Transport for London and Jacobs have developed a novel transport demand modelling tool to provide a more sophisticated response to the challenge of planning rail investment as the mobility sector enters an era of profound …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 30 November 2020
• Restoring a heritage London Underground roundel totem (IanVisits) • Alexandra Palace’s never opened Tube station – video (JagoHazzard) • A conversation with London’s Walking & Cycling Commissioner (StreetsBlog) • Clermont-Ferrand’s one-off monorail tram now …
Continue readingVery light rail demonstrators prep’d for testing (RailwayGazette)
This year should see not one but two prototypes of very light rail vehicles being tested in the UK. Karol Zemek talks to Dr Nick Mallinson, Programme Manager at WMG Centre of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult at the University …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 27 November 2020
• London hospital trust to pay £250k for a LTN for public health benefits (Guardian) • Do bike lanes have an accessibility problem? (CityLab) • Finding City Road, Islington’s abandoned Tube station video (JagoHazzard) • …
Continue reading13 More Île-de-France tram-trains ordered (RailwayGazette)
Alstom has been awarded a €70m firm order to supply Transilien SNCF with a further 13 Citadis Dualis tram-trains, funded by Île-de-France Mobilités. The order announced on November 16 has been placed under a 2007 …
Continue readingScooters are badly designed & increase inequality (FastCo)
The ideal shared electric scooter would work and look quite differently. Shared electric scooters are the vanguard of new micromobility fleets that are being deployed in cities across the United States. There are good reasons …
Continue readingUsing big data to avoid Tube crowding (BBC)
Tucked away on Transport for London’s (TfL) website is a glimpse of what the future could hold for passengers so that they can avoid using public transport at busy times. Currently it is rather slow …
Continue readingTop Moustaches of Transport in London
A good moustache imparts great style, character, and gravitas to the wearer; a poor one subtracts equally. Here are some moustaches related to transport out and about in London, real and fictional. May or may …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 23 November 2020
• Preston’s iconic bus station brought to life in illustration (TransportDesigned) • Managing railway earthworks in a changing climate (GarethDennis) • Study reveals the world’s most walkable cities (Guardian) • Europe is finally slowing down… …
Continue readingTrial enforces face coverings on London rail (GlobalRailway)
Great Northern, Southeastern, Southern and Thameslink worked with the British Transport Police to enforce face covering rules over an eight-week period, experiencing a 98.4 per cent success rate. As part of ongoing work by the rail industry to increase …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 20 November 2020
• Roundel replaced by PlayStation buttons at Oxford Circus (TheGamer) • Low traffic schemes (LTNs) don’t only benefit better-off: new study (Guardian) • Paris massively invests in Grand Paris Express Metro lines (UrbanTransportMag) • Now …
Continue readingNew rail station building at Gatwick Airport (RailBusinessD)
Building work started on Gatwick Airport’s huge new railway station concourse on Sunday, as the first train arrived at one of the platforms that has been rebuilt. The £150m project has seen many changes at …
Continue readingRebuild route alternate to Manchester Castlefield congestion (RailFreight)
An alternative proposal has been tabled to relieve congestion in Manchester’s notorious Castlefield Corridor. The short section of twin-track across the south side of the city centre is running at over capacity, and it is …
Continue readingNorth America’s newest metro train: Alstom Metropolis (RMTransit)
Reece of RMTransit had the pleasure of visiting the Montréal REM [Réseau express métropolitain] yard in Brossard on the South Shore and get a first-hand look at the Alstom Metropolis automated trains that will be …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 16 November 2020
• Hidden London Hangouts explores the Kingsway Tram Tunnel (LTMuseum) • Details of Nicholas Grimshaw’s Waterloo Int’l station design (Dezeen) • Skip stop at Otterington Station (BeautyOfTransport) • Mapping Britain’s intercity footpaths (BBC) • Stop …
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