental objectives and policies.
This webinar draws together speakers with direct experience in – and with different perspectives on – improving bus services and service networks, and what that can achieve.
People coming to the webinar will gain insights into these new opportunities and how they can be used to deliver better bus planning and wider transport planning outcomes.