As electric car sales soar, the industry faces a cobalt crisis. First it was lithium, now its cobalt. Electric vehicles need them for batteries, but supply issues will only worsen as demand rises. Electric vehicle …
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UK, Merseyrail Merseyrail is in the middle of an ambitious programme to introduce level boarding across its 68-station network. Starting with a comprehensive yearlong platform upgrade project in October 2018 to standardise all platforms in …
Continue readingGOBLIN re-opens Wednesday from derailment (RailFreight)
Services on the Gospel Oak to Barking line near London are expected to resume tomorrow, 19 February 2020. This line was damaged by a derailed freight wagon. The work is almost complete with all the …
Continue readingRailways as drone delivery corridors? (RailwayGazette)
USA: SkyRights Holdings is seeking to partner with Class I railways to make their alignments available for use by drone delivery companies and for ‘urban air mobility’ applications. The company said the airspace above railways …
Continue readingBIM on Northern Line Extension (RailEngineer)
London Underground’s Northern line extension, which is being built from Kennington to Battersea with a new intermediate station at Nine Elms, uses Building Information Modelling (BIM) as the basis of its design and documentation. This …
Continue readingUltracapacitors for Warsaw tram system (Railway-Tech)
Skeleton Technologies has received a contract from Medcom to supply ultracapacitor energy storage for the tram network in Warsaw, Poland. Ultracapacitors have a capacity of one million cycles and immediate charging. This allows for functions …
Continue readingUK very light rail research (RailwayGazette)
This year should see not one but two prototypes of very light rail vehicles being tested in the UK. Karol Zemek talks to Dr Nick Mallinson, Programme Manager at WMG Centre of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult at the University …
Continue readingTime for Silicon Valley to buy commuter e-buses (GreenBiz)
Every weekday, 10 commuter buses owned by biotech company Genentech join the ranks of the over 1,000 private buses that shuttle employees across the San Francisco Bay Area from near their homes to and from …
Continue readingChallenge to tackle goods congestion (Tech.London)
How can innovation help to make the way goods and services move around London safer, cleaner and more efficient? Freight and servicing underpins London’s economy. It keeps the shops and hospitals stocked and London’s businesses running. …
Continue readingMapping curb rules (SaadiqM)
It’s amazing how quickly the curb became a public infrastructure mapping and digitizing focus. And it stands to reason why would it. Ridesharing and autonomous driving companies are often cited as one of the biggest …
Continue readingAutomatic Bus Lane Enforcement solution (Siemans)
Siemens Mobility has successfully launched an Automatic Bus Lane Enforcement (ABLE) solution in New York City, representing the first-ever application of this technology to be mounted on buses. The ABLE systems are installed on M15 …
Continue readingConverting diesel buses to electric (UrbanTransport)
Since this year’s “Busworld” fair in Brussels, a new trend has now picked up speed in the bus industry. Several companies have specialized in the conversion of diesel buses to electric drive. The conversion is …
Continue readingParis eCommerce warehouses get local & chic (Wired)
Paris is classy, so it calls the distribution centers “logistics hotels”—les hôtels logistiques. In France’s capital, as in other affluent cities around the globe, cheap or free “instant deliveries” from companies like Amazon, DPD, and …
Continue readingHow Dutch Railways views train defects remotely (RailTech)
In a modern train such as the SNG (CAF Civity-platform) of the Dutch railway company NS, there are thousands of sensors that collect billions of pieces of data every day. Besides allowing trains to run …
Continue readingBerlin ending inductive-charge electric buses (UrbanTransport)
The electric bus operations on Berlin’s route 204 (Zoo – Südkreuz) were discontinued after a testing period of four years. The four Solaris Urbino 12 were equipped with inductive charging modules, to recharge the onboard …
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