• That MIT study about the subway spreading COVID is crap (StreetsBlog) • Milan’s big plan to prevent post crisis traffic pollution (Guardian) • Paris to create 650km of cycleways for post-lockdown (Forbes) • Airlines …
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Air pollution filters protect NHS & patients from COVID (AirQualityNews)
Healthcare transport provider, the HATS Group (HATS), is installing clean air technology in 100 vehicles used to transport patients to help reduce exposure to coronavirus. AirLabs, which is supplying its ‘AirBubbl’ in-vehicle air filters to …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 20 April 2020
This edition has been compiled by guest editor Rosie Greene: • Tube train door sounds transcribed (ClassicFM) • London Transport moquette designs in pictures (Guardian) • London Overground offers model for UK rail overhaul (FT-£) …
Continue readingDecarbonising our railways (UKRRIN)
Where are we and what do we need to do next? Climate change increasingly dominates our news agenda – and for the rail industry, there is much discussion about how we best decarbonise the network. …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 17 April 2020
• The Social Distancing Machine for pedestrians (PriceTags) • New Zealand first to fund pop-up bike lanes & widened sidewalks (Forbes) • Climate Safe Streets: life without cars in 10 years (TransportXtra) • Rail station …
Continue readingGetting electrification done: Net Zero (RailEngineer)
On 24 June 2019, the House of Commons unanimously passed an amendment to the Climate Change Act that committed the UK to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Previously, the target had been 80 per cent …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 10 April 2020
• Survey of city actions to support walking, cycling during COVID (PedBikeInfo) • Coronavirus reveals transit’s true mission (CityLab) • Free rail travel to those fleeing domestic abuse during lockdown (RailDeliveryGroup) • We need to …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 30 March 2020
• Manchester Metrolink opens Trafford Park line (MetroReport) • The longest ever individual load on rails (RogerFarnworth) • Budapest’s busy tram network (TheUrbanist) • Toronto & Vancouver look into closing roads for social distancing (Globe&Mail) …
Continue readingAir pollution & spread of COVID-19 infection (SIMA)
To date, several scientific studies focused on viruses diffusion among humans demonstrated that increased incidence of infection is related to airborne particulate matter (PM) concentration levels [1,2]. It is known that PM fractions (e.g., PM2.5 …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 23 March 2020
• Tube heating at closed City Road station to warm homes (IanVisits) • Comfort, or capitalist realism, more important on UK rails (PassengerTransport) • Barcelona Tibidabo tram reconstruction on hold (UrbanTransport) • Renfe inks $6bn …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 9 March 2020
• Flying Scotswoman service celebrates Int’l Women’s Day (BelfastTelegraph) • New ‘rail to refuge’ free travel to women fleeing domestic abuse (RailBusinessDaily) • Network Rail’s new focus on architecture & design – Part 1 (BeautyOfTransport) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 6 March 2020
• Tube dust: Union demands tests into ‘toxic’ particles (BBC) • Nancy converting guided bus into a modern tramway (UrbanTransport) • Stockholm’s stunning subterranean subway stations (DavidAltrath) • Ceneri Alps Base Tunnel to open in …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 2 March 2020
• The telphers of Manchester Victoria (RogerFarnworth) • Plan to reopen Maid Marian passenger line (NottinghamPost) • Car culture has a toxic masculinity problem (Streetsblog) • NYC using its fleets to fight air pollution (GreenBiz) …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 28 February 2020
• Restoration of Crystal Palace subway moves forward (IanVisits) • Exposure to ultra fine particles linked to heart attacks (AirQualityNews) • The disappearing sound in airports: Solari boards (BBC) • Animated map of US Growth …
Continue readingMovin’On 2019: How sustainable is your city’s mobility?
In May 2019, Britain reached a major climate combating milestone when it was coal plant power generation free for the first time since the Industrial Revolution. Nonetheless, there is still much work to be done, …
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