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Railway becomes metro: Rotterdam’s Hoek van Holland line von Editorial | UTM

The Netherlands are amongst the most densely populated countries in Europe. Urbanisation and suburbanisation are continuously …


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Nantes launches e-busway with bi-articulated buses von Editorial | UTM

The French city of Nantes started operation of an innovative electric bus rapid transit system, called e-busway. Based on an existing…


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Chemnitz launches new Škoda For City Classic low-floor tram von Editorial | UTM

It is the first new-built Škoda tram in Germany and the first Czech-built tram in Germany since the last Tatra tram deliveries in the …


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Düsseldorf: One year of Metrobus operation von Christian Marquordt


Rheinbahn Düsseldorf started a new service offering on 12 September 2018 – just one year ago. In addtion to the existing light rail and…


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Tailwind for German regional train services von Jens Bernhardt

After several decades of decline most of the remaining German regional railway lines benefited from considerable investments in …


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Regenerative substations save electricity in public transport von Reinhard Christeller

While alternating current railways have been able to easily feed their braking energy back into the grid for decades, this was only …


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Railway becomes tramway: Bilbao von Editorial | UTM

On 8 September the last meter-gauge train left the well-known terminal station Atxuri in Bilbao – some 105 years after its inauguration.…


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Mexico City’s metro celebrates its 50th Anniversary von Editorial | UTM

Even the Google Doodle – that is how Google calls its’ logo is used to commemorate holidays, events, achievements, and notable historical…


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Metro Mirandela closed von Dirk Budach

Metro Mirandela in Northern Portugal undoubtedly ranked among the least known urban transport systems in the world. Here, in the remote…


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Berlin: Tender for 1,500 metro cars on hold von Editorial | UTM

In 2017 Berlin’s public transport operator BVG launched a tender for the procurement of metro cars for its 151.7 km metro network, the…


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