The new feature will enable customers to see the number of seats available in each rail car using Google Maps. New York-based commuter rail system Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) has added a car capacity …
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Mobility does not scale like software (Freewheeling)
NETFLIX AND APPLE REVOLUTIONISED FILM AND MUSIC THROUGH SOFTWARE. THE ECONOMICS OF SOFTWARE AND THE ECONOMICS OF TRANSPORT ARE VERY DIFFERENT This is the first in two posts about “Mobility-as-a-Service”; the highly fashionable transport concept. …
Continue readingOpen data for the rail sector (Freewheeling)
The Government yesterday announced a £5m programme to provide open data for the rail sector. This is excellent. Open data liberates firms and app developers to find solutions to customers’ problems that won’t otherwise be …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 28 June 2021
• Mobile phone coverage coming to Underground tunnels (IanVisits) • Euston Station goes live with British Sign Language screens (Railway-Tech) • Barcelona accelerating link to connect tram networks (Tramways&UrbanTransit) • Grand by design: History of …
Continue readingELASTIC project stretches tram sensor tech (MetroReport)
Three trams and three tram stops in Firenze have been equipped with sensing, computation and communication capabilities as part of the Software Architecture for Extreme-ScaLe Big-Data AnalyticS in Fog CompuTIng ECosystems project to develop autonomous …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 21 June 2021
• This is not an Oxford Circus tube station upgrade (Variably) • Deciphering The Stratford Diagram (DiamondGeezer) • Can this electric hydrofoil save Venice from sinking? (Electric&Hybrid) • Bringing the Park back to Park Avenue, …
Continue readingAutomatic marshalling in Germany’s first digital goods yard (Railway-News)
DB Cargo is turning the marshalling yard München-Nord into Germany’s first digital goods yard. The goal is to make the preparation of trains largely automatic. This should increase the yard’s capacity by up to 40 …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 7 June 2021
• Transreport app greatly improves rail accessibility for disabled passengers (Railway-Tech) • Germany’s other historic suspension railway (UrbanTransport) • NYC MTA breached by hackers as cyberattacks surge (NYTimes) • Regional rail makes most sense on …
Continue readingCitymapper may need to sell its data to save itself (Wired)
When city navigation app Citymapper launched a crowdfunding campaign earlier this month, it was a resounding success. The initial £1 million target was smashed within hours and the campaign had to close after just one …
Continue readingWho’s in charge of transport app data? Not the authorities (Freewheeling)
Currently, the NHS Test & Trace app is entirely confidential. When it pings to tell you to self-isolate, no-one else will ever know – including the NHS. Do you think that you should be able …
Continue readingUpdating travel prediction modelling for 21st century (CityMonitor)
Outdated travel prediction systems are getting in the way of more efficient and equitable transportation. Urban planners Claire Fram and Richard de Cani of Arup believe there’s a solution. Assumptions regarding how people move and …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 1 March 2021
• History of British railway freight control from telegraphs to TOPS (NewcomenSoc) • Why some bike shares work & others don’t (BBC) • Graham F’s video pick: Zürich snowplow tram cab ride (ZürichTramVideos) • Locomotive …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 12 February 2021
• 100 Years of Tube Trains video by LU’s Head of Train Engineering (LTMuseumFriends) • 5 more bridges join illuminated Thames, for world’s longest artwork (IanVisits) • Fossil fuels caused 8.7m deaths globally in 2018: …
Continue readingCovenants, Easements & Wayleaves: Transport asset interface register (Part 2)
We now delve deeper into evolution of railway infrastructure knowledge that we started in Part 1 of this series. We look at some more recent examples of how underground railway infrastructure interfaces with its environment …
Continue readingPrototype 3D printed bus – video (Bloomberg)
When 3D printing first appeared, it may have seemed like a fad–something to keep garage hobbyists busy. But over the past few years, it’s become a mainstream manufacturing process. Now, an independent automaker called Local …
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