Uno (bus company)
bus company operated by University of Hertfordshire
Universitybus Limited, trading as Uno, is a bus operator owned and operated by the University of Hertfordshire, serving members of the general public, and also its own students and staff. The service was set up in 1992, growing out of a shuttle service previously operated for students at Wall Hall College located near Watford connecting them to the other campuses of the university and the Polytechnic (Hatfield) before that.
It provides student transport to the university from local areas as well as improving east–west travel across Hertfordshire and has opened up new links from North London. Services have expanded as the university has closed outlying sites at Watford and Hertford and developed the new de Havilland Campus on the site of the former Hatfield Aerodrome, Hatfield. Other developments on this site, including business premises for companies such as Veolia, DHL and EE have also provided passengers. Uno also operate urban bus networks in St Albans and formerly operated in Northampton, a network of routes between Milton Keynes and Bedford for Cranfield University, as well as contracted bus services for Transport for London.
History
A bus operator named Universitybus was set up as an 'arm's length' company by the University of Hertfordshire in 1992. It has its own board of directors and is expected to run on a fully commercial basis.
Independent research later indicated that, as a consequence of subsequent expansion into running local bus service in Hertfordshire while still maintaining its core university services, the Universitybus brand was confusing a third of the county's bus users, who did not realise they could travel on the operator's bus services. As a result, in March 2005, Universitybus was rebranded as Uno, with the operator's fleet adopting a pink and purple livery designed by Best Impressions.
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