JAPAN: East Japan Railway has announced the results of its experiments with a 6 m² piezoelectric floor covering, which was fitted at the ticket gates of a Tokyo station where it used the movement of passengers to generate electricity.
It worked, but only just. Production peaked at 10 kW-sec a day - equivalent to lighting a 100 W bulb for 100 sec - but the output decreased after three weeks and 800?000 passengers due to the degradation of the piezoelectric elements.
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SERBIA: Minister of Construction, Transportation & Infrastructure Goran Vesić has resigned on November 5 in the wake of street protests which followed the fatal collapse of a canopy at Novi Sad station. The 35 m concrete canopy on the outer façade of the building collapsed at ...
SWEDEN: The VR Sverige subsidiary of Finland’s national operator has won the next contract to operate Öresundståg services from Göteborg, Kalmar and Karlskrona to Malmö and across the Øresund Bridge to Denmark. The tender was called by Öresundståg AB, which is jointly owned by the ...
