Tallinn is relying on a network of volunteers to map over a thousand public transport stops to improve accessibility across the Estonian capital. The city is asking participants to use the Crowdsorsa mobile game app …
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Yes, AI really can be used to tackle potholes, efficiently (JamesO’Malley)
… Potholes vs AI The way that your local authority currently maintains the roads is probably pretty torturous. Typically, the council employs a team of highway safety inspectors, whose job it is to go out …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 17 January 2025
• Robotaxis are coming: London must be prepared (OnLondon) • Washington DC Metro: The Great Society Subway: Podcast (JourneyWithPurpose) • Mumbai’s first underground Metro corridor, Aqua Line 3, opening in phases (MagicBricks) • Elon Musk …
Continue readingBlocking the Bus Lane? Cities Are Using AI To Find & Fine You (NextCity)
Transit agencies in America’s biggest cities are working with startup Hayden AI to catch drivers blocking the bus by deploying cameras on buses. Think you can pull over and park in a bus lane to …
Continue readingMonday’s Friday Reads – 18 November 2024
• The inside story of the Transport for London cyberattack (London Centric) • Green signal given for first UK co-operatively owned railway service (The Guardian) • Caltrain’s electrification project is paying off big-time (SFGate) • …
Continue readingThe Risks of Self-Fulfilling Traffic Forecasts (Planetizen)
Transportation agencies continue to apply predict-and-provide planning which simply extrapolates past trends to predict future needs. It’s time to apply decide-and-provide planning to better achieve community goals. The U.S. Department of Transportation just released its …
Continue readingTrojan cars: Why the US fears Chinese cyberattacks on electric vehicles (France24)
The White House announced a plan this week to ban the sale or import of connected vehicles containing “specific pieces of hardware and software” that could be made in China or Russia, citing national security fears. While the …
Continue readingResults from the 2023 National Travel Survey analysed (Mobility Matters)
A few weeks back, the latest results from the National Travel Survey for 2023 were released by the Department for Transport. Being the closest thing that transport statistics in the UK has to a bible, it caused …
Continue readingUtilisation of trams for urban freight transport & logistics (UrbanTransport)
As part of the LogIKTram research project, it was determined how future urban freight transport can be shifted by tram or regional train. At the final event of the LogIKTram research project in Karlsruhe in …
Continue readingNetwork Rail AI projects tackle ‘ever changing’ risks to trains & passengers (IMechE)
Trains face countless risks across the almost 16,000km of track in Great Britain. From misuse of level crossings to overhanging trees, Network Rail works with partners across the network to protect passengers from a wide …
Continue readingSpatial impacts of a massive rail disinvestment program: The Beeching Axe (JUrbanEconomics)
This paper investigates the reversibility of the effects of transport infrastructure investments, based on a programme that removed much of the rail network in Britain during the mid-20th century. We find that a 10% loss …
Continue readingUS urban roadways take 25% of urbanized land worth $4.1 Trillion (Nat’lBureauEconomicResearch)
We predict the amount, share, and value of land dedicated to roadways within and across 316 US Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Despite the amount and value of land dedicated to roadway, our study provides the …
Continue readingFriday Reads – 16 August 2024
• The long way round (Jonn Elledge) • London Circles Tube Map updated (Tube Map Central) • Train-Time Travel (Straphanger) • Chicago’s Embattled Transit System Faces a High-Profile Test with Massive Convention (CityLab) • Why …
Continue readingAnd then there was AI: Deutsche Bahn’s experience (RailEngineer)
Rail Engineer Issue 136 described many operators using Remote Condition Monitoring (RCM) and a few pioneers making baby steps in Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM). Roll forward to 2023, and there was a consensus that RCM has …
Continue readingRail’s Market Share against Air: A Global Review (HotRails)
It has long been recognised – at least as far back as 1988, during planning for the Channel Tunnel – that the market share achieved by a rail service against an airline serving the same …
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