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The Hertz car rental company has revealed a commitment to bring electric vehicles to its car rentals and car sharing programmes. The corporation announced its Commitment to Action at this year’s Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).
 
Hertz feels that as the world’s biggest general-use airport car rental company, it is in the best position to bring urban drivers, travellers, corporations and university students round to the idea of driving an electric vehicle. The company is hoping that by leading the initiative, other cities and partners around the world will provide the infrastructure needed for mass scale electric mobility. [...]

Budget airline bmi is looking to go head-to-head with British Airways as it announces plans to run a daily service from London to Libya. The new competition between the two rival carriers could lead to great prices for customers.
 
The new bmi route is set to run between London Heathrow Airport and Tripoli Airport. The carrier, which plans to bolster links for oil workers, is looking to start flying from December 1 this year. Until now, many  workers have been flying with bmi from Aberdeen to Heathrow before switching to British Airways.
 
Bmi already fly to oil rich areas around the world, [...]

Bmi customers could soon be using the airline for services to and from Libya. The Lufthansa owned carrier has announced that as of 1 December it aims to challenge British Airways with its own daily service from Heathrow to Tripoli. The addition of another African route will complement Bmi’s services to other cities on the [...]

A Pakistan International Airlines plane has been forced to make a landing at Arlanda Airport near Stockholm, Sweden, after a woman reported to authorities in Canada that a man on board was carrying explosives. The man, described as a Canadian who was originally from Pakistan, and in his 30s, has been released following questioning.
The Boeing 777 had left Toronto and was en route to Karachi when the pilot was informed that there might be explosives on board. The plane was in Swedish airspace at the time and the pilot radioed Arlanda requesting permission to make an emergency landing, according to [...]

A memorial is to be unveiled later today in commemoration of the country’s worst ever rail disaster. A plaque has been put up near Gretna Green on the Quintinshill Bridge in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland to remember the 227 people who lost their lives when three trains collided nearby on 22 May 1915.
The tragedy happened when a train carrying soldiers of the Royal Scots, on their way to fight in the First World War, slammed into a stationary goods train. A train heading north from London then collided with the wreckage. Of those who died in the accident, 215 were [...]

 
Motorists want to stick to speed limits but in reality struggle to do so, according to a new survey. In a study carried out by the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM), nearly 90 percent of the 3,000 people interviewed in August and September said they always aimed to comply with speed limits, but 60 percent said they found it difficult to do so.
 
IAM director of policy and research, Neil Greig, said that it is encouraging that people are wanting to obey the law but worrying that many find it challenging. He suggested that both pressure from other traffic and temptation [...]

Hertz, one of the largest car rental companies in the United Arab Emirates, has scrapped an unlimited mileage scheme in the area after a surge of customers started using its vehicles to travel between Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The firm has implemented a 4,000kms cap on mileage per month from the start of September.
 
The limit applies only to customers who rent cars by the month and has since been increased to 5,000kms since it was first introduced. Hertz claims the larger allowance means that 98 percent of their customers will not face additional charges due to the scheme.
 
Hertz UAE spent [...]

The Institute of Advanced Motorists has been carrying out research which shows that many of the country’s drivers try to remain within the speed limit, but find it difficult to do so. In August and September, the organisation polled 3,000 motorists and found that nearly 90 per cent of those that responded meant to remain [...]

VisitScotland, the publicly-funded Scottish tourism body, has confirmed that former chief executive, Philip Riddle, has been given a payoff worth £240,000. Riddle left his post earlier this year and was replaced by Malcolm Roughead, the organisations head of marketing. Riddle will receive £113,000 into his pension with a £127,000 gross settlement.
MSP for Scottish Labour, George Foulkes, said the deal was astonishing at a time of such economic uncertainty. He added that it raised questions over how the organisation was being run. Iain Smith of the Lib Dems described the settlement as an extraordinary sum of money.
VisitScotland has released a statement [...]

The merger between British Airways and Spanish carrier Iberia is looking ever more likely following a board meeting held in Madrid on Wednesday. One of the largest remaining hurdles to an eventual tie-up had been BA’s massive pension deficit. In June, BA came to an agreement with pension trustees on how to deal with the £3.7 billion black hole.
Iberia has endorsed the plans which involve the New Airways Pension Scheme, with a gap of £1.7 billion, being closed in 2026. The Airways Pension Scheme, with a gap of £1 billion will balance its books in 2023. Cash contributions to both [...]

The 2010 South African Solar Challenge is underway and has secured a sponsorship deal with car rental firm Avis which will be providing 21 support vehicles. The race kicked off in Pretoria and will last for 10 days. The competitors, all driving solar powered vehicles, will have to complete a 4,000 mile route finishing back [...]

Tim O’Toole, the former London Underground boss who is to replace Sir Moir Lockhead as CEO of FirstGroup, has said he thinks the next few years for the public transport industry are likely to be challenging. Mr O’Toole will take the helm at FirstGroup when the company’s founder steps aside on 1 November.
Mr O’Toole said the impending threats to the funding of bus networks and reforms in the rail franchise system could throw up some hurdles, but believes that in the long run FirstGroup is big enough to rise to the challenges.
He added that the worst of the cuts in [...]