• The 1967 GLC scheme for London monorail people movers (C20Society) • And the corresponding unbuilt monorails map (NotQuiteTangible) • Pandemic lack of public restrooms reduces mobility, esp for women (StreetsBlog) • Include poor, minority …
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Better rail station air quality to fight Covid (Railway-Tech)
Data analytics company EMSOL has been working with Network Rail to monitor air quality in train stations and come up with a strategy to bring down pollution around them. The project could largely benefit patients …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 25 May 2020
• London ULEZ, LEZs, and Congestion Charge now reinstated (AirQualityNews) • 10 proposals for new or reopened railway lines in gov’t Ideas Fund (RailInsider) • Newcastle city centre making car-free paths (TransportXtra) • Cities have …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 11 May 2020
• UK Govt boosts cycling & walking with £2bn post-pandemic plan (Forbes) • We need health warning labels on fossil fuel sales (BritishMedJ) • New metro rail services urged to connect housing clusters (CIHT) • …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 27 April 2020
• Legal bid launched to stop government’s £27bn road building plans (Forbes) • Missing taking a train? Take a KX-Leeds ride from the cab (LNER) • Norway’s A-ha moment that made it an electric car …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 24 April 2020
• That MIT study about the subway spreading COVID is crap (StreetsBlog) • Milan’s big plan to prevent post crisis traffic pollution (Guardian) • Paris to create 650km of cycleways for post-lockdown (Forbes) • Airlines …
Continue readingAir pollution filters protect NHS & patients from COVID (AirQualityNews)
Healthcare transport provider, the HATS Group (HATS), is installing clean air technology in 100 vehicles used to transport patients to help reduce exposure to coronavirus. AirLabs, which is supplying its ‘AirBubbl’ in-vehicle air filters to …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 20 April 2020
This edition has been compiled by guest editor Rosie Greene: • Tube train door sounds transcribed (ClassicFM) • London Transport moquette designs in pictures (Guardian) • London Overground offers model for UK rail overhaul (FT-£) …
Continue readingDecarbonising our railways (UKRRIN)
Where are we and what do we need to do next? Climate change increasingly dominates our news agenda – and for the rail industry, there is much discussion about how we best decarbonise the network. …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 17 April 2020
• The Social Distancing Machine for pedestrians (PriceTags) • New Zealand first to fund pop-up bike lanes & widened sidewalks (Forbes) • Climate Safe Streets: life without cars in 10 years (TransportXtra) • Rail station …
Continue readingGetting electrification done: Net Zero (RailEngineer)
On 24 June 2019, the House of Commons unanimously passed an amendment to the Climate Change Act that committed the UK to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Previously, the target had been 80 per cent …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 10 April 2020
• Survey of city actions to support walking, cycling during COVID (PedBikeInfo) • Coronavirus reveals transit’s true mission (CityLab) • Free rail travel to those fleeing domestic abuse during lockdown (RailDeliveryGroup) • We need to …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 30 March 2020
• Manchester Metrolink opens Trafford Park line (MetroReport) • The longest ever individual load on rails (RogerFarnworth) • Budapest’s busy tram network (TheUrbanist) • Toronto & Vancouver look into closing roads for social distancing (Globe&Mail) …
Continue readingAir pollution & spread of COVID-19 infection (SIMA)
To date, several scientific studies focused on viruses diffusion among humans demonstrated that increased incidence of infection is related to airborne particulate matter (PM) concentration levels [1,2]. It is known that PM fractions (e.g., PM2.5 …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 23 March 2020
• Tube heating at closed City Road station to warm homes (IanVisits) • Comfort, or capitalist realism, more important on UK rails (PassengerTransport) • Barcelona Tibidabo tram reconstruction on hold (UrbanTransport) • Renfe inks $6bn …
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