From left: Charlie Zelle, 2021 Busworld North America Chair; Don DeVivo, ABA Board of Directors Chairman; Peter Pantuso, ABA President & CEO; Vincent Dewaele, Busworld International Business Development Manager; and Jan Deman, Busworld Academy Director.

USA / Belgium - At what proved to be two days of very high-level seminars earlier this year by speakers from around the world on various subjects associated with public passenger transport and mobility at ABA’s Marketplace 2020 convention in Omaha, Nebraska - organized by Busworld Academy of Roeselare, Belgium (www.busworldacademy.org) together with the American Bus Association (www.buses.org) of Washington, DC - Busworld announced it was taking the partnership a major step further in 2021 with the launch of the first Busworld North America exhibition.

The new exhibition, seminar and meeting place convention is to take place in Baltimore over three days from 28th to 30th of January 2021. This exhibition is to take place every two years with Busworld Academy operating annually.

Jan Deman, president of Busworld Academy, said: “Our coming to America is part of an ongoing internationalization of Busworld and our coming to North America is thanks to The American Bus Association. ” The Busworld Academy in North America has been four in the making and with the decision to go ahead being agreed at Busworld Russia in Moscow two years ago.

This move to develop an international show in North America on a biennial basis is to actively encourage greater transmission of best practices in public transport and mobility around the world.

Please download the full report to read the articles which are a record of some of the high profile deliveries made during the two-day session with speakers coming from Europe, North America as well as Asia and India.