Boston has two main train stations: South Station, and North Station. Both are terminals, about 2 km apart, each serving its own set of suburbs; as a result, over the last few decades there have …
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Automatic passenger counting testing on London buses (Metro-Report)
Transport for London started a three-month trial to test new methods of counting bus passengers on June 8. The aim is to find the most accurate real-time automatic passenger counting method. TfL believes that this …
Continue readingAustralia commits to Western Sydney Airport rail link (GlobalRailNews)
A landmark deal has been reached between the governments of Australia and New South Wales to build the first stage of the North South Rail Link. The line will connect St Marys, a suburb in …
Continue readingWhy electric vehicles not ideal solution for London (IntelligentTransport)
How failing to manage electric vehicles could inadvertently promote congestion and pollution, not reduce it… The age of owning a private car has passed its peak. Fewer Londoners own a private car than ever before, …
Continue readingTfL to cut road speeds to boost safety (MayorWatch)
Bus speeds are to be limited in order to help boost the safety of cyclists – transport bosses are preparing an “ambitious” plan to boost the safety of cyclists and pedestrians on London’s roads. Due …
Continue readingWhy London’s Slow Zones save lives & New York’s don’t (StreetsBlog)
In New York’s slow zones, speed humps are the only physical traffic calming measure. London uses a greater variety of traffic calming measures, installed more intensively. New York’s quick and cheap approach to creating “neighborhood …
Continue readingCalls for more Network Rail spending on reliability & safety (RailwayGazette)
On June 12 the Office of Rail & Road (ORR) issued its draft determination setting out its initial opinions on Network Rail’s £34bn strategic business plan for Control Period 6, which the infrastructure manager had …
Continue readingRSSB’s innovation programme update (RailEngineer)
In 2011, businessman Sir Robert McNulty was tasked by the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Office of Road and Rail (ORR) with assessing how the taxpayer could get better value for money from Great …
Continue readingThe efficiency of Heathrow (WiredUK)
The wild logistics of Heathrow Airport will instantly devour its much-needed third runway. Heathrow operates at close to 99 per cent capacity. Every day, 213,000 passengers land or depart, with a plane taking off or …
Continue readingTropical Mathematics & Optimisation for Railways workshop (UBirmingham)
The main purpose of this workshop on Monday 18th June 2018 is to bring together specialists in tropical mathematics and mathematical optimisation applied in railway engineering and to foster further collaboration between them. It is …
Continue readingDigital rail freight tracking (Railway-Technology)
Tracking cargo: the next step for rail freight operators? Heralded by many commentators as the fourth industrial revolution, digitalisation has become a buzzword for rail freight operators looking to enhance their services. One particular trend …
Continue reading3D-printed autonomous boats could reduce congestion (E&T)
Autonomous boats that offer high manoeuvrability and precise control could help to reduce congestion in cities that rely heavily on their waterways, such as Amsterdam and Bangkok. MIT researchers have developed the boats which can …
Continue readingGraphene supercapacitor DMU fleet takes shape (RailwayGazette)
The first of 13 Class 61 inter-regional diesel multiple-units for services along Malaysia’s east coast corridor has been largely completed at [Chinese rolling stock manufacturer] CRRC Zhuzhou’s plant in China. The DMUs have been designated …
Continue readingDenmark & Sweden plan international metro
City chiefs in Denmark and Sweden are looking at spending up to €4 billion on what is thought to be the world’s first international metro. Copenhagen and Malmo are investigating the construction of a 22-kilometre …
Continue readingEuropean city-airport rail survey (Passion4Transport)
As gateways to cities, airports are obviously keen to make a good impression. As is the International Air Rail Organisation (IARO), which held a conference in Paris on 11 April 2018 to discuss the expected benefits of the …
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