Free and low cost online rail and transport webinars, as well as interesting conferences, listed (& regularly updated) from around the world. Updated 20 December 2025. • The UIC is hosting the webinar Europe’s Rail …
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New Tracks in the History of Railways Conference, 17-18 September 2020
We’d like to highlight the New Tracks in the History of Railways (NTIHOR) Conference to readers. It is a two-day Twitter conference, open to all, looking at new research and study in the field of …
Continue readingTransport Planning Camp in Leeds 9 Nov 2018
Transport Planning Camp is an unconference that will bring together transport planners, engineers, technologists, social activists, academics and others interested in the intersection of transport, technology, and our lives. We are driven by a desire …
Continue readingMovin’On Montréal State of the Art mobility – Part 1
The Movin’On event held in Montréal Canada in May 2018 was not a traditional transport conference, being styled more as a carnival of mobility. Much of the conference focused on incremental improvements to road vehicles …
Continue readingTropical Mathematics & Optimisation for Railways workshop (UBirmingham)
The main purpose of this workshop on Monday 18th June 2018 is to bring together specialists in tropical mathematics and mathematical optimisation applied in railway engineering and to foster further collaboration between them. It is …
Continue readingState of the Art Urban Transport (UITP)
Transport conferences can be technically dry affairs, policy wankfests, or both. Whilst there were a few monotone speakers at the Union Internationale des Transports Public (UITP), the global bi-annual event, hosted by Montréal, Canada in …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 23 February 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup: • Fourth London bus route goes fully electric (Intelligent Transport) • Court rules Paris car ban illegal (CityLab) • Trams may run again through Rome’s historic city …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 16 February 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup: • Poster Girls: London Transport’s support of female creatives (The Drum) • East meets west under London (Beauty of Transport) • Tube map of Tube maps (CartoGeek) …
Continue readingLecture : Mass transit in age of new mobility (UCL Bartlett School)
TfL’s Chief Technology Officer Shashi Verma is the next speaker in The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management’s 2017-18 keynote lecture series. Rapidly increasing urbanisation and digitisation of society means that the need for …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 2 February 2018
Welcome to Reconnections’ Friday Reads. This week’s lineup: • Ocean liner speed and style exhibition to open (V&A) • Woolwich Crossrail station (1LondonBlog) • British railway viaducts (The Beauty of Transport) • Who abandoned this …
Continue readingUnderstanding London’s underground railway infrastructure – Talk (IHR)
How the past explains the present in London’s crowded underground environment Nathan Darroch, University of Aberdeen Here is one of Nathan’s earlier papers on the same subject. 11 Jan 2018 17:30 to 19:30 Institute of …
Continue readingSecond Second Tuesday meeting
Just the briefest of reminders that we will have our next pub meeting on Tuesday 8th October from 6 o’clock onwards. Same details as last time. Click “Continue reading” for link to details of the …
Continue readingSecond Tuesday Meeting
Just a quick reminder to those interested. We intend to meet monthly for a drink and a chat at the Rose & Crown in Southwark on the second Tuesday of each month. This is the …
Continue reading“Beck and Beyond” at the LTM
The London Transport Museum appear to have an interesting talk on Wednesday 20th June as part of their “Mind the Map” Exhibition season – a talk looking at the legacy of Beck’s iconic Tube map …
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