‘While tramways do come at a cost, the barriers to new systems are clearing…’
SYSTRA CEO Pierre Verzat offers us his insight into today’s light rail landscape, new technologies, and a few predictions for the future.
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Grand ambitions in Szczecin
A comprehensive and historic tramway network which is seeing significant reconstruction as it moves to low-floor operation; Andrew Thompson reports from north-western Poland.
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Coventry VLR: Roll on 2024
Monday 4 April was momentous for the Very Light Rail team at Coventry City Council. This was the day that the West Midlands’ ‘ask’ of GBP1.05bn (EUR1.25bn) for a package of rail, tram, bus and active travel improvements for the coming five years received formal approval under the UK Government’s City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS).
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SmartWindows into the future
Passengers in Karlsruhe can now access timetabling and disruption information… through their window. The team behind the SmartMMI project explains how it works.
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Empowering operations teams with real-time information
The team from Transit9 explores the importance of user-friendliness when implementing new technology and processes.
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A vision of the urban tram’s future
Imagine a modular autonomous tram which carried passengers during the day and freight in the evening. Such a vision was recently confirmed as the winner of the prestigious DESING+ competition organised by the University of West Bohemia…
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Always ahead of the game
Patrick Lamb, Managing Director of Severn Lamb, describes the process of creating bespoke vehicles for some of the more unusual light rail projects.
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Coming of the Tempe Streetcar
With an innovative new urban streetcar due to open on 20 May and expansion of its existing LRT system underway, Vic Simons revisits Arizona.
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A life without wires
Mott MacDonald’s Chris Tindall assesses the positives and negatives of a range of technologies promoted as an alternative to traditional LRT electrification.
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Tram-train learning
Simon Coulthard and Alex Dodds of Network Rail’s Light Rail Team describe the creation of the innovative online data resource which presents a ‘warts and all’ overview of the UK’s tram-train pilot.
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