Hiroshima AGT deliveries completed
JAPAN: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has competed deliveries of 24 six-car Automated Guideway Transit rubber-tyred light metro trainsets ordered for Hiroshima Rapid Transit Co’s Astram Line.
New fleet boosts capacity on Nippori-Toneri Liner
JAPAN: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has completed the deliveries of a further 12 five-car Series 330 Automated Guideway Transit trainsets for Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation’s Nippori-Toneri Liner.
HS2 invites Birmingham Interchange peoplemover bids
UK: High speed line project promoter HS2 Ltd has invited shortlisted companies Poma and Doppelmayr Cable Car UK to tender for contracts to supply and operate a cable-hauled automated peoplemover to link the future Interchange station with the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham International station and the airport.
Mexico: Guided buses challenge urban rail projects
While Mexico is enjoying a renaissance in rail investment at a national level, urban rail projects in several cities are coming under threat from cheaper bus options and Chinese-backed ART technology. Michael Dreyer reports.
Baseball branded trainset to ‘raise excitement and enthusiasm’
JAPAN: Seibu Railway has ordered three Mitsubishi Heavy Industries rubber-tyre Automated Guideway Transit trainsets for use on its 2·8 km three-station Yamaguchi Line peoplemover which connects Tamako to Seibukyujo-mae in the greater Toyko area.
Brazil: Urban rail projects battle local politics
Examples in Cuiabá and Canoas show how vulnerable Brazilian urban rail projects are to changes in local politics, as well as the temptation of alternative modes which are seen as less complex, even if the benefits are lower. Marcelo Benoit examines the two cases.
Brazil: Salvador turns to the tram
Contract let to build Newark airport peoplemover as successor to monorail
King Abdullah Financial District monorail contract signed
Robots and Hyper Tube among KRRI research projects on show at InnoTrans
Alstom to modernise Las Vegas airport peoplemover
Elevated peoplemover opens in Xi’an
São Paulo monorail trainset unveiled
Innovia R peoplemover cars enter service on Bukit Panjang LRT
Inglewood Transit Connector peoplemover contractor selected
São Paulo Line 17 monorail delivery
Denver airport peoplemover cars enter service
Detroit to acquire peoplemover cars from Toronto
Dortmund H-Bahn looks to the future
Salvador seeks tram network to replace aborted monorail scheme
Dubai considers elevated pod platoons
Urbanloop personal rapid transit testing begins
Bangkok Pink Line monorail opens
Monterrey World Cup monorail cars unveiled
