For decades, the following principle applied to public transport and rail transport planning, especially in the Ruhr area: the tram…

Gdańsk’s public transport operator GAiT and transport authority ZTM inaugurated a new tram extension on 30 June 2020 as well…

Spanish CAF group signed an agreement with SL AB (Storstockholms Lokaltrafik), the local entity responsible for Stockholm’s…

The first brand new CAF „Urbos 100“ tram for Belgium’s famous Coastal Tram has just arrived at its new home: After a 1,700 km trip on a RoRo…

This article is an extract from the just published, most extensive compendium on all aspects of rolling stock technology, an international,…

Numerous high-floor Tatra trams are due to be replaced in Germany’s eastern German tram operations. Gera in southeastern Thuringia…

Freiburg/ Breisgau in Southwestern Germany is known for its environmentally friendly transport policy. The city of 230,000 inhabitants…

Last week we reported on the new tramway in Cuenca/Ecuador as one of the highest tramway systems in the world. (see: https://www.urban-transport-magazine.com/en/opening-under-covid-restrictions-tranvia-cuenca-in-ecuador/…

At 2,550 metres above sea level in Europe you may just find some mountain railways as public transport, but not so in the Americas: Cuenca…

For the first time in the history of the tram operations in Leipzig, Görlitz and Zwickau, a tram fleet is being jointly tendered as part…