Catch the Bus Month is a nationwide campaign in the UK that takes place annually in September. Organised by Bus Users UK, it aims to promote bus travel and raise awareness about the benefits of using public transport. The campaign encourages people to switch from cars to buses, highlighting bus travel’s environmental, economic, and social …

CEN is the European Committee for Standardization. It is an association that brings together the National Standardization Bodies of 34 European countries. CEN provides a platform for developing European Standards and other technical documents concerning various kinds of products, materials, services and processes. CEN supports standardization activities in relation to a wide range of fields …

In Contactless Model 3, a contactless EMV card or device is associated with a pre-purchased ticket and used to travel. Travelling on a Contactless Model 3 scheme would require you to tap an associated contactless card on a card reader before travel so the bus operator can confirm the card gives you the authority to …

Tap & Cap is one of several names given to the type of Contactless Model 2 payment method. It allows you to simply “tap” your contactless payment card (or device) onto a reader at the start of your journey. What you are charged for the journey is calculated later and then automatically from your account. …

Contactless Model 2 is the type of contactless card payment that you experience when you travel on public transport in some large towns and cities. A good example of this in the UK is London. Some Contactless Model 2 schemes require you to tap on when you board and then tap off when you get …

Contactless Model 1 is the type of contactless card payment that you experience in a retail environment, like a shop. The products you are buying are totalled up by the cashier, or a self-service machine, and you pay the total on the screen with your contactless payment card. When paying in this way on a …

The voice of the bus and coach sector, CPT brings together over 1,000 bus and coach operators across the UK, plus a wide range of suppliers to the bus and coach industries, including vehicle manufacturers, software providers and law firms.

A journey that is operated according to a contract between two or more organisations, at least one of whom is a bus service provider. Most contracts of this nature provide financial benefit to the operator, usually from a council, and are legally required to be put out to tender among interested parties; payments vary in …

A journey operated without financial assistance of any kind. Services of this kind are entirely dependent on its passengers to provide sufficient funds in the form of fares for it to sustain a profit. Some commercial services may be operated under contract to specific organisations with no financial benefit to speak of other than fare …

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