• The architecture & history of Victoria Coach Station (NewWipersTimes) • Dick Robbins, TBM innovator obituary (TunnelTalk) • To reduce emissions, ban non-electric cars (Bloomberg) • Five promises of micromobility, based on the data (FlorentCrivello) …
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Highlights of SmartRail Munich 2019 (SmartRailWorld)
We calculate there are currently 55 million different train fares in the UK — it’s a system of bewildering complexity and bafflement by those who use it. We want to move to a new system …
Continue readingWill 5G enable railway cyber threats? (Railway-Technology)
Huawei and China Mobile recently launched 5G at Shanghai’s Hongqiao Railway Station, which will allow passengers to download a 2GB high-definition film in less than 20 seconds. However, the move has raised concerns about how …
Continue readingThe Electric Vehicle revolution will be dirty (RadicalUrbanist)
Batteries for new cars will require a lot of new mining. Politicians love to tout incentives for electric vehicles as a great climate initiative. Replacing gas- and diesel-powered vehicles, they say, will reduce emissions and …
Continue readingAre batteries or hydrogen best for electric buses? (Governing)
As transit agencies move away from fossil fuels, they are figuring out which environmentally friendly option is right for them. Public transit agencies are often among the first customers for vehicles that run on new …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 17 June 2019
• Old Street roundabout transformed to improve safety (Transport-Britain) • The urine deflectors of Fleet Street (AtlasObscura) • Homemade app shows shocking scale of Northern Rail delays (Wired) • Seattle found the solution to driving …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 14 June 2019
• London tops most pricey public transport league table (Forbes) • Four new London Low Emission Neighbourhoods to be created (AirQualityNews) • New interactive map provides UK railway station accessibility info (SignDesignSoc) • The Magic …
Continue readingOptimised curbs of the future (Medium)
A year ago, Uber and the City of Cincinnati announced the Cincinnati Mobility Lab, a multi-year partnership that seeks to develop innovative transportation strategies in collaboration with the City of Cincinnati and local transit and …
Continue readingDutch converting light metro line to tram (IRJ)
Thre Amstelveen hybrid tram/light metro line linking Amsterdam South and Amstelveen Westwijk closed on the night of March 2-3, 2019 for conversion to a conventional tram line under a €300m project which is due to …
Continue readingBogota’s BRT success growing pains (CityFix)
Celebrating 18 Years of TransMilenio: Growing Pains and What Lies Ahead for Bogotá’s BRT Eighteen years ago, I was deputy general manager of TransMilenio S.A., the city agency running Bogotá’s brand new bus rapid transit …
Continue readingShould transit be free? (TransitCentre)
Free transit sounds like a utopian fever dream. Imagine being able to hopscotch your city on a bus, never again needing to fumble for your ticket, seeing the dreaded “insufficient fare” message on the fare …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 10 June 2019
• Hydra London High Line at Greenwich O2 (HydeParkNow) • Newcastle reopening Northumberland Line (RailEngineer) • Mulhouse beat High Street blues with transport, pedestrians (PriceTags) • Living close to public amenities could improve your life …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 7 June 2019
• Thames Barrier pedestrian/cycling bridge proposal (IanVisits) • Tyne & Wear Metro modernisation video (RailBusinessDaily) • Bus use increasing in only one part of Britain (UrbanTransportGroup) • Living on top of a railway viaduct (PopUpCity) …
Continue readingElectric bus roadblocks & solutions (Curbed)
Transportation is one of the largest sources of carbon emissions, and amid the barrage of big-picture initiatives and bold pledges, one of the simplest, quickest-to-implement solutions is electrifying buses. Unlike so many other proposed climate …
Continue reading4 transport circular economy examples (Movin’On)
The traditional economy has long been a linear system of take, make, dispose. The circular economy supports production cycles that minimize waste using metrics to reduce materials and increase recycling, reuse and repair once objects …
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