And report traffic offences at the touch of a button Later this year, a new app is set to be available to UK drivers which will convert a smartphone into a dashcam to report traffic …
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Designing VIA Rail’s new Corridor fleet’s look & feel to a new standard (PriestmanGoode)
PriestmanGoode designed the interiors for VIA Rail Canada’s new Corridor fleet setting a new standard in passenger rail experience that’s unparalleled, fully accessible and barrier-free. The project also encompassed the livery design for the new …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 24 March 2023
• Attempts to restart the Western Rail Link to Heathrow (IanVisits) • 20 years after Congestion Charge began, let’s recognise TfL as a tech innovator (OnLondon) • Weirdest ride ever! Riding through London’s new, pre-effluent …
Continue readingThe promise of lithium-sulfur batteries (TransportWeekly)
Low in cost and high in density, a lithium-sulfur battery could power the future of transport — if it ever gets to market. The element sulfur is cheap and plentiful. There‘s so much of it …
Continue readingHigh subway & metro construction costs are not about precarity (PedestrianObvs)
I’ve seen people who I think highly of argue that high construction costs in the United States are an artifact of precarity. The argument goes that the political support for public transportation there is so …
Continue readingGreater Manchester secures devolution deal for regional rail services (RailwayNews)
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has secured a new devolution deal with the UK government to provide the local authority with more influence over regional rail services within its Bee Network. The Bee Network is …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 20 March 2023
• Elizabeth line is now the UK’s busiest railway (IanVisits) • The Beauty of Toilets: Southern Railway stations shine anew (BeautyOfTransport) • World’s longest cycle tunnel opens in Bergen Norway (Jalopnik) • New York has …
Continue readingData is the new oil: how to mine & refine it for railways (RailEngineer)
M The phrase “data is the new oil” was coined in 2006. Like oil, data is of little value unless it is extracted, refined, processed, and distributed. This metaphor also alludes to the case of …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 17 March 2023
• TfL going paper ticket free will leave Londoners behind (LondonTravelWatch) • The Short Story of London’s Trolleybuses: Video (JagoHazzard) • Reopening of abandoned Merseyside railway under consideration (AnonWidower) • Why Nancy is scrapping its …
Continue readingFlixbus to test two prototype electric coaches (Bus-News)
Under a recent partnership with Daimler Buses, FlixBus has announced that it will test two prototype long-distance electric coaches in real operating conditions. This project is supported by funding from the German Ministry for Economic Affairs …
Continue readingWill there be a direct train from [insert city] to London through the Chunnel? (JonWorth)
Basel, Switzerland. The latest city for which a direct train to London has been proposed. It is unlikely to get it, as are Geneva, Köln (CDU-Green NRW coalition agreement Page 132), Frankfurt and Bordeaux. And Marseille and Lyon are unlikely to get …
Continue readingNow this is how to design disruption workaround info & graphics (PrintMag)
New Standards for New York’s Underground The MTA (New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority), through its advertising agency, commissioned Waterhouse Cifuentes Design to develop a system to inform its ridership of Planned Work diversions for the subway. The …
Continue readingAre passengers getting a good ride? (RailEngineer)
There has been much criticism of the ride comfort of the most recent trains brought into use on the British rail network such as the class 8XX Inter City Express Trains (IET). Critics compare them …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 13 March 2023
• TfL data shows 20mph speed limits significantly reduce collisions & injuries (IntelligentTransport) • Underground perfection & imperfection, Tube Mapper’s Luke Agbaimoni: Video (RailNatter) • Vienna’s symphony of public transport: Video (UrbanCyclingInst) • The good, …
Continue readingChicago electric bus cold weather range reduction problems (APNews)
The No. 66 bus is packed on a recent weekday afternoon as it starts and stops its way from Chicago’s near west side to Navy Pier along the Lake Michigan shore. The seats and windows …
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