Heatwaves can cause tracks to buckle, forcing speed restrictions or closures. An engineering expert explains how railways can adapt to a hotter climate.
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Once completed, the 2,177-kilometer GCC Railway will connect six Gulf kingdoms and provide alternative routes to Europe and Asia.
The most important lesson for Australia is not to slow digitalisation, but to make it more resilient and remove single points of failure.
It wasn’t just mobile phones that went down with the Telstra outage. Here’s how trains connect to the mobile network.
The prospect of seamless wifi coverage, whichever way you travel, could soon be a reality.
Customers may opt for long-haul train travel to avoid busy and stressful airport and flight experiences.
One party wants to lower fares. The other wants more services. Neither proposal represents a serious plan to address decades of public transport underfunding.
A high-speed rail line could operate without producing significant emissions. But this doesn’t mean it would substantially help Canada’s mitigation efforts.
A mistimed switch change could have caused the derailment.
The deadly derailment has shone a spotlight on this transport relic of the 19th century.
Climate-proofing Australia’s 29 rail networks won’t be easy – but here’s how it can be done.
The French-designed, American-manufactured NextGen arrives years late and in a moment when federally sponsored trains are fighting for their lives.
Neither lowering fares or simply increasing enforcement can solve fare evasion alone. Investing in better services and winning public trust are just as important.
Government legislation is about to give more power to local authorities.
Both gasoline and diesel fuel are refined from crude oil, but they are good for different things and can’t be used interchangeably.
Between them, the Queensland and ACT trials of almost free and free public transport could change how fares are set in Australia.
Workers in industries like railways and air travel have significant structural power and can use their leverage to win favourable contracts because of the amount of economic disruption they can cause.
The Labour government wants to renationalise UK railways - but will it be any better this time round?
A civil engineer explains why roadways and rails warp and crack in the heat − and points to some innovative ways to keep the US transportation system healthy as long as possible.
Britain’s railways are a vital pillar of the economy, so inefficiencies in the network hit the country in the pocket.
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Visiting Research Fellow, Intelligent Mobility, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Operations Management, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Fellow, Centre for Free Expression, Toronto Metropolitan University; York University, Canada
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Professor in Transport Planning, University of Westminster
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Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Researcher in Transport Policy and Governance, UCL
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Associate Professor of English, University at Buffalo
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Studying Complex Systems, Stanford University
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Professor of Transport, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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PhD Candidate, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Engineering Dynamics and Vibration, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Construction and Environmental Assessment, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor in Sustainable Urbanism, Swinburne University of Technology