The environmental cost of car-reliance in cities typically focuses on air pollution, and all the damage particulate matter does to human lungs and lives. But road noise also has an impact on health and well-being—and it’s hardly a trivial one, as shown by new study published in the European Heart Journal.
The findings fit well with previous studies of traffic and health. While there have been relatively few studies of traffic …
Brussels officially boasts the second largest car-free pedestrian zone in Europe now that the handsome stretch between Place Fontainas and Place de Brouckere, along with many of its side streets, is now off limits to motor vehicles. Officially, only Venice has a larger car-less centre.
For over a decade plans and negotiations have been in the works to restrict cars to the city centre. The public in
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China remains the pacesetter in the world rail speed race, according to the latest World Speed Survey published in Railway Gazette International on July 1.
Authored by Jeremy Hartill of the UK’s Railway Performance Society, the biennial survey compiles in tabular form the fastest timetabled start-to-stop journeys between different pairs of stations in countries around the world. Most of the fastest timings occur between intermediate stations, where
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The first of 12 Alstom Duplex high speed trainsets for national railway ONCF was unloaded at the Port of Tanger on June 29. It had been shipped from the Port of La Pallice near La Rochelle in France onboard Ville de Bordeaux, a roll-on roll-off vessel custom-built to carry Airbus A380 aircraft sections.
