WASHINGTON Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has placed a $US 184m order with Kawasaki Heavy Industries for 100 additional series 7000 metro cars, which will replace unreliable Breda series 4000…
METROPOLITAN Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) awarded the first of three-design-build contracts on May 14 for the second phase of the Washington DC Silver Line, which will extend the line from…
SAN Diego Association of Governments (Sandag), the body responsible for public planning and transport in the San Diego area, launched public consultation on May 17 on the draft environmental report…
CALIFORNIA High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has awarded Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) a two-year extension worth $US 96m for programme management services on the state's high-speed rail project.
CANADIAN Pacific Railway (CP) announced on May 7 that it will bring forward a number of capital of investment projects planned for 2014 into the current financial year, increasing the…
NETWORK Rail Consulting, the international consultancy arm of British infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR), has entered the North American market after being selected to join Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (NEC) Partner…
NEW JERSEY Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) has launched a three-month smartphone ticketing pilot on the Pascack Valley commuter rail line, which will be used to evaluate the technology before a…
PRESIDENT Barack Obama has nominated Mr Anthony Foxx, the current mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, as the next US secretary of transportation, subject to approval by the US Senate.
THE US Department of Transportation has made $US 474m available for the fifth round of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (Tiger) grant programme.
