The Rail Delivery Group (RDG), comprising seven UK-based rail companies, has agreed to allow long distance passengers to buy cheaper advance tickets up to ten minutes before the departure of the train. The initiative will …
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The Mess of UK Smartcards (Beauty of Transport)
“ITSO [Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation] was (and is) a membership organisation set up with an apparently simple mission: to create a single, integrated transport smartcard technical standard for the whole of the UK. It wasn’t …
Continue readingIntro to regenerative braking energy recovery (Metro Rail Int’l)
Modern metro trains have regenerative braking which helps reduce their electric energy consumption. The reduction in electric energy consumption depends on the instantaneous ability of the rail section near the braking train to use or …
Continue readingFirst section of Paris Express tram-train opens (Metro Report Int’l)
The first section of the T11 Express tram-train route in Paris opened on June 30. Services on the 10⋅6 km line between Epinay-sur-Seine and Le Bourget serve seven stations. Services are operated with a fleet …
Continue readingFriday Reads – June 30, 2017
If you have something you feel we should read or include in a future list, please email us at [email protected]. Bike lanes cause more pollution myth debunked (Guardian) Best Tube photo ever? (1LondonBlog) Roman roads …
Continue readingFirst US subway platform barriers (Smart Rail World)
Philadelphia could be first US subway to install platform barriers, to reduce suicides. Read full article
Continue readingSFO 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 …
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