• History of Holborn Viaduct (HydeParkNow) • London 1933 Underground, Power and Substations Diagram (TransitMaps) • Repurposed Parisien transport infrastructure (FabricOfParis) • New Berlin airport & rail link to open, finally, October 2020 (IntlRailJ) • …
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Friday Reads – 20 December 2019
• How the Tube beat the New York subway (Guardian) • Overground station mosaic roundels a hit (TransportXtra) • Commercial reuses of disused Paris transport infra (FabricOfParis) • Is East Side Access really going to …
Continue readingHyundai building Art Deco hydrogen truck (Trucks)
Hyundai Motor Co. has an ambitious plan to wean the global trucking industry from fossil fuels by creating green commercial trucks with the same power and range as their diesel counterparts. The South Korean automaker …
Continue readingNorwegian Railways integrates trains, buses, & taxis (RailTech)
Norwegian railway operator Vy (former NSB) will integrate its train connections with taxis across the country. Many taxi services will be available in the Vy mobile application from 1 July 2020. Recently, the company’s app …
Continue readingIndustry & gaming train sims becoming closer (Railway-Tech)
Simulation games bring hobbyists closer than ever to the industries they are passionate about. What goes into simulating trains, tracks and signalling systems with the detail that the keenest players expect, and how are sim …
Continue readingUK’s affordable, freight for all enterprise trains (RailFreight)
Could a version of the nineteenth-century local goods train be the answer to some very twenty-first century problems? Climate change, congestion charging, low-emissions zones, and HGV driver shortages may not have been issues in Victorian …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 2 December 2019
• Introducing the Central London Walking Network (LondonLivingStreets) • Sheffield’s tram-train a success so far (Wired) • Why Paris wants to tax Amazon deliveries (CityLab) • Redesign cities with women in mind (Globe&Mail) • Augmented …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 29 November 2019
• TfL’s cancelled roundel (IanVisits) • London recent aerial photography (Colossal) • UK railways mostly nationalised – by other countries (LondonEconomic) • Medieval trade routes interactive map (MerchantMachine) • Copenhagen increasing parking costs 100 times …
Continue readingBeer train to ship to beer lovers worldwide (RailFreight)
From now on, Stella Artois beers on the way to the port of Antwerp are delivered to their export gate by train. The Belgian beer manufacterer AB InBev has announced a major shift to rail …
Continue readingFlat-rate mobility pilot starts in Augsburg (IntelTransport)
For a fixed monthly fee, residents of Augsburg will have access to buses, trains, rental bikes and car sharing within the city. Augsburg has the first German city to introduce a mobility flat rate. For a …
Continue readingBrits develop autonomous wheel control (IntlRailJ)
SET, Britain, together with Vivarail, and Loughborough and Huddersfield universities, have developed an autonomous wheel control system called Acti-Wheel which they believe could revolutionise wheelset design. Acti-Wheel uses artificial intelligence to guide the train along the …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 25 November 2019
• Westminster Tube station gets Africa themed roundels (IanVisits) • How Barcelona replaced car domination with SuperBlocks (Vox) • Are train companies doing enough to help disabled passengers? (Which?) • The importance of station second …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 22 November 2019
• Map of tunnel boring machines under the Thames (IanVisits) • Is surge pricing a fair way to manage demand? (BBC) • Rising Paris Métro ridership is driving new solutions (CityLab) • NYC is spending …
Continue readingChicago sees health costs savings from electric bus (InsideClimateNews)
Cities are still working through early challenges, but they see health and climate benefits ahead. In Chicago, two buses save the city $24,000 a year in fuel costs. Demand for e-buses is outpacing manufacturers’ ability …
Continue readingSegmental lining cracking under investigation (TunnelTalk)
Cracks have appeared in a section of segmental lining that had been reinforced with synthetic fibres on an extension of the Izmir Metro in Turkey. According to local news reports, the segments were reinforced with …
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