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30 April 2008 | By Willie Gallagher, Executive Chairman, Transport Initiatives Edinburgh (tie)
Edinburgh has been through decades of development. The City’s economy and encouraging inward investment now ensures that when a business comes to Edinburgh, it comes to stay. One of the contributory factors to this success has been the vision and strategy of the City’s leaders; politically, economically and socially. The…
30 April 2008 | By Tooraj Shadnia, Senior Project Manager, Tube Lines
With a capital investment of £500 million, Tube Lines’ station upgrade programme is one of the largest in the world. Over the last five years, the programme has been delivered on time and within budget. Almost two million people use the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines every day. That’s over…
30 April 2008 | By ET
In the days before privatisation, British Rail undertook the design, manufacture and maintenance of the majority of components and systems which were used in railway vehicles. Passenger seating was no exception to this general rule. It is difficult to think of an organisation which conducted such an undertaking for a…
30 April 2008 | By Alain Flausch, Managing Director, STIB
The Brussels public transport company, STIB, has experienced a spectacular growth in passenger numbers during the last eight years. In addition to expanding its fleet and restructuring the metro, bus and tram networks, STIB has launched a number of studies with a view to expand the network in the highly-populated…
30 April 2008 | By Etienne Graindor, Smart-Card Project Manager, STIB
STIB, the main public transport operator in Brussels, has been involved with smart-ticketing for years, as a founder of the Calypso secure transactions EC supported project (1994-2002). Since June 2004, the main requirement of the Company Board has been to build a smart-ticketing system that is customer focused. Actually, the…
30 April 2008 | By Thomas J. Potter, Chief Engineer, Bybanen: Bergen Light Rail
In March 2000, Norway decided that a light rail system would be the ‘backbone’ of the city of Bergen’s public transport system, and so approved a 20km line from the city centre (Bergen sentrum) to the Bergen airport at Flesland via the suburban town centre of Nesttun and the major…
30 April 2008 | By Ivo Cré, Project Manager, Polis and Melanie Kloth, Project Manager, Polis
The famous riddle where nine dots have to be connected by straight lines without lifting your pen taught the world to “think outside the box”. Over the last five years, urban road charging has moved from the zoo of exotic transport management measures, to the heart of the public debate…
30 April 2008 | By Jarl Eliassen, Managing Director, Trafikanten AS
Trafikanten AS is responsible for customer services and travel information in the greater Oslo-area for all modes of public transport. The services are provided free-of-charge to the public through service-centres, call-centres, Internet, WAP and SMS on behalf of the PTA’s and all PT operators in the area. The geographical area…
30 April 2008 | By ET
IP Security Roundtable Participants: Jonas Andersson Director, Business Development, Axis Communications AB Robert Wint Marketing Director, EMEA, Verint Krishna Baboelal Policy Adviser, RET, Public Transport Company of Rotterdam Jens Puls Chief Security Officer, Deutsche Bahn AG Following the success of Intelligent Transport’s Public Transport Security 2008 conference, held in Berlin…
15 February 2008 | By Wolfgang Tiefensee, German Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs
The quality of life in our urban and rural areas is directly related to the quality of local public transport. Local public transport in Germany is indispensable, for ecological reasons and to ensure mobility for everyone. This is true of both conurbations, with their dense networks of rapid transit systems,…
15 February 2008 | By Dr. Tobias Heinemann, Chief Executive Officer, S-Bahn Berlin GmbH and Felix Pohl, Head of Marketing Department, S-Bahn Berlin GmbH
Since 1924, S-Bahn Berlin has been the backbone of mobility in Berlin. Up until the mid 1940s, the Berlin S-Bahn network had become one of the biggest urban rapid rail transport systems in Europe. The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, however, abruptly ripped the unified and closed rapid…
15 February 2008 | By Herbert Dombrowsky, CEO, VAG Nuremberg and Rainer Müller, Managing Director, VAG Nuremberg
After more than 125 years of operating a mass transit system, Nuremberg can boast a long tradition of quality public transportation. What began in 1881 with just a few horse-drawn carriages, is now a modern company with a vast route network. Today, VAG Nuremberg looks to the future, investing in…
15 February 2008 | By Fotis Karamitsos, Director Logistics, Innovation, Co-Modality & Maritime Transport, DG Transport and Energy, European Commission
With the majority of European Union citizens living in urban areas, the challenges of urban mobility are a key concern for the European Commission. However, growing transport demands may negatively affect our quality of life and our economy. Cities all across Europe face similar problems of congestion, road safety, security,…
15 February 2008 | By Dr. Haukur Ingason, Fire Protection Researcher, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
Fire incidents in trains can be divided into two main groups: those we can manage and those we cannot. For example, if a burning train comes to a stop inside a tunnel, the situation may become very difficult to manage, both for the tunnel operators and fire services. Such scenarios…
15 February 2008 | By Gilles de Chantérac, Chairman, Calypso Networks Association
Currently, only 10% of transport cards are micro-processor cards. However, this proportion has started to grow and will continue to increase if the transport market wants to provide the most secure solutions for fare management. Calypso cards account for 85% of those used today – outside the SONY FELICA non-standard…
