THE City of Edmonton confirmed on November 25 that it has selected the TransEd Partners consortium as preferred bidder for the PPP contract to design, build, operate, maintain and finance the city's Valley Line LRT project.
RITES, India, has completed a detailed project report for a light metro line in the Indian city of Agra, which will serve key historical sites including Agra Fort, the tomb of Akbar the Great, and the Taj Mahal.
MALAYSIA and Singapore's land transport authorities say they have received 98 responses to the request for information for the proposed Kuala Lumpur - Singapore high-speed project, which was issued in October.
MORE than 120 software developers, designers and entrepreneurs from around the world joined together last weekend for Hacktrain, a 48-hour onboard "hackathon" with the goal of developing new innovations to benefit the British railway industry.
TRENITALIA's latest-generation high-speed train the Frecciarossa 1000 (ETR 1000) set a new Italian rail speed record on November 26, when one of the eight-car sets reached 389km/h during nocturnal testing on the Milan - Turin high-speed line.
THE first trial runs with passengers on the 28km Porto Maravilha light rail network took place on November 21, when the mayor of Rio de Janeiro Mr Eduardo Paes boarded an Alstom tram for trip over the city centre section of the line.
TRANSPORT Infrastructure Ireland (TII) signed a €36.5m contract with Alstom on November 17 for seven additional Citadis low-floor LRVs for Dublin's Luas light rail network, which will expand the existing fleet of 66 vehicles in preparation for the opening of the Cross City Line in 2017.
TRANSTECH, Finland, rolled out the first production Artic low-floor LRV for Helsinki City Transport (HKL) at its Otanmäki plant in central Finland on November 19.
IRJ at ERA Moving Towards the Single European Rail Area conference, Luxembourg: Mr Leos Novotny, CEO of Czech open-access private passenger operator Leo Express, says his company is proof that it is possible for passenger rail services to be profitable despite the obstacles sometimes imposed by incumbent railways.
LYON Transport Authority Sytral has exercised a €20m option with Alstom to supply seven additional Citadis low-floor LRVs for the city's light rail network.
