Following an international design competition, architecture and integrated design company Foster + Partners Team has been appointed to develop the architectural vision for Jeddah’s city-wide public transport plan.
Taking a long-term, sustainable approach, which anticipates growth centuries from now, the vision for Jeddah’s transport network includes the design of metro, ferry, bus, cycle, public spaces and nodes of development. The comprehensive plan extends from the design of the stations to the trains
A new project bringing together Mercedes-Benz and the Netherlands’ ministry of infrastructure and water management (Min I&W) aims to deliver more accurate data on roads.
A new series of compact ticket printer has been launched at Intertraffic by GeBE. The GeBE-Compact Plus printers have been designed for small spaces and tight enclosures. Crucially, the new machines print tickets transversely instead of longitudinally, so a smaller roll of paper is used for the same number of tickets. GeBE is exhibiting its bespoke printers for kiosk applications, ticketing and parking machines and access control systems.
Road transport organisation the IRU, the International Union of Railways (UIC) and Operation Lifesaver Estonia (OLE) have joined forces to raise awareness about level crossing safety amongst transport professionals.
Their recently-published Level Crossing Safety aims to raise awareness of professional drivers of how to avoid risks potentially leading to a collision and reduce related accidents at this key interface between road and rail infrastructure.
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