Most of us are already sharing our location with private corporations almost every day. Could we use that data for good — or do we need to fight back against rider surveillance? Imagine a world …
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Innovation in world’s largest tram network (RailExpress)
Melbourne’s iconic tram network operates across 250km of double track. Xavier Leal from Keolis Downer shares Yarra Trams’ latest innovation strategy that is digitising the network’s 5,000 daily services. Operations throughout the urban tram network …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 4 May 2020
• Improving air quality at railway stations to fight Covid (RailwayTech) • London’s street parking takes the space of 10 Hyde Parks (CityMetric) • NR & Festival of Architecture reveal Sitting Pretty designs (RailBusinessDaily) • …
Continue readingThe most efficient single track LRT line in N America (RT&S)
Christof Spieler, author of “Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit,” revealed his latest transit mapping on his Twitter page on Ottawa’s Trillium Line. Spieler calls the Trillium Line the most frequent commuter …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 1 May 2020
• Expanding sidewalks does not spread COVID (StreetsBlog) • Vilnius Lithuania to be turned into vast open-air café (Guardian) • Bailed out Air France not to compete with TGV (BusinessTraveller) • Strategic design needed for …
Continue readingNew Russian EMU has sanitising HVAC system (Railway-News)
Ivolga EMUs, manufactured by TVZ (part of Transmashholding) for the Russian-gauge market, feature an HVAC system with an air-sanitising system. The HVAC system is equipped with UV lamps so that the passing air is treated …
Continue readingSteam is an efficient rolling stock disinfectant (RailTech)
In the earliest days of railways, steam was energy for the first locomotives. Now, the railway and public transport operators are deeply focused on disinfection its rolling stock to provide safe journeys for their customers. …
Continue readingElectric vehicle battery advances (IEEESpectrum)
Companies report a rush of electric vehicle battery advances in anodes, cathodes, and electrolytes suggest tomorrow’s EV power train may be quite different from today’s. Electric vehicles have recently boasted impressive growth rates, more than doubling …
Continue readingReservation app to prevent public transport crowds (NLTimes)
The [Netherlands] government is considering a reservation app to prevent buses, trains and subways from becoming too crowded once the number of travelers and commuters start to pick up again. The app must help ensure …
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 readingEMU trailers could be inserted Into Turbo DMUs (AnonWidower)
The May 2020 Edition of Modern Railways has an article entitled West Of England Improvements in GWR Deal. GWR‘s Turbo DMUs are: Class 165 trains, of which there are fifteen three-car trains and twenty two-car trains. …
Continue readingThe transport & urban issues webinar list (OverheadWire)
With all these conferences and sessions taking their talents online I thought it might be a good idea to list them. [Some are free, some charge a fee] If you have any ideas send them in …
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 readingUK’s first electric (charging) avenue (SmartCitiesWorld)
Siemens has worked with ubitricity and Westminster City Council to convert 24 lampposts into EV charge points using existing city infrastructure. Siemens has unveiled the UK’s first street that has been fully converted for charging …
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