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Chinese partners unveil hybrid high-floor LRV
New 30m two-car LRV is powered by hydrogen fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries and promises a range of 100km.
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Cluj-Napoca metro contracts awarded
Turkish-French consortium to build the 21km metro line in Romania’s fourth-largest city. First phase is due to open in 2026 to meet EU funding conditions.
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Innsbruck line 5 extended to Rum
Latest expansion of Innsbruck’s tramway adds 1.2km to reach a new inter-modal transfer hub at Rum.
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Budapest adds another 31 CAF low-floor trams
Latest option marks the final tranche of a framework that will see the Hungarian capital pay ‘close to 2014 prices’, and follows an order for 20 trams in October 2022.
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Moscow completes ‘Big Circle Line’ metro
Opening of the full 70km line 11 on 1 March completes the world’s longest circular metro line.
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Stadler delivers the first new Tyne and Wear Metro train
The first of the new Class 555 trains for the Tyne & Wear Metro arrived at the system’s rebuilt Gosforth depot on 28 February, in what Nexus calls a “landmark moment”.
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Rome pushes forward with tramway expansion
Technical and economic studies for the 8.3km Termini – Vaticano – Aurelio tramway have been approved, with tenders expected to be issued shortly.
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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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The Southampton Tram Project: Over 40 years in the making
Until 2020, this Southampton group was working largely away from public gaze, painstakingly restoring local trams with minimal funding and manpower. Martin Petch relates progress.
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Where the UK went wrong
Tony Young examines the many and complex reasons why the UK doesn’t have more second-generation tramways when so many were promised.
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Addressing the climate crisis
The issues surrounding sustainable transport infrastructure design have never been as important as cities face increasing instances of extreme weather events. TAUT looks at the some of the resilience measures being implemented for new light rail systems around the world.
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Forchbahn: Fit for the future
An ambitious programme to renovate the Swiss Forchbahn to increase capacity and make it fully-accessible will soon be underway. Andrew Thompson explores the plans in detail.
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Is ‘free’ transit really free?
Morgan Lyons explores the debates around fare-free travel as they grow in popularity – and urgency.
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World Metro & Light Rail Congress / Rail Live Congress
Innovation. Technology. Performance.
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Held just once every three years, APTA EXPO is the world’s largest showcase of technology, products, and services related to the public transportation industry.
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A number of cities are to host tempting events for those interested in heritage tramway operations this year; among them Antwerp, the Rittnerbahn in Italy, and Zürich.
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SmartRail Europe
SmartRail Europe – 5-6 April 2017, Amsterdam – is the annual show for railway infrastructure managers, train operating companies, system and data integrators and technology suppliers to create the digital railway of the future.
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LightRail 2017 (Part of the World Metrorail Congress)
Innovation. Technology. Performance. For the world’s light rail & tram community and their partners.
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Get ready for the UITP Summit 2017, Montreal
On 15-17 May 2017 the international public transport community will come together in Montréal for the Global Public Transport Summit, the not-to-miss rendezvous for urban transport professionals.
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Global Light Rail Awards 2016
New UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport Paul Maynard told the Global Light Rail Awards on 5 October “you definitely have a supporter here today”.
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