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SFO BART TOD Guidelines (BART)
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)’s Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Guidelines are intended to provide greater clarity around BART’s expectations for TOD, both on its property and within the larger station area. There are many …
Continue readingSweden first to trial microchip ticket (Global Rail News)
Sweden’s national passenger rail operator SJ believes it is the first train operator in the world to trial a microchip implant ticket on its services. Passengers signed up to the company’s loyalty scheme, SJ Prio, …
Continue readingTraffic management systems new research (Rail Technology)
Two crucial pieces of research that outline how technology will transform the next generation of traffic management systems (TMS) have today been released by the RSSB. The projects, which are part of the Future Traffic …
Continue readingFriday Reads – June 23, 2017
If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. Typographical quirks on the Tube (Look Up London) America’s Political Economy: Infrastructure and Chicago’s 75th …
Continue readingCapacitor on board electricity storage (Railway Gazette)
Malaysia orders multiple-units with graphene capacitor energy storage A €180m contract for 22 multiple-units of two types was signed by Malaysia’s Ministry of Transport, national operator KTMB and CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive on April 11. The …
Continue readingMunich Mayor considers diesel ban (E&T)
Hoping to reduce the “shocking” levels of nitrogen oxides in the city, the mayor of Munich is hoping to implement a ban on diesel vehicles. This would make Munich the first German city to introduce …
Continue readingLondon-Blackpool new open access service delayed (Global Rail News)
Arriva-owned open access operator Alliance Rail Holdings has confirmed it will be unable to begin its new Blackpool-London Euston service next year as planned. The company, which received approval from the Office of Rail and …
Continue readingDB not to run to London? (Railway Gazette)
Deutsche Bahn (DB) has effectively deferred its high-profile plan to run direct high speed trains between Germany and London. Reports in the French press last week had quoted Birgit Bohle, Managing Director of DB Fernverkehr, …
Continue readingFriday Reads – June 16, 2017
If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. Cooling the Tube (Ian Visits) Dissatisfied Southeastern passengers that bid for the railway franchise (BBC …
Continue readingJoint research lab for active rail monitoring (SurferLab)
SurferLab is built around a core theme which concerns embedding artificial intelligence based processing capabilities in complex mobile systems (trains, cars, planes, trucks…) to implement and optimize various control, monitoring and diagnosis (health monitoring) functions. …
Continue readingBig Data to avoid SPADs (Rail Technology Mag)
“New tool uses ‘incontrovertibly accurate’ big data algorithm to avert SPADs – A new software has used big data involving more than a hundred million incidences of trains approaching signals on the UK rail network …
Continue readingUsing Passenger Phones to Inspect Track (Rail Innovation Group)
Staff at the University of Birmingham have created a phone app that for passengers to measure and record the comfort of the journey. Research at the University of Birmingham has indicated that passengers will be able to …
Continue readingTfL picks electric taxi fast charger suppliers (Guardian, TfL)
From 1 January 2018, all new black cabs will have to be battery-powered electric models by law as part of TfL’s effort to reduce toxic pollution from diesel engines. Transport for London is spending £18m …
Continue readingGood vibrations (Rail Engineer)
“Wheelsets and their axle journal bearings are expensive ‘consumables’ on rail vehicles. Employing preventative maintenance regimes that make use of time or mileage drivers for the replacement for items that aren’t necessarily broken is wasteful …
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