Alstom has inaugurated a new production line for Citadis trams at its Taubaté plant, state of São Paulo, in Brazil. The opening ceremony was attended by local authorities, company representatives and Henri Poupart-Lafarge, president of Alstom Transport...
Digital Signage Expo (DSE) announced March 3 that its 12-part Digital Signage Seminar Program at DSE 2015 designed specifically for end user professionals will include an hour-long interactive session titled “Technology Enabled Environments...
The deadline for proposals related to operations and maintenance services for the Cincinnati Streetcar has been extended to allow more time for prospective proposers on this complex procurement.
Proposals are due no later than March 30, 2015, 2 p.m...
Pendolino, Alstom’s high speed train, has successfully covered one million kilometres in Poland.
Since the start of its operation, mid-December 2014, Alstom has secured a 100% availability of the train fleet which has made around 2,000 journeys...
Authorities say an SUV driven by an elderly woman has been hit by a train at a crossing in New York, about 40 miles south of a fatal crash last month that killed six.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority police say a crossing gate came down on the SUV...
A Caltrain struck and killed a pedestrian in San Jose on Monday afternoon, halting service in the Gilroy direction for nearly two hours, officials said.
Reports of the incident came in around 5:15 p.m., indicating an unidentified male had been struck...
No injuries were reported after a train crash Sunday that came just days and a couple miles from where a Metrolink train derailed last week.
On Sunday, Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner Train 796 left the Oxnard Transit Center headed west with 75 people on...
Washington, D.C.'s mayor has named a new fire chief to take control of a department roundly criticized for poor service, including its response to a fatal subway accident in January.
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser named Gregory Dean at a news...
A 23-year-old woman died after she was struck by a light rail train south of downtown Houston, authorities said Monday.
A MetroRail hit the woman about 7:30 p.m. Monday along Main near Drew, said officials with the Metropolitan Transit Authority of...
The company that operates the state's commuter rail system has been fined more than $434,000 after nearly two-thirds of the trains were late or canceled during the heavy snowfalls that pounded the region last month, transit officials said Monday...
U.S. Bancorp has agreed to invest $15.8 million in the Hamline Station housing complex, which is under construction near the Green Line stop of the same name. In exchange for investment, the complex's developer, Project for Pride in Living, will...
The projects in Gov. Mark Dayton's $6 billion road and bridge plan would cost as little as $40,000 — or as much as $482 million, new numbers released Monday show.
The list of 600-plus projects was released two weeks ago, but the Minnesota Department...
A Senate committee unanimously recommended the confirmation of Gov. Larry Hogan's choice to be transportation secretary Monday night after bringing him back for a second round of questioning.
The vote came after Pete Rahn, a former top transportation...
A Pakistani man who's acting as his own attorney at a U.S. terror trial told a jury in closing arguments Monday that he was busy chasing women on the Internet at the time of his arrest — not plotting death and destruction at a busy British shopping...
A long-awaited project designed to more than double the 3-mph average speed of CTA buses traveling across the middle of downtown will be called Loop Link, and construction of bus-only lanes and rapid transit-style boarding stations is set to begin in...
At Mobile World Congress, MasterCard March 1 announced a global partnership with Cubic Transportation Systems. The alliance is designed to help the millions of daily commuters around the world experience faster, more convenient and personalized ways to...
Kansas City's downtown streetcar construction process is nearly 50 percent complete and should be finished by this fall.
But then the vehicles will undergo months of testing before passengers are expected to start riding in the first few months of...
The opening of the SWTA and NMTA conference and expo began with a look at how ADA legislation has transformed our lives and provided some personal insight in what that has done and the challenges still ahead.
Cubic Transportation Systems Inc. announced March 1 its customer Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund GmbH (RMV) sold 5 million tickets through its Cubic-developed mobile ticketing app.
Managing director for RMV, Professor Knut Ringat said, “Five million...
Digital Signage Expo (DSE) will not only present an exhibit floor packed with the newest, most cutting-edge technology, but will also host a very large group of attendees from well known organizations from around the world.
March 10-13 at the Las Vegas...
The Toronto Transit Commission's fourth new streetcar, car number 4405, entered regular service March 1, on the 510 Spadina route.
The 510 Spadina line is an all-door boarding, proof-of-payment route equipped with Presto readers and fare vending...
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) reminded Muni riders that the Free Muni for low-to-moderate income seniors and people with disabilities program began March 1.
Following unanimous approval by the SFMTA board on Jan. 20, the...
Sekisui Polymer Innovations LLC announced Feb. 27 their purchase of a third manufacturing facility.
The new site is a 375,000 square foot facility on 56 acres in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, located two miles from company headquarters. The thermoplastic...
