The effect of noise differentiated track access charges (NDTAC) in Europe is under review. Since 2015, it is legally possible for infrastructure managers to include a malus or bonus in the track access charge for …
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CoolRail cuts fresh food CO2 emissions (RailwayGazette)
Food logistics company Euro Pool System has launched a thrice-weekly CoolRail dedicated temperature-controlled service to transport fresh produce between Valencia in Spain and Rotterdam in the Netherlands. This is intended to be first route of …
Continue readingDealing with rail disasters (RailwayAge)
As long as railways have existed, the threat of disaster has never been far away. But as trains have become faster and more sophisticated, the techniques, methods and systems put in place to prevent and …
Continue readingRecycled HSTs for freight/passenger use? (RailMag)
High Speed Trains could be used for mixed-use passenger and freight trains, according to Intermodality Managing Director Nick Gallop. He told RAIL that the British Rail-style operation of newspaper trains, which also carried passengers, could …
Continue readingHighlights of SmartRail Munich 2019 (SmartRailWorld)
We calculate there are currently 55 million different train fares in the UK — it’s a system of bewildering complexity and bafflement by those who use it. We want to move to a new system …
Continue readingWill 5G enable railway cyber threats? (Railway-Technology)
Huawei and China Mobile recently launched 5G at Shanghai’s Hongqiao Railway Station, which will allow passengers to download a 2GB high-definition film in less than 20 seconds. However, the move has raised concerns about how …
Continue readingThe Electric Vehicle revolution will be dirty (RadicalUrbanist)
Batteries for new cars will require a lot of new mining. Politicians love to tout incentives for electric vehicles as a great climate initiative. Replacing gas- and diesel-powered vehicles, they say, will reduce emissions and …
Continue readingAre batteries or hydrogen best for electric buses? (Governing)
As transit agencies move away from fossil fuels, they are figuring out which environmentally friendly option is right for them. Public transit agencies are often among the first customers for vehicles that run on new …
Continue readingOptimised curbs of the future (Medium)
A year ago, Uber and the City of Cincinnati announced the Cincinnati Mobility Lab, a multi-year partnership that seeks to develop innovative transportation strategies in collaboration with the City of Cincinnati and local transit and …
Continue readingDutch converting light metro line to tram (IRJ)
Thre Amstelveen hybrid tram/light metro line linking Amsterdam South and Amstelveen Westwijk closed on the night of March 2-3, 2019 for conversion to a conventional tram line under a €300m project which is due to …
Continue readingBogota’s BRT success growing pains (CityFix)
Celebrating 18 Years of TransMilenio: Growing Pains and What Lies Ahead for Bogotá’s BRT Eighteen years ago, I was deputy general manager of TransMilenio S.A., the city agency running Bogotá’s brand new bus rapid transit …
Continue readingShould transit be free? (TransitCentre)
Free transit sounds like a utopian fever dream. Imagine being able to hopscotch your city on a bus, never again needing to fumble for your ticket, seeing the dreaded “insufficient fare” message on the fare …
Continue readingElectric bus roadblocks & solutions (Curbed)
Transportation is one of the largest sources of carbon emissions, and amid the barrage of big-picture initiatives and bold pledges, one of the simplest, quickest-to-implement solutions is electrifying buses. Unlike so many other proposed climate …
Continue reading4 transport circular economy examples (Movin’On)
The traditional economy has long been a linear system of take, make, dispose. The circular economy supports production cycles that minimize waste using metrics to reduce materials and increase recycling, reuse and repair once objects …
Continue readingLiability is sleeper issue for new mobility (GreenBiz)
As new transportation methods — from autonomous vehicles to shared e-scooters to smart roadways — move us fragile humans from point A to point B, it’s not the technology that could prove to be the …
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