This week’s round-up of news from the global urban transport sector. The Dominican Republic’s Minister of the Presidency, José Ignacio Paliza, announced on May 6 that the first nine-station section of ...
IRELAND: Transport Infrastructure Ireland has launched the tendering process for the M500 contract to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the planned MetroLink automated metro line. It will ...
GERMANY: Deutsche Bahn CEO Evelyn Palla says the worst phase of the ‘unchecked ageing’ of Germany’s rail infrastructure may be over, but the path to a modern rail network remains ‘long’. More than ...
EUROPE The European Commission proposed a comprehensive package of three regulations on May 13 designed to simplify the booking of multi-leg rail journeys across Europe. The new rules aim to establish ...
AUSTRALIA: The government has announced A$1.75bn of funding for rail freight, but has stopped development of the northern section of the 1 600 km Inland Rail project. This would have allowed the ...
THAILAND: The Rail Technology Research & Development Agency is working on the development of a domestic diesel-electric multiple-unit, RTRDA Chairman Chotchai Charoenngam announced at the Asia Pacific ...
POLAND: Stadler has delivered the first nine of 75 Flirt electric multiple-units ordered by Warszawa area regional train operator Koleje Mazowieckie, with entry into service on routes from the capital ...
PORTUGAL: The European Commission has authorised Metropolitano de Lisboa to move ahead with awarding the contract for Lisboa’s Violet light rail line, but only after a Mota-Engil-led consortium ...
Although there has been relatively little change to the world’s fastest scheduled train services in the past two years, further developments are in prospect as more new lines and faster trains come on ...
Legislation limiting overtime worked by road haulage drivers comes into force next year, offering JR Freight an opportunity to win back lost traffic. Challenges include the need to adapt more of the 1 ...
No fewer than 11 private freight train operators have been granted conditional access to the Transnet network under the government’s rail reform programme. Market opening offers hope that declining ...
AUSTRALIA: Project promoter Suburban Rail Loop Authority has awarded a A$6·7bn Linewide contract package to supply rolling stock, fit out and then operate the Suburban Rail Loop East in Melbourne.
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