What do those Underground station codes mean? Every LU station room, lobby, corridor and stairway has small blue Station Identification Demarcation (SID) signs with white lettering in the following format level/number: Numerators 1 to 13 …
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In Motion Charging for buses: Knowledge Brief (UITP)
Battery electric trolleybuses with In Motion Charging (IMC) are highly effective technology with huge economic and environmental potential: with passenger capacity, an infinite range, uninterrupted 24/7 operation, the flexibility of off-wire service and energy-efficient emission-free …
Continue readingNetwork Rail digital headset trials successful (RailTechnology)
Network Rail and The Central Railway Systems Alliance (CRSA) have successfully finished trialling brand new digital headsets which will help to log data, paving the way for future frontline maintenance teams. The test was carried …
Continue readingCrossrail is a £21B test of virtual modeling (IEEESpectrum)
Every component in Crossrail, London’s new underground train network, will be digitally tracked via an intricate 3-D model. As the River Thames meanders eastward through London, it horseshoes around a lobe of land called the Isle of …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 9 August 2021
• The challenges of building Crossrail’s Liverpool Street Station (NewCivilEng) • Tram wires don’t ruin Vienna, they won’t ruin your city (HumanTransit) • The future of the 2nd Avenue Subway (Vanshnookenraggen) • Unreported & undetected …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 6 August 2021
• Hitachi Rail to acquire Thales ground transportation (IntlRailJ) • Appeal Justices: original Bishopsgate LTN ruling “seriously flawed” (Standard) • New National Disability Strategy released (RailTechMag) • UK’s historic Victorian bridges may be saved in …
Continue readingIndia to Finland rail alternative to Suez Canal (RailFreight)
The corridor from Russia to India was supposed to be the rail alternative to shipping via the Suez Canal. What happened to this International North South Transport Corridor (INSTC)? Is it finally complete? In this latest …
Continue readingHS2 concrete printing technology (RailwayTech)
The 3D concrete printing removes the need to develop logistical plans that are usually expensive. HS2’s London tunnels contractor Skanska Costain Strabag joint venture (SCS JV) is set to deploy on-site 3D reinforced concrete printing …
Continue readingWill Lane Rentals solve roadworks congestion? (Freewheeling)
I was talking to a regional bus company MD recently and they told me that their roadworks log typically stacks up 1,000 entries every year. Roadworks are bad for drivers but terrible for buses. Where …
Continue readingAssessment of crosswind risk on high speed trains (UIC)
In 2018, UIC published a White Paper on railway aerodynamics produced by the Railway System Department’s TTI Sector (https://www.shop-etf.com/fr/train-track-interaction-sector-aerodynamics). This field of study has been driven largely by the increasing speeds of high-speed passenger trains. …
Continue readingDfT developing a ‘Rail Data Marketplace’ (ModernRailways)
The Department for Transport is investing £5 million to start development of a “Rail Data Marketplace” (RDM) to provide the tools and frameworks to open up rail data through a new single-access platform. Due to …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 2 August 2021
• New Highway Code to cede priority to pedestrians & cyclists (Forbes) • Gravesend & Tilbury river bus day trips to London (ThamesClippers) • Silvertown Tunnel: pollution solution or environmental disaster? (AirQualityNews) • Europe leads …
Continue readingEVs difficult to convert for wheelchair users (Verge)
nIn a Super Bowl commercial that aired earlier this year, GM declared that its electric vehicles were designed for everyone. The ad closed with the image of a one-armed surfer to emphasize its point. But sometime later, that surfer …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 30 July 2021
• Bus privatisation destroyed British systems – but there is hope (Guardian) • TfL property company plans to build up to 46,000 homes (ArchitectsJ) • Leeds ponders transforming iconic Holbeck Viaduct to ped High Line …
Continue readingHS2 cuts carbon with pioneering new viaduct design (RailBusiness)
HS2 has revealed that its designers are on track to more than halve the amount of embedded carbon in one of the high speed rail project’s viaducts. The innovative ‘double composite’ approach – which involves …
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