The Spanish railway infrastructure operator, Adif, and Ukrzaliznytsia will develop a pilot project using the technology for automatically adjusting the gauge of freight wagons to different tracks for western transitions, this is reported by the …
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$16bn New York City tunnel learning from London tunnel projects (NewCivilEng)
A key member of the newly formed project team set to build the $16bn (£13bn) Hudson Tunnel Project has said how early designs and plans for the scheme are taking learnings from similar tunnelling projects …
Continue readingTunnelling to Euston HS2 station to start next year (Building)
HS2 is hoping to start tunnelling work from Old Oak Common station to the mothballed Euston station next year. A team featuring Costain, Skanska and Austrian firm Strabag has begun work to tunnel the route …
Continue readingHow the e-scooter ban has changed mobility in Paris (CitiesToday)
Six months on from its landmark vote to ban shared e-scooters, Cities Today spoke with Paris’ Shared Mobility Manager, Natalia Ciciarello, about the impact the decision has had and how the city is now dealing …
Continue readingThird rail or batteries could replace Southern diesel trains on a couple of lines (RailBusinessUK)
Govia Thameslink Railway is unable to commit to decarbonisation of its operations unless Network Rail and the Department for Transport agree to fund and implement alternatives to diesel operation on the un-electrified Ashford – Hastings …
Continue readingEuropean rail freight to see major changes in 2024 (Trains)
Europe’s biggest rail freight companies are facing major challenges in 2024, despite efforts by politicians to encourage more freight movement by rail and less by road. In some countries, new ownership or new companies are …
Continue readingNew eBRT2030 publication lays out electric bus rapid transit future innovation (UITP)
By the turn of the 21st century, already 25 cities globally had implemented BRT systems. Fast forward to 2022, and worldwide there are 191 cities with operating BRT systems, with 76 BRTs opening in the …
Continue readingA new signalling system for the New York Subway (RailTech)
The New York City subway system is getting a makeover. Specifically, a team composed of Nordic Signals and two major US-based engineering companies is in the process of helping the MTA replace the old signalling …
Continue readingMuch Ado about Level Boarding: TfL & UK Urban Rail (Part 1)
In February 2024, TfL announced its Equity in Motion plan to create a fair and inclusive transport network, with over 80 measures to make London transport more accessible. The plan sets out how the transport …
Continue readingTackling the Tube’s Roar: TfL’s battle against tube tunnel noise (IanVisits)
Transport for London (TfL) is exploring new ideas to reduce screeching noise from trains inside tube tunnels. Most of the noise comes from wear and tear on the top of the rail where the surface …
Continue readingBringing school bus operations into the 21st century (FastCompany)
As transportation director at Kimberly School District in Kimberly, Idaho, Shonia Gaston knows a lot about work-arounds… “I started as a driver in 1984,” says Gaston. “We had hand-drawn maps.” In the past 40 years …
Continue readingOrder in Very Light Rail – VLR – development (UKTram)
A recent deal that will lead to trials of new lightweight passenger trains has been welcomed by a recently established very light rail (VLR) working party. Late last year, one of the country’s leading rolling …
Continue readingSeattle to add battery buses that use wireless inductive charging (SmartCitiesDive)
Dive Brief Dive Insight With more than $20 billion in grants available for bus purchases and supporting infrastructure through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, orders for zero-emission transit buses by transit agencies jumped 66% in 2022 over the …
Continue readingWhere is everybody on the subway going? Modeling riders’ travel patterns at scale (MTA)
What subway station has the most passengers getting on the train? What subway line has the most riders? What subway station has the most passengers getting off the train? These should be easy questions for the MTA …
Continue readingActive travel in Outer London boroughs with mini-Hollands increases: survey (JTransport&Health)
This paper uses six years of longitudinal data to examine impacts of active travel infrastructure in Outer London. This paper analyses six years’ data from the People and Places longitudinal study. The study examines travel …
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