January 7, 2021
Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) has agreed to provide remedial service at its own cost on 19 23.6-metre-long three-section Urbos light rail vehicles (LRVs) that are currently deployed in Besançon, after cracks were discovered in the bodies of the low-floor vehicles, supplied by CAF, in December 2017.
January 7, 2021
Régie Autonome des Transport Parisiens (RATP) Group and Enedis have extended their partnership for two additional years to support the development of sustainable transport services.
January 5, 2021
Transport for London (TfL) has completed an initial test run on the 3.2-km-long Kennington–Battersea Power Station section of London Underground’s Northern Line extension, covering two stations.
January 5, 2021
The Department for Transport (DfT) and Moovit, an Intel company, are collaborating to begin utilising the Bus Open Data Service (BODS), which is a central source of data on the timetable, bus location, and fare of every bus operator across England.
January 4, 2021
The European Commission (EC) has launched the European Year of Rail, an initiative that will help in highlighting the benefits of rail as a sustainable, smart, and safe means of transport to encourage more people and businesses to use rail services.
January 2, 2021
BYD has secured a EUR72 million framework contract from Gruppo Torinese Trasporti (GTT), the public transport operator in Turin, to supply 100 electric buses in Turin.
January 1, 2021
A consortium of Porr and Strabag has secured a EUR500 million contract from Wiener Linien, the public transport provider in Vienna, to construct a seven-km-long tunnel and four stations as part of the redirection of the Vienna U-Bahn Line U2.
December 30, 2020
The European Commission (EC) has approved a DKK1 billion government scheme under EU state-aid rules to compensate passenger rail transport operators in Denmark that have suffered losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
December 29, 2020
Solaris has completed the delivery of 90 Urbino 12 electric buses to Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), the public transport authority in Berlin.
December 29, 2020
LTG Infra, the company responsible for the implementation of the Rail Baltica project in Lithuania, has launched the second stage of a tender to select a contractor for the railway bridge over the river Neris, near Jonava in Lithuania.