For public transport to be acceptable to the travelling public, it has to meet two major requirements: firstly it has to be fit for purpose and, secondly, it has to be pleasant to use.
Section: Carriage Design
Publication Date: August 2004 The International Association of Public Transport (UITP) predicts that more and more cities worldwide will follow Singapore's recent example of introducing fully automated driverless metro systems.
Section: Carriage Design
Publication Date: August 2004 Transmitton, the supplier of integrated system control and asset management solutions to the rail industry, has begun work to upgrade and extend operational control facilities for the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) to support the extension to London City Airport.
Section: Carriage Design
Publication Date: August 2004 Jorg Villmann looks at the problems of wheel fracture and the development of new designs to reduce failure problems and maintenance costs.
Section: Carriage Design
Publication Date: August 2004 MTM Power Messtechnik Mellenbach GmbH, the specialist for individual power supplies, has designed a new generation of dc/dc converters: the series PMDS/PCMDS60W.
Section: Carriage Design
Publication Date: August 2004 In the past few years the requirements on the materials used for the construction of rail vehicles have risen.
Section: Carriage Design
Publication Date: August 2004 It should not come as any great surprise to learn that the UK Rail Industry is currently experiencing a significant skills shortage, a shortage that is threatening the very renaissance currently underway. This is leading to an inflationary pressure on salaries, as everyone tries to poach staff from each other to fill their needs. One solution to this problem is to 'locate' more of the highly skilled professionals that the industry needs, which would enable growth without the inflationary wage pressures - easier said than done!
Section: Carriage Design
Publication Date: August 2003 Trenitalia, the Italian national railways' passenger-transport company, has ordered a further 100 CORADIA 'Minuetto' trains (49 electric trains and 51 diesel trains) from Alstom for a total amount of about E315 million.
Section: Carriage Design
Publication Date: August 2003 Direct current (dc) input variable-speed compressors are used in a variety of mobile applications, including climate control, which offers significant savings.
Section: Carriage Design
Publication Date: August 2003 Specifically developed for the transport industry, Polyflor Voyager is suitable for all carriage areas, including seating, vestibule, bathroom, galley and dining sections.
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Publication Date: August 2003 The main-line diesel-electric locomotive TERA1 is is designed for freight services on the railways in the member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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Publication Date: August 2003 The Type 12 off-the-shelf sub-rack family from Elma has passed the demanding BN411002 and BN411003 mechanical and environmental tests of the Federal German Railway.
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Publication Date: August 2003 The role of a train management system onboard modern rolling stock is to provide data communication and enhanced co-operation between the systems, as well as centralised control and diagnostics of the connected subsystems.qqqJyrki Keurulainen reports.
Section: Carriage Design
Publication Date: August 2003 There is no doubt that the travelling public wants to travel faster and railway companies are convinced that shaving just a few minutes off a given trip will produce a profitable increase in passenger numbers. Eric Russell looks at the latest developments in high speed trains.
Section: Carriage Design
Publication Date: August 2003 While the use of traditional door trainlines allows non-safety critical door controller software, some applications do require the enhanced flexibility of selectively commanding the remote opening and closing of access doors.
Section: Carriage Design
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