DB Cargo UK has successfully tested the use of 100% renewable hydrotreated vegetable oil to fuel a Class 67 diesel locomotive, and on-track trials are to follow with Class 67 and Class 66 locomotives, as …
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LA unveils plans for transport tech innovation zone (SmartCitiesDive)
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti shared plans this week for the city’s first Transportation Technology Innovation Zone in the West San Fernando Valley, designed for private companies and innovators to test tech-driven transportation solutions. The …
Continue readingElectric vehicle adoption curve: look at the data (CleanTechnica)
This report conveys 4 main points: Electric vehicles, particularly Teslas, are already more than competitive in certain market segments. The tech transitions that led to the electric vehicle (EV) market of today will continue in …
Continue readingProject to help overcome tram expansion barriers (UKTram)
A new project by UKTram aims to help promoters navigate one of the complex statutory processes associated with developing new light rail projects. Since 1993, Transport and Works Act (TWA) Orders have been required to …
Continue readingMake the vehicle body the battery to decrease weight (Wired)
Today, batteries account for a substantial portion of the size and weight of most electronics. A smartphone is mostly a lithium-ion cell with some processors stuffed around it. Drones are limited in size by the …
Continue readingLA Metro to speed up street running LRT lines (Urbanize)
With Metro on the cusp of adopting a service plan for the new Regional Connector subway in Downtown Los Angeles, several members of the agency’s Board of Directors have renewed a push to address sluggish …
Continue readingBeing a passenger railway in America is tough: But there’s data (KlumpenTown)
There’s a lot that can be learned from looking at the data. Many agencies fail to use the data they collect to really understand their system, figure out where things are going wrong, and find …
Continue readingData to assess investment choices (RailwayGazette)
Transport for London and Jacobs have developed a novel transport demand modelling tool to provide a more sophisticated response to the challenge of planning rail investment as the mobility sector enters an era of profound …
Continue readingVery light rail demonstrators prep’d for testing (RailwayGazette)
This year should see not one but two prototypes of very light rail vehicles being tested in the UK. Karol Zemek talks to Dr Nick Mallinson, Programme Manager at WMG Centre of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult at the University …
Continue reading13 More Île-de-France tram-trains ordered (RailwayGazette)
Alstom has been awarded a €70m firm order to supply Transilien SNCF with a further 13 Citadis Dualis tram-trains, funded by Île-de-France Mobilités. The order announced on November 16 has been placed under a 2007 …
Continue readingScooters are badly designed & increase inequality (FastCo)
The ideal shared electric scooter would work and look quite differently. Shared electric scooters are the vanguard of new micromobility fleets that are being deployed in cities across the United States. There are good reasons …
Continue readingUsing big data to avoid Tube crowding (BBC)
Tucked away on Transport for London’s (TfL) website is a glimpse of what the future could hold for passengers so that they can avoid using public transport at busy times. Currently it is rather slow …
Continue readingTrial enforces face coverings on London rail (GlobalRailway)
Great Northern, Southeastern, Southern and Thameslink worked with the British Transport Police to enforce face covering rules over an eight-week period, experiencing a 98.4 per cent success rate. As part of ongoing work by the rail industry to increase …
Continue readingNew rail station building at Gatwick Airport (RailBusinessD)
Building work started on Gatwick Airport’s huge new railway station concourse on Sunday, as the first train arrived at one of the platforms that has been rebuilt. The £150m project has seen many changes at …
Continue readingRebuild route alternate to Manchester Castlefield congestion (RailFreight)
An alternative proposal has been tabled to relieve congestion in Manchester’s notorious Castlefield Corridor. The short section of twin-track across the south side of the city centre is running at over capacity, and it is …
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