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Tactile path
JAPAN’S Railway Technical Research Institute has carried out testing with blind passengers to develop a national standard for the installation of tactile paving which provides a warning of platform edges. In an effort to reduce the risk of passengers falling from platforms, researchers have identified the optimal width of tactile ...
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‘Reasonable’ performance
HOLLAND Railconsult Holding described its performance in 2004 as ’extremely reasonable’. Turnover in the Netherlands was better than expected, but profits of €3m were slightly down on 2004, and international results were ’somewhat less positive than had been hoped.’Operating income for the year was €134m, down from €136m in 2003. ...
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Pointers
Bolivia’s Mines & Metallurgy Ministry says that bids will be called this year for construction of a 100 km rail link between iron ore deposits at Mutún and a proposed port at Puerto Busch on the Paraguay River. Argentinian competition authority CNDC is considering the proposed acquisition by Camargo Corrêa ...
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A small problem solved
ATJUST 128 cm tall, Melbourne resident Bruce ’Giant’ Chaplin has a problem when boarding the city’s trams; he can’t reach the coin slots on ticket machines. While he can usually find a fellow passenger to drop his coins in the slot for him, this isn’t always possible. On a recent ...
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Publications
Urban Transit: Operations, Planning & Economics By Vukan R Vuchic 'Transportation, being one of the basic functions in urbanised areas, influences the form of cities and their liveability', says Prof Vukan Vuchic in his introduction. Experience has shown that public transport contributes 'greatly to the quality of life.' ...
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Reform on track
PLANS are on course for conversion of Pakistan Railways to a corporation at the end of July, Railways Minister Mian Shamim Haider announced on June 20.The minister said the plans were awaiting approval by the federal cabinet. The Railways Board is to be abolished and a new Chief Executive will ...
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Service subsidiaries
LEIPZIG Transport and Siemens have combined their Leipziger Fahrzeugservice-Betriebe and Leipziger Infrastruktur Betriebe subsidiaries to form IFTEC GmbH.IFTEC provides track and rolling stock maintenance and consulting, with Leipzig Transport accounting for 89% of its business. ’Collaboration with private companies has always been a component of LVB’s corporate strategy’, said Chairman ...
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Sheltam stake
SOUTH African logistics firm Grindrod has acquired a 50% stake in Sheltam Locomotive & Railway Services, it announced on May 12. Port Elizabeth-based Sheltam owns a fleet of locos and an air charter business.Grindrod’s Landfreight Director Laurence Stuart-Hill said ’the acquisition of a 50% stake in Sheltam not only provided ...
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Sidetrack
A small problem solvedATJUST 128 cm tall, Melbourne resident Bruce ’Giant’ Chaplin has a problem when boarding the city’s trams; he can’t reach the coin slots on ticket machines. While he can usually find a fellow passenger to drop his coins in the slot for him, this isn’t always possible. ...
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On May 22 Japanese Land, Infrastructure & Transport Minister Kazuo Kitagawa, and JR Hokkaido Chairman Shinichi Sakamoto participated in ceremonies at Shin-Hakodate to mark the start of work on the first phase of the Hokkaido Shinkansen, which was approved in December 2004. The government is covering two-thirds of the ´470bn ...
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NewsSteel boom will drive MRS Logística past the 100 million tonne level
Several of Brazil's freight railway concessionaires have flourished since the federal railway network was broken up in 1996. John Kolodziejski looks at progress at two of them
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1000 cars in Bangkok package
FORMAL proposals for a package of new metro lines and extensions in Bangkok totalling 94 km were submitted to the Thai government by the Mass Rapid Transit Authority on May 12.In January MRTA was authorised to begin design for two new lines and two extensions, which are expected to be ...
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Broad gauge ICE3 in sight
RUSSIAN Railways continues to prepare the ground for signing a detailed contract with Siemens for supply of high speed trains (RG 2.05 p61), with RZD President Gennady Fadeyev announcing on May 5 in Moscow that the German company will assemble the trains in Russia. Technology transfer looks set to be ...
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Open access sorted
WHEN THE state government of Victoria leased most of V/Line’s network outside the Melbourne commuter zone to Freight Australia in 1999, the issue of access by competing operators was ignored. As Minister for Transport Peter Batchelor pointed out last month when introducing his Rail Corporations (Amendment) Bill, ’no third-party operator ...
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EWS acquires bogie portfolio
BRITISH rail freight operator English Welsh &Scottish Railway announced on April 28 that it had acquired the assets of wagon suspension developer and supplier Probotec Ltd. The Cardiff-based company had been placed in administration earlier in the month.Formerly known as Powell Duffryn Rail, Probotec has 40 staff and offices in ...
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Tracking machines across borders
DANISH infrastructure manager Banedanmark has ordered tracking equipment to monitor the location and utilisation of around 700 wagons and maintenance machines.The DKr4m contract for GSM-GPS tracking technology was won by Pivotex Oy, which will begin supplying its PivoTrack package this month. PivoTrack will work across national boundaries regardless of the ...
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Heavy haul railways address a booming market
As the world's experts in heavy haul technology gather in Rio de Janeiro for the 8th IHHA Conference on June 14-16, China's insatiable demand for iron and steel is driving the pace of development on the world's heavy haul railways. Operators of iron ore lines on three continents are moving ...
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Ministers agree high speed timetable
MEETING in Lisboa on May 4, Spanish Development Minister Magdalena Álvarez and Portuguese Minister of Public Works, Transport & Communications Mario Lino confirmed the timetable for completing high speed links between the two countries. A Vigo - Porto route would open in 2009, followed by a Lisboa - Madrid route ...
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Are there better times ahead?
INTRO: The prospects for Argentina’s freight operators are set to brighten once the protracted process of renegotiating their concession contracts comes to an end, but government funding will be needed for infrastructure investment if rail is to meet its full potential. Enrique Garibotto reportsBY THE END of the 1980s the ...