However, the current transport capacity of the CRE still lags behind that of sea and air transportation. At present, the CRE is facing two major, technical and economical, obstacles. First of all, the rail gauges of pan-Eurasian rail network have different standards (seeFig. 3.5), so in ...
Los Angeles Football Club, a member of the Major League Soccer (MLS), opened its new 22,000-seat capacity soccer stadium located in California, US in April 2018. Barcelona Metro and Light Rail Lines – Public Transport Network In May 1999 a new plan for metro and light rail lines in ...
The city presently has an eclectic mix of rail transit, with lines totaling 119 km. This article reviews the major rail network expansion that will add a further 68 km to the system and provide the...
Network Rail’s delivery arm for renewals and projects, Infrastructure Projects (IP) organises itself into four regional areas – Scotland North East, Central, Southern and Western and Wales, and national programmes for Signalling, Track and the pan regional Northern Programme. The tender and procur...
Beneath the noise generated each time -and there are still too many times -something goes wrong, the railway serving the West Midlands has, steadily, been taking major strides forward. Birmingham is at the heart of Britain's rail system. It is the centre of a busy, extensive network of ...
This major project was to involve building new routes and taking over under-used former heavy rail lines, to develop a system which served the commuter population of surrounding satellite towns. However, the large number of authorities and interest groups meant that decision making was protracted, ...
4.Harbin–Hong Kong (Macau) Passageway, a high-speed rail links Harbin in Heilongjiang Province and other major inland cities with Hong Kong and Macau via Beijing. It runs through cities of Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang, Beijing, Shijiangzhuang, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and...
Rail significant accidents 40 12 2 18 21 18 18 Ship severe accidents 170 82 9 126 157 126 126 Reliability Road mln vehicle lost hours 132.0 100.0 42.8 42.8 68.9 38.3 61.6 Rail travelers’ punctuality 80.0 93.0 95.7 95.7 93.0 97.5 91.9 Ship Norm Time Passage Sluices 90 85 88 88 80 67...
With a new plan now in place to deliver Crossrail, Hedley Ayres, National Audit Office manager, major projects and programmes, takes a look at ho... more > Preparing the industry to deliver trains for the future The move to decarbonise the rail network involves shifting to cleaner modes...
China's high-speed rail network is planned with a huge framework known as the "eight vertical and eight horizontal" railway network. It consists of eight north-south and eight east-west high-speed railway lines connecting all major cities across the country. Imagine China as a vast Go board...