Archive for 'Other Transports' Category
Mayor Roland Ries interviewed about sustainable mobility
Roland Ries, French Senator and Mayor of Strasbourg has been interviewed by Sustainable Mobility. He explains is vision for the future of transportation. More interviews on Sustainable Mobility site.
An animated map of Auckland’s public transport network
An animated map of Auckland’s public transport network from Chris McDowall on Vimeo. Nice animation from Chris McDowall for Sciblogs: [...] The animation begins at 3am on a typical Monday morning. A pair of blue squiggles depict the Airport buses shuttling late night travellers between the Downtown Ferry Terminal and Auckland International. From 5am, a [...]
Volvo displays first tangible application of road train
A new Routemaster bus for London
On 11 November 2010, a life-size mock-up of the Mayor’s New Bus for London was unveiled at the London Transport Museum’s Acton depot. A prototype will be delivered late next year with the first five buses set to be ready for passenger service in early 2012. The Mayor of London unveiled the design for the [...]
Fraunhofer AutoTram: electric tram + bus of tomorrow
Electric and hybrid vehicles will take over the cities: cars, bicycles, buses and streetcars. New concepts are needed for individual and local public transportation. In the large-scale project “Fraunhofer System Research on Electric-Powered Mobility“, researchers are developing solutions for mobility of the future. The first results have now been presented. Closing time: the passengers are [...]
Are trolleybuses more sustainable than LRV?
Among the neverending list of blogs I follow, Low Tech Magazine is one of the most interesting and challenging, keeping in mind my predilection for railways. Some of the theses exposed in its posts goes sometimes towards the necessity of shifting to railway and high speed in particular. Therefore I consider this blog as a [...]