Constructing a guided busway on a disused railway line in Cambridge presented many unique challenges that would rule out the use of standard construction equipment. Existing railway bridges needed to be negotiated and local farmland had to be considered.
Traffic that grinds to a halt and then restarts for no apparent
reason is one of the biggest causes of frustration for drivers. Now a
team of Japanese researchers has recreated the phenomenon on a
test-track for the first time.
A transport revolution in New Delhi has an unbreakable deadline of
3 October 2010, the start of the Commonwealth Games. Jackie Whitelaw
reports from India.
Civil engineering group Strukton, owned by state-owned Dutch Rail,
dominates the front page of Tuesday's Telegraaf with its ambitious
plans to shift much of Amsterdam's infrastructure underground.
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) supports many of the
reform and financing recommendations made in the report released today
by National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Commission.
