THE board of Auckland Transport has called for studies to be carried out into the construction of a light rail network in New Zealand's largest city.
A COURT in Vienna has rejected an appeal by Siemens against public transport operator Wiener Linien's decision to award Bombardier a contract worth up to €562m for up to 156 low-floor LRVs.
PROPOSALS to connect Stockport to the Manchester Metrolink light rail network were published by Stockport Council on January 22 as part of a broader rail plan for the area, which has been developed in consultation with Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM).
TRANSPORTS Ciutat Comtal (TCC), a joint venture between Barcelona metro operator TMB and Catalonia's largest privately-owned public transport operator Moventia, has been selected for a 10-year concession to operate and maintain the light rail and bus networks in Portugal's second city Porto.
DELHI Metro Rail Corporation has awarded Alstom two contracts worth more than $US 75m to supply signalling, telecommunications, and electrification equipment for the first phase of the metro network in Kochi, India.
BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG transport authority (NVBW), together with transport authorities in southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Bergstrasse, and Saarland have selected DB Regio for a contract to operate Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn Lot 1 for 17 years from December 2016.
ITALIAN Railway Network (RFI) has signed two contracts for civil works on new high-speed lines in northern Italy.
PUGET Sound regional transport authority Sound Transit has been awarded a $US 1.33bn federal loan by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) to fund the expansion of Seattle's light rail network.
RHEINBAHN, the operator of Düsseldorf's light rail network, has awarded Siemens a contract to resignal the 11km Stadbahn tunnel beneath Düsseldorf city centre.
CHINA's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has approved construction of the Yuan 43.7bn ($US 7bn) first phase of the metro network in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province.