Cities, states, and major companies are racing to give people incentives to switch to electric bikes for their work commute or gadding about town — experiments they hope will reduce car traffic and improve people’s …
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Finland rejects European Commission regauging proposal (RailwayGazette)
Finland’s Minister of Transport & Communications Timo Harakka has described as ‘unreasonable’ the European Commission’s proposal to require the use of 1 435 mm gauge throughout the TEN-T rail network, arguing that Finland should be regarded …
Continue readingÖBB & Siemens unveil next-gen NightJet sleeper train interior (RailTech)
ÖBB [Austria’s national railway] and Siemens Mobility presented the next generation of Nightjet sleeping and couchette cars on Tuesday. The new rolling stock will be entered into service towards the end of the summer of 2023. By …
Continue readingDfT to identify multi-modal National Freight Network (NewCivilEng)
The Department for Transport (DfT) will identify a National Freight Network (NFN) across road, rail, maritime, aviation, inland waterway and warehouse infrastructure, with a long-term goal of removing barriers to allow a seamless flow of …
Continue readingUS railroad crisis threatens supply-chain chaos, chicken cannablism (Wired)
Federal regulators and the White House have been scrambling to prevent poor service and a possible strike from jamming up a vital but often overlooked network. EARLY THIS SUMMER, farmers worried that millions of chickens in …
Continue readingCould New York’s transport funding system resolve TfL’s financial woes? (CentreForCities)
This final blog of the TfL series focuses on New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). The MTA may sound like a strange candidate: pre-pandemic ridership was already declining the system suffers frequent delays and difficulties improving its infrastructure. In 2017, the New …
Continue readingResearch on how solar storms affect railway signals (Watchers)
A project investigating the effects of solar storms on railway signals, presented this week at the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2022) by Cameron Patterson, a PhD student at Lancaster University, shows how fluctuations in space …
Continue readingLondon Underground testing new track fastenings to reduce noise (IanVisits)
London Underground is taking action to reduce the noise in tube tunnels by testing new rail track fastenings that should reduce the amount of track noise being heard inside the tube trains. Normally, Transport for …
Continue readingPrototype electric airship motor being developed for Airlander 10 (SimpleFlying)
As part of the ongoing 2022 Farnborough International Airshow, Collins Aerospace has announced this morning that it has produced an electric motor for Hybrid Air Vehicles’ Airlander 10 airship. The 500-kilowatt component, which was developed in …
Continue readingWhat can London learn from Singapore transport? (CentreForCities)
The first blogs of this TfL series explored different public transport funding models: one mostly focused on land development (Hong Kong) and another based on local income contributions (Paris). Both models allow transit authorities to …
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Long, winding road toward more circular tires (GreenBiz)
Ventures focused on circular economy advances haven’t historically represented a sexy funding category, but December and early January brought the closing of two high-profile investment infusions: $55 million for AMP Robotics, which is using artificial …
Continue readingDifferent European track gauges & workarounds (MediaRail)
The difference in gauges of Europe’s railways is one of the reasons why it is often misunderstood to mean that there are major differences between all European countries. This is obviously not the case, and …
Continue readingSolar bus kit for European market unveiled (Bus-News)
Sono Motors has unveiled its Solar Bus Kit to help public transportation companies reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The retrofit solution was unveiled at the company’s ‘Celebrate the Sun’ event in Munich, which …
Continue readingGlasgow city centre freight route safeguarded, w/ Crossrail potential (RailFreight)
Network Rail has committed to renovating a freight route through the centre of Glasgow. The infrastructure agency is to invest in a programme of improvement works set to begin on a bridge that’s key to …
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