Innovation believed to be world-first Process cuts carbon production by up to 90% Worn-out wind turbine blades destined for the incinerator will instead be used to create carbon-friendly reinforced concrete on Britain’s new high speed …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 2 May 2022
• HS2 under fire for Euston waste removal by road flipflop (NewCivilEng) • European cities urged to ban cars to stop funding Russia war (CitiesToday) • Romford-Upminster Line: Video of the successful, unwanted railway (JagoHazzard) …
Continue readingThe benefit from legacy railway assets (RailEngineer)
Nature’s reclamation of our dismantled railway network describes a delightfully melancholy intermingling, whereby wildlife and vegetation recolonise trackbeds while structures are lost to the permeative interventions of water and tree growth. But a more malevolent …
Continue readingEV battery recycling start-up (CorporateKnights)
There’s no shortage of evidence that the electric vehicle market hit some kind of inflection point in the last year or so. But for Ajay Kochhar, the CEO and co-founder of Li-Cycle, the telling detail …
Continue readingFriday Reads – April 29 2022
• Put TfL live travel updates onto your smartphone homescreen (IanVisits) • Cycle paths to run alongside HS2 for 200 miles (AnonymousWidower) • 12 most effective ways to get cars out of cities (Guardian) • …
Continue readingEuropean hiring boom in railway data analytics roles (RailwayTechnology)
Europe was the fastest growing region for data analytics hiring among railway industry companies in the three months ending February. The number of roles in Europe made up 12.2% of total data analytics jobs – …
Continue readingFare capping: Balancing revenue & equity impacts (Nat’lAcademies)
Transit agencies in the United States are beginning to experiment with fare caps to ensure that passengers who pay for single rides do not pay more than multiple-ride passes included in their fare structure. The …
Continue readingCrossrail-style ‘heroic’ leadership no longer fit for purpose (ICE)
Construction’s traditional “heroic” style of leadership is no longer fit for purpose, according to an Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) review of major project delivery. The ICE’s second iteration of its A Systems Approach to Infrastructure …
Continue readingFreight plans for East West Main Line (RailFreight)
Freight has assumed a new and much higher priority in a bold new vision for the line currently under construction to connect the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge. Network Rail has laid out an …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – April 25 2022
• A flash sale is not a transport strategy: What Is wrong with British rail (inews) • Pollution back to illegal levels on ex-zero emissions London street (Guardian) • Portland’s Tilikum Crossing longest US non-traffic …
Continue readingUS proposing car safety rating overhaul to include pedestrians (Verge)
The US government finally realizes that cars kill people outside the vehicle, too. The Department of Transportation is proposing a major overhaul of the five-star safety rating The US government’s New Car Assessment Program (NCAP), …
Continue readingFriday Reads – April 22 2022
• London car parking permits are cheaper than bike storage (BBC) • Long before NYC’s High Line, there was the High Bridge (UntappedNYC) • Amtrak seeks control of Washington DC Union Station for expansion (Trains) …
Continue readingMunich trialing solar bus trailer for aux power (UrbanTransport)
A bus train operated by the Munich Transport Company (MVG) will in future be on regular service with solar cells on the roof. MVG officially presented the vehicle on Thursday, March 31, 2022 together with the start-up …
Continue readingTfL removes ineffective sound dampening near Morden (LocalLondon)
Transport for London is removing a noise reduction system from the Northern line track between South Wimbledon and Morden. People have expressed concerns on social media that the noise pollution will “switch back on overnight” …
Continue readingCharging option for Welsh tram-trains (ModernRailways)
Transport for Wales will have the option of adding equipment to its Stadler tram-trains to enable charging at stations, potentially permitting extensive operation in a street environment, attendees were told at the Modern Railways Fourth …
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