LG Display announced that Korea’s newly launched Great Train eXpress (GTX) subway service has installed the company’s 55″ transparent OLED displays in the cabin windows. This is the first subway service in Korea to install …
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Monday’s Friday Reads – 5 August 2024
• Design Language Basics for TfL’s Digital Displays (TfL Blog) • Making the Multi-Colour London Transport Museum roundel: Video (Hidden London Hangouts) • So What’s the fare? A Short History of Cab Fares in London …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 6 May 2024
• Touring the Rebuilding Old Street Station: Video (Hidden London Hangouts) • The Streets with no Game – they bore & stress pedestrians (Aeon) • Incorporating Art, Wayfinding, & Culture in Urban Rail Stations: Video …
Continue readingBritish Steel wins contract to provide materials for Egypt’s Green Line freight railway (E+T)
British Steel has won a contract to supply around 9,500 tonnes of rail track for Egypt’s Green Line, which will be produced in Scunthorpe. Once complete, the Green Line will be the country’s first fully …
Continue readingParis Metro stations equipped with accessible real-time information panels (IntelligentTransport)
With features such as enlarged fonts, enhanced colour contrasts and improved audio announcements, the real-time information panels introduced by Île-de-France Mobilités and RATP in Paris metro stations will cater to diverse passenger needs. Île-de-France Mobilités …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 12 January 2024
• Boeing 737 MAX Incident a By-Product of Its Financial Mindset (American Prospect) • How Oulu became the winter cycling capital of the world (BBC) • TFL considering installing fake steering wheels at front of …
Continue readingNow this is how to design disruption workaround info & graphics (PrintMag)
New Standards for New York’s Underground The MTA (New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority), through its advertising agency, commissioned Waterhouse Cifuentes Design to develop a system to inform its ridership of Planned Work diversions for the subway. The …
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