QATAR Railways, which is responsible for the construction of Doha's 354km four-line metro, has awarded a €506m contract to a consortium led by FCC, Spain, to build a section of the Red Line.
Transport planners are starting to consider how "big data" retrieved from passenger smart cards, computers and mobile phones could improve the design of urban rail networks and timetables, and improve operations by predicting ridership.
The Saudi capital Riyadh has set itself a daunting task: to build an automated metro comprising six lines simultaneously in five years. David Briginshaw explains how this ambitious project will be implemented.
THE BOARD of Ile-de-France transport authority Stif approved draft plans for the €2bn western extension of Paris RER Line E from St Lazare to Mantes-la-Jolie on March 5.
Bangkok is pushing ahead with several projects to improve its rapid transit infrastructure. But with past schemes suffering from delays due to political wrangling, and as another political crisis grips Thailand, Kevin Smith assesses the current state of play for these undertakings.
The Baltic States are seeking to end their isolation from the European railway network with a new standard-gauge line from Tallinn to Warsaw, but governments have struggled to reach a consensus on the region's biggest-ever infrastructure project. Keith Barrow reports from Brussels and Vilnius on the quest to find common ground on Rail Baltica.
SOUTH West Trains (SWT) and Britain's transport minister Mr Stephen Hammond unveiled the first two of its additional class 458/5 five car emus at London's Waterloo station on March 7.
THE first three lines of the 12-line Moscow Metro are now equipped with free-to-use WiFi, and the entire 325.5km 194 station network should be fully fitted by September.
HANNOVERIANS had their first opportunity to sample the city's new type TW 3000 light rail vehicles on March 8, when two of the trams carried a total of 3200 passengers on free demonstration trips between Main Station and Allerweg in the city centre.
THE General Director of Serbian Railways (ZS) Mr Dragoljub Simonovic and Mr Sergei Pavlov, CEO of Russian Railways (RZD) subsidiary RZD International signed a $US 89.9m contract in Belgrade on March 6 to finance and implement the modernisation of the Serbian section of Pan-European Corridor 10.