BRAZILIAN president Dilma Roussef approved funding of Reais 800m ($US 404m) on March 6 for the planning and construction of a 15km a light rail line in São José dos Campos northeast of São Paulo.
THE United States Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) are awarding New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) $US 193m in Hurricane Sandy recovery funds.
THE Turkish government has presented a bill to parliament to split up Turkish State Railways (TCDD) to form a separate infrastructure manager and a train operating company, while at the same time paving the way for open-access operators.
ARRIVA, FirstGroup, National Express and Stagecoach, which were bidding for the cancelled Great Western franchise, have filed papers with the High Court in an attempt to get Britain's Department for Transport (DfT) to refund their costs.
A DISPUTE between Italy's open-access high-speed operator NTV and infrastructure manager Italian Rail Network (RFI) over NTV's plan to launch a new service between Milan, Rimini and Ancona on the Adriatic coast came to a head this week.
FRENCH National Railways (SNCF) and Spanish passenger operator Renfe have reached an agreement to start direct TGV services between Paris and Barcelona next month.
TRANSPORT for London is inviting its own staff as well as suppliers and individuals from the industry and academia to contribute ideas and innovative thinking about how it might improve its service and operations in a new online interactive portal.
Hyderabad is one of the first cities in India to adopt a public-private partnership model for its metro network, which is claimed to be the world's largest metro PPP.
Ten years after its first line opened, Delhi continues to set an impressive pace with the expansion of its metro network. Keith Barrow looks at how Phase 3 will bring much more of the city within reach of the metro during the next three years.
THE government of Monterey County, California, is considering a proposal to extend the state's successful Capitol Corridor inter-city passenger service south from San Jose to serve the town of Salinas.
