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    Aim younger: logistics is going to need more than a million more employees

    May 14, 2018

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    Alex Lennane, The Loadstar

    Logistics firms and their education advisors are now targeting children as young as 14 in an attempt to create more interest in the profession, as fears intensify of a gaping staff shortfall in the future.

    Ian Nichol, head of logistics at Career Ready, told delegates at...

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    Shanghai Keolis Runs First Fully Automated Metro Line in Shanghai

    April 12, 2018

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    Mass Transit

    On 31 March 2018, a new fully automated metro line was added to the Shanghai metro network. Shanghai Keolis, a joint venture between the Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Co. Ltd. (51 percent) and Keolis Group (49 percent), started operating the Pujiang metro line, the fir...

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    High-speed rail ‘could help relocation’: South Surrey-White Rock MP

    March 26, 2018

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    Alex Browne, North Delta Reporter

    South Surrey-White Rock MP Gordie Hogg says he is encouraged following a recent meeting with B.C. Premier John Horgan that there is a chance for meaningful forward progress on relocating rail traffic away from waterfront areas in the riding.

    Hogg – who was in Victo...

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    3 Far-Flung Cities Offer Clues to Unsnarling Manhattan’s Streets

    March 2, 2018

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    Christina Anderson et al, The New York Times

    The idea translates easily into any language: Charge drivers for using congested streets and watch them change their habits. It has become an increasingly attractive tool for major metropolises overwhelmed by the traffic strangling their streets.

    But actually carrying o...

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    Japanese team creates way to mass-produce earthquake-resistant metal

    September 8, 2017

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    Joe Quirke, GCR

    A team from Japan’s Tohoku University has found an economical way to improve the properties of “shape-memory” metals, so called for their ability to spring back after being deformed.

    The method could allow the mass production of such metals for applications such as eart...

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    China dreams of 4,000km/h “flying trains”

    September 8, 2017

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    Joe Quirke, GCR

    A Chinese state-owned space and military technology group will investigate the feasibility of a magnetic levitation (maglev) rail system that would leave Elon Musk’s futuristic Hyperloop concept in the dust.

    China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), whic...

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    Astonishing time-lapse footage shows how China pieces together its high-speed railways using 'The Iron Monster'

    July 11, 2017

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    Jamie Bullen, UK Mirror

    Astounding footage has captured how China builds its high-speed railways ahead of a planned multi-billion pound expansion.

    A video of China Railway Corporation's impressive bridge building machine - known as SL900/32 or 'The Iron Monster' - shows how giant concrete gird...

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    France aims to have ‘driverless’ high-speed TGV trains by 2023

    June 16, 2017

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    Amar Toor, TheVerge

    France’s national railway operator aims to have autonomous high-speed TGV trains running by 2023, according to a report from FranceInfo. The train operator, known by the French acronym SNCF, will begin testing a prototype of its so-called “drone train” in 2019, FranceI...

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    The world's first ever driverless rail train debuts in China

    June 14, 2017

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    DailyMail.com

    China has unveiled a track-less train that runs on virtual rails in a bid to speed up public transportation in major cities. 

    The new trains were announced on June 2 in Zhuzhou, China's Hunan province and are said to be non-polluting, reports the People's Daily Online. 

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    7 of the World's Most Stunning and Scenic Train Rides

    April 4, 2017

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    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics

    Just because we have planes and cars doesn't mean the good old-fashioned train ride is obsolete.. While many folks still use the train for urban commutes—and light rail tracks for even more—the world's web of longer train tracks offer all kinds of opportunities, whethe...

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