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Results slightly above our revised guidance, with overall financial performance significantly impacted by COVID-19 in regional bus and losses in German rail

The Department for Transport (DfT) has announced that GTR’s Emergency Measures Agreement (EMA), which ended on 20 September 2020, has been replaced by an Emergency Recovery Measures Agreement (ERMA).

The Go-Ahead Group today announces that the Land Transport Authority (LTA) of Singapore has granted a two-year contract extension to Go-Ahead Singapore to continue operating around 450 buses in the Loyang region of the island.

Go-Ahead today welcomes the announcement from the Department for Transport (DfT) regarding extended funding of bus services in England, to be provided by the UK Government. 

• Go-Ahead bus company East Yorkshire is launching a demand-responsive bus service in North Lincolnshire next month
• The scheme, called ‘JustGo North Lincs’ is funded by North Lincolnshire Council, providing a sustainable financial model for demand-responsive transport
• Passengers in the region can book a bus on demand through a few taps of an app

• Go-Ahead’s Billion Journey Project is the UK’s largest transport accelerator programme for start-up and scale-up businesses
• Swiftly worked with bus company Go South Coast to improve efficiencies by 15 per cent to enable more reliable and quicker journeys
• Nine innovative companies trialed their technology across Go-Ahead’s bus and rail businesses

• Go-Ahead has developed a unique predictive technology tool to help customers plan the best time to travel on bus services
• ‘When to Travel’ offers dynamic, colour coded bus timetables that show seat availability on services, giving customers who need to travel the confidence to plan bus journeys
•  The app and website feature, launching today, helps passengers avoid busy times whilst capacity is reduced to enable social distancing

• Go-Ahead bus companies have created home activity sheets for children to support parents
• Go South Coast launches online ‘bus school’ with English and art activities
• Buses continue to be at the heart of communities even though fewer services are running