Denmark’s governmental rail body, Banedanmark, is in the process of electrifying the mainline Danish railway in a £1.4billion programme that started in 2014 and is due to be completed in 2028. The program has already …
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New York City is drowning in package deliveries & packages (MITTechReview)
Online orders, which ramped up with the start of the pandemic, are still clogging city streets. Amazon, Hello Fresh, Stitch Fix. Click a button, and it’s there in three to five days—perhaps even one. Packages, …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 20 February 2023
• Germany’s pre-WW2 Zeppelin spy flights: Video (CalibanRising) • Railways are instrumental in evacuations, this time in earthquake-hit Turkey (RailTech) • Behind the scenes at NYC Subway’s Power Control Center (IRideHarlemLine) • Process of mapping …
Continue readingAwareness & effect of £2 bus fare – Survey (TransportFocus)
Transport Focus wanted to understand more about awareness of the recently introduced £2 bus fare and whether it has led to more journeys being made on buses. From 1 January the government introduced a £2 …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 17 February 2023
• Fast charge battery trial to resume after GWR agrees to purchase Vivarail assets (RailUK) • Wales road building projects stopped after failing climate review (Guardian) • Ottawa’s LRT didn’t go wrong, it started wrong …
Continue readingElectric semis/HGVs are coming & truck stops aren’t ready (Bloomberg)
Next month, Tesla Inc. plans to deliver the first of its electric Semi trucks—able to haul a full 40 ton-load some 500 miles on a single charge. These massive batteries-on-wheels may accelerate the transition to electrified transport, but those responsible for delivering …
Continue readingPop Art tunnel Michelangelo – Dragados & the Art of Tunnel Scanning
On July 20, 2022, the heat from an exploratory drill inside Montréal’s century old Mont-Royal railway tunnel, advance work for the city’s modern Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) automated Métro line, caused an explosion. It was …
Continue readingDeutsche Bahn, Lufthansa see major increase in air-rail demand (RailTech)
Deutsche Bahn (DB) and Lufthansa have registered a 25-per cent increase in joint air-rail services to and from Frankfurt Airport over the past two years, the companies write on Monday. In April 2021, DB and …
Continue readingWhat are the differences between PACE vs GRIP? (RailDiary)
GRIP, a project by Network Rail to help deliver efficiency improvements on the rail network, has been replaced by a new programme called PACE. It’s been claimed that PACE will have an even greater impact …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 13 February 2023
• Expanded ULEZ cut toxic NOx pollution across London by 23% report finds (Guardian) • Vancouver testing accessibility app to help sight challenged better navigate transit (MassTransit) • The best rapid transit in the US …
Continue readingTransformational impact of expanded Ultra Low Emission Zone so far (London.Gov)
Major new report shows that harmful pollution emissions have reduced by 26 per cent within the expanded ULEZ area – compared with what they would have been without the ULEZ coming into force. The report …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 10 February 2023
• A sneak peek inside the DLR’s new trains (IanVisits) • Network Rail & TfL announce partnership to create 20,000 new London homes (RailUK) • The hideous pedestrian tunnels marring access to the IMAX Roundabout …
Continue readingMajor West Midlands investment to kick start the VLR revolution (RailUK)
The Coventry Very Light Rail (CVLR) transport system is to be showcased on the streets of Coventry as part of a real-world testing programme following the approval of funding by regional transport bosses. The West …
Continue readingDfT’s route to Net Zero assumptions look quite off (TransportXtra)
Last month a Freedom of Information release was finally made by the Department for Transport with details of the calculations underpinning the Government’s transport decarbonisation plan. Professor Greg Marsden fought long and hard to get …
Continue readingLayoffs at Adif & Renfe after train too big for tunnels design debacle (RailTech)
An error in the design of the new fleet for the Spanish metric gauge networks in Asturias and Cantabria will likely delay delivery of the rolling stock by several years. The current train design means …
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