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Stagecoach celebrates its female engineers on International Women in Engineering Day
- Increase in female engineering apprentices joining the business
- A total of over 1,200 apprentices across Stagecoach
- Well-established engineering apprentice and ‘trade-up’ schemes offer great opportunities
- Female engineering internal network events planned
Stagecoach supports Armed Forces Day 2022 with nationwide free travel
- Free travel for military and ex-military personnel on 25 and 26 June
- Commitment to Armed Forces highlighted by employee led Veterans Network
- Free bus travel also available annually on UK Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday
Stagecoach buses and coaches ready to keep Britain on the move during rail strikes
- Network of 7,300 buses and coaches covering 100 key towns and cities across the UK
- Capacity available to help cut congestion and connect people with work, school and leisure
- Coach sales during week of rail strikes c85% higher as travellers plan alternatives
- Stagecoach app offers real time bus tracking and easy mobile ticketing
Stagecoach announces national charity partnerships and launches new ‘Giving for Good’ initiative
- New charity partnerships with Missing People, the Trussell Trust, Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children's Charity and Happy Days
- Part of Stagecoach's strategy to donate 0.5% of pre-tax profits to charitable causes
- Demonstrates commitment to fostering community development, backed up by long term sustainability strategy
Stagecoach celebrates Scottish Bus Week by encouraging people to ditch their cars and try the bus
- Community events planned across Scotland
- Free journeys being offered on vintage buses
- Helping reduce carbon emissions with one full double decker bus taking 70 cars off the road
Stagecoach officially opens new customer contact centre in Perth, offering improved customer service to communities across the UK
- Demonstration of continued commitment to customers and communities served
- New centre has created over 60 full-time roles
- Improved seven-day a week service with extended opening hours
- Marks key milestone in its customer transformation strategy
UK’s first full-sized autonomous bus takes to the roads of Scotland for the first time
- Live road testing taking place from this week for next two weeks
- Passenger service planned to go live in late summer
- Europe’s most complex and ambitious public autonomous bus pilot
- Over 20 Stagecoach ‘Autonomous Bus Professionals’ being recruited to support the service
Stagecoach takes major step towards the opening of new Perth customer contact centre as Scottish customers start to use the new service
- Demonstration of continued commitment to customers and communities served
- Scottish pilot begins this week in Perth with full opening planned for May
- Improved seven-day a week service with extended opening hours
New report from Stagecoach sets out pathway to attracting over one million new passengers to the UK’s bus networks through the switch to Zero Emission Buses
- New report sets out pathway to attracting over one million new passengers to the UK’s bus networks through the switch to Zero Emission Buses (ZEBs)
- Research makes clear that the costs of the transition cannot fully be borne by passengers, with fare rises to finance the increased costs of greener buses risking a significant reduction in bus patronage
- Results show that three quarters of people in Yorkshire want to see their local bus company move to ZEBs, whilst 17% would use the bus more if ZEBs replaced local diesel buses
- Report highlights significant operational and commercial challenges all bus operators face to introducing a full ZEB fleet
- It sets out a detailed plan for introducing greener buses, with a series of recommendations for industry, government and local authorities to meet the practical challenges and deliver on passenger expectations, including securing a sustainable long-term funding model