SAUDI ARABIA: Testing company TÜV Rheinland has handed over the Independent Competent Person certificate for Saudi Railway Co’s ETCS Level 2 deployment on the North–South

A unique opportunity exists for infrastructure investment in Australia as transport as we know it faces disruption from autonomous vehicles. Disruption is not a dirty

Deutsche Bahn has announced it is upgrading its entire InterCity fleet with free wifi Starting in summer 2019, Deutsche Bahn will start upgrading its Intercity

The UK’s Network Rail has unveiled plans to invest more than £42bn to upgrade trains, tracks and stations to boost reliability and improve rail performance

By far the longest and most extensively used in the world, China’s vast high-speed network is set to grow even larger in the near future.

NETHERLANDS: ProRail, Arriva and Stadler have started a week-long trial of automatic train operation on the Groningen – Zuidhorn line in the north of the

The money will be used to upgrade nearly 1,500km of track, along with 650 train stations and 300 bridges. German newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported

In Europe and Asia, there are numerous high-speed rail (HSR) lines. For 2015, the U.S. High Speed Rail Association reported that there were 29,792 km

French companies will build a new railway in Kenya and operate a motorway there following a visit by President Emmanuel Macron aimed at boosting France’s

INDIA: Tenders for design, construction and commissioning of civil engineering works on around half of the planned Mumbai – Ahmedabad high speed line were invited

SAR’s 2,400-km network has become the longest single line, ETCS Level 2 signalled, mixed freight and passenger service rail network in the world.  TUV Rheinland

A joint venture (JV) of China State Construction Engineering Corporation Middle East (CSCEC ME) and South Korea’s SK Engineering and Construction (SK E&C) has been awarded a

The developers of the world’s longest undersea railway tunnel, which once completed will connect the Finnish and Estonian capitals, have reached an agreement on 15

The Texas high-speed train project has been named among the top global infrastructure projects by infrastructure advocacy group CG/LA in its 2019 Strategic 100 Global

Botswana Railways has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with its Namibian Counterpart state owned TransNamib to facilitate the joint development of the Trans-Kalahari railway which will cost US $9.5bn. TransNamib Corporate

The high-speed Haramain is operating at near-full capacity, while the North-South line is being expanded Riyadh’s Metro is almost complete, and more track is being

GCC Railway will connect the Gulf via a highly efficient, interoperable network. Senior railway expert, Kostas Tzanakakis, discusses the key factors set to make the

THE Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) agreed a new policy containing five commitments to develop rail transport in the next five years

EUROPE: A ‘rail motorway’ service carrying unaccompanied lorry trailers 1 219 km between Barcelona and Luxembourg was launched on February 19. Augmenting the existing Le Boulou –

By reinforcing security whilst improving the flow of travellers at borders, passenger satisfaction will be improved. By reinforcing security whilst improving the flow of travellers

The first meeting on high-level transport dialogue between Azerbaijan and the EU was held in Baku on February 19. Addressing the meeting, Minister of Transport,

RUSSIA: Tram builder PK Transportnye Systemy is working with Cognitive Technologies to develop a prototype autonomous tram. A Vityaz-M vehicle is being fitted with 10

Allianz pro Schiene and Automobil-Club Verkehr (ACV) produced a comparison between different modes of transport. In it, it found that passengers in Germany who choose rail

Tunisia has received a USD 1.7 million grant to run a feasibility study into the construction of a railway linking Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia across

(On the photo: King Felipe VI of Spain (L) and King Mohammed VI of Morocco (R) attend the signing of bilateral agreements at the Agdal Royal

Dr. Jang Ping Thia, Principal Economist in the Strategy, Policy and Budget Department of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), interview on “Intelligent Transport” about

UK: Plans for a reorganisation designed to ‘put passengers and freight users first’ and address concerns about poor operating performance on the increasingly busy network

After decades of languishing development and stagnated projects, true high-speed rail in the US could be just around the corner. Japan has the Shinkansen. France

AMMAN — The Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) and the Saudi-Jordanian Investment Fund (SJIF) on Sunday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish

JAKARTA, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) — Half of the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR) project is targeted to be built this year, an executive of HSR Indonesian

In November 2018, Italian state-owned railway operator Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane inaugurated the world’s first high-speed rail service dedicated to freight, which will run between

3D PRINTING: Rolling stock leasing company Angel Trains, engineering consultancy ESG Rail and 3D printing technology company Stratasys have collaborated to use additive manufacturing to

To counter China’s rapidly slowing economic growth, the Chinese government has returned to the policy playbook that worked well in the past: spending money on

PARIS (Reuters) – France pressed Rome on Friday to make swift decisions on an Alpine rail tunnel, one of Europe’s most ambitious engineering projects that

Reflecting on the recent difficult times for Britain’s railways, Darren Shirley, Chief Executive of Campaign for Better Transport, explores the opportunities that could lead from

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) in Singapore has finalised the alignment and station locations for the first phase of the Cross Island Line (CRL). To be

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to provide technical assistance to support the improvement of railways in the Central Asian region. ADB has approved

Indian Railways has announced plans to recruit around 230,000 people for various positions over the next two years. In a statement, the Union Ministry of Railways

ASIA: The Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail and the United Nations Economic & Social Commission for Asia & the Pacific have signed a

Director General and Chairman of the Board of Russian Railways (RZD), Oleg Belozyorov, and Vice Chairman of the Government and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure

Caroline Field, Customer Information Manager at MTR Crossrail, and Jonathan James, Head of Contracts at MTR Crossrail, discuss their experience of Japanese railways, highlighting lessons

We all know what it’s like: we’re at a busy station, we’re in a rush and there are a large number of announcements coming through

Transport, like many other areas of society, is becoming increasingly digital. As a result, cybersecurity is one of the main challenges for the sector. The

CHINA: DeepBlue Technology unveiled its Smart Panda Bus autonomous vehicle at the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Future Development Summit in Shanghai on January 18. Smart Panda Bus incorporates

The North-South Railway Project (NSRP) is a proposed railway line between Metro Manila, the National Capital Region (NCR) of the Philippines and Legaspi City, the

Setting up the world’s first commercial hyperloop. The chairman of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (Hyperloop TT), Bibop Gresta, revealed to state news agency WAM that the

The latest version of the Regulation concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Rail came into force on January 1. RID 2019 replaces the

EUROPE: Wagon leasing company Ermewa is to draw up a deployment concept for innovative wagons to support the business case for investment in vehicles which

The International Union of Railways (UIC) and freight association FERRMED signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at promoting a more efficient and sustainable Eurasian logistics

In recent years, passengers have benefited from record levels of rail investment, but still face an age-old problem – ticket confusion. Whilst travelling in different

In an interview with Global Railway Review, Matt Miller, Transportation Industry Principal at OSIsoft, LLC – a leading global supplier of application software for operational

Eurotunnel is currently working to ensure that new post-Brexit border controls will have no significant impact on Tunnel traffic. Eurotunnel has noted the vote against

Low-carbon, cost-effective transport is key to developing the growth of the economy to maintain a key part of EU infrastructure. European rail networks have historically

12 Jan 2019. Amtrak is gearing up to introduce new high-speed Acela trains as it plans to spend billions of dollars in upgrades on the

Alstom and Eversholt Rail Reveal New Hydrogen Train Design for the UK. Alstom has partnered with ROSCO Eversholt Rail to refurbish a fleet of British

Eurostar launched a direct rail service from London to Amsterdam in April 2018. Thanks to competitive pricing to entice passengers away from low-cost airlines (or