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DfT plans total transport link-up with NHS groups
The Department for Transport (DfT) has plans to work with councils to improve engagement with NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) under its total transport programme.
Vital Ely rail project on track with £3.3m from LEP
An agreement to move forward work to improve rail capacity through the vital Ely area has taken a significant step forward thanks to funding from two LEPs.
British Airways Starts Scanning Faces to Enable Faster Boarding
British Airways is rolling out technology that will allow passengers to go through boarding gates at its main London Heathrow Airport hub using facial recognition.
Saturday, 25 March 2017
BBC News
- Bus Eireann strike: Cross-border services affectedSome cross-border bus services are cancelled due to industrial action in the Republic of Ireland.
- Cycle courier wins holiday pay battleAn employment tribunal rules that a self-employed cycle courier for Excel was actually
- Petrol and diesel prices cut amid pressure on retailersSupermarkets will cut 2p off the price of a litre of petrol and diesel this weekend.
Financial Times
- Biometrics take off for BA passengers on boardingAirline is rolling out automated gates to replace staff in London
- India’s Uber drivers feel taken for a rideMany people whom Uber helped take out car loans struggle with payments as subsidies are cut
The Guardian
- Calm UK’s roads to encourage walking and cyclingEvidence has long been available showing that new roads generate too much extra traffic to solve congestion (New roads fail to ease traffic or lift economies, say researchers, 20 March).
The Independent
- Robots and AI are threatening close to a third of UK jobs, study revealsThe likelihood of automation is highest in sectors including transport, manufacturing, and wholesale and retail
- Severe weather causing delays to half of commuters at least once a month, Earth Hour poll findsSurvey finds more than half of people don’t think their lives are affected by climate change, but increased rainfall and flooding in the UK have been linked to the rise in global temperatures
The Scotsman
- ScotRail growth halted after 14-year riseScotRail passenger growth has stalled for the first time in 14 years because of major disruption caused by engineering work, The Scotsman has learned.
The Telegraph
Times Online
- Demand for powers to ban kerb parking [Subscription]Motorists should be banned from parking on pavements to declutter residential streets and encourage more people to walk, ministers have been told.
- Truckers want ban on cyclists’ headphones [Subscription]A row between cyclists and motorists that has been ongoing for decades has stepped up after the Irish Road Haulage Association called for a ban on cyclists wearing headphones and a penalty points system for riders.
- Strike is on as communication breaks down [Subscription]The all-out strike at Bus Éireann is to continue throughout the weekend after the unions and management failed to make contact with each other to try to solve the dispute.
- Falling crude burns big hole in takings at secretive empire [Subscription]It is one of the world’s biggest companies you’ve never heard of, with an empire that stretches from oil refineries to fuel services, but Vitol has become the latest to suffer from the fall in crude prices.
Mail Online
- Forget traffic jams, hail a cab from the sky: Flying TAXIS could be hitting Singapore by 2030 The days of sitting in a taxi while it's stuck in a traffic jam could soon be a thing of the past for people in Singapore.
- David Cameron's chum-ocracy and its links with Uber bosses Did David Cameron and George Osborne lean on Boris Johnson and Transport for London after the former mayor of London went after Uber in 2015?
Bradford Telegraph & Argus
- Transport firms pledge to pay for taxis if last bus of the night fails to turn up WEST Yorkshire’s three biggest bus companies have united with transport chiefs to try to tempt more people on to the buses.
- 'Slow down' motorists are urged by police as more than 3,000 speeding drivers are caught
London Evening Standard
- London Overground delays: Rush hour commuters stranded on packed trains for over an hour after power failure at Surrey QuaysStaff then evacuated passengers onto the railway tracks
- Troubled Fastjet puts a new crew on flight deckFastjet, the struggling Africa-focused budget airline, has unveiled a refreshed management team after naming a new chairman, director and finance chief.
Wales Online
- This is how many people were caught using Cardiff's bus lanes in February The figures released by Cardiff council revealed a slight decline from the number of people penalised from January to February
Other Regional Press
- Transport users meeting setHELENSBURGH Community Council are facilitating a a meeting of transport users in the area who would like to see an improvement on the town transport later this month.
- Motorists urged to check for bikes in Bedford this summerBedfordshire Police is encouraging drivers to be on the lookout for motorcyclists as seasonal bikers start returning to the roads.
Buying Business Travel
- Norwegian added to government air travel programmeAirline joins list of preferred carriers
- Eastern Airways to launch Glasgow-Isle of Man routeEastern Airways has announced a new route from Glasgow to the Isle of Man, less than two weeks after securing routes to Northern Ireland North East of England
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
- Will Whitehorn appointed as a Senior Independent DirectorGVC is pleased to announce the appointment today of Will Whitehorn to the Company's board of directors as Senior Independent Director. Will is the Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director at Stagecoach Group plc and is an independent Non-executive Director of Purplebricks Group plc. He is also a member of the First Minister of Scotland's 'GlobalScot' Business mentoring network, President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and Chairman of the Scottish Gallery and Scottish Event Campus Limited. Previously, Will joined the Virgin Group in 1987 and served as...
Rail Technology Magazine
- Axalta to provide power coating for Metro Line 17 in Shanghai, China Axalta-Huajia Coatings is set to join forces with engineering company Shazc Group to coat the sound barriers installed on new Metro Line 17 in Shanghai, China.
- Deals this week: BAM Nuttall, DFCCIL, Siemens Stadler Rail Services has awarded a £20m contract to UK-based civil engineering company BAM Nuttall for construction of a train depot in Kirkdale, Liverpool.
- RSGF releases �2m funding to drive new composite tube doors productionA £2m funding package for the recently launched Rail Supply Growth Fund (RSGF), managed by Finance Birmingham, has been announced, allowing company Penso to push forward with innovating work on new composite designs for train doors. The RSGF is supported by the Department for Business...
- Improvement plans at Ely North move forward with �8.8m LEP investmentThe rail network in East Cambridgeshire is set to receive a £8.8m cash injection from two Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) in the area who will fund studies into improving services in the region, including at Ely North Junction. Network Rail will carry out the studies, which will...
- Raising wall work at Linlithgow heritage railway site completedWork has been completed to raise the height of walls bordering the railway heritage site at Royal Terrace and Union Road in Linlithgow, as part of the Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP). A total of £650k has been put into the project to ensure the boundary of the railway is...
- Award of �8.6bn civil contracts for HS2 pushed back to JuneA total of £8.6bn worth of civil contracts for the first phase of HS2, which were due to be awarded next month, have been pushed back to June, RTM has been told. Bidders have been informed that the procurement process has been delayed, and HS2 is now requesting further information from the...
Transport Network
- DfT plans total transport link-up with NHS groupsThe Department for Transport (DfT) has plans to work with councils to improve engagement with NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) under its total transport programme.
Aviation Industry
- 'More comfortable' economy middle seat to be unveiledMolon Labe has teamed up with BMW’s Designworks and Panasonic Avionics to create an economy-cabin design that would make the middle seat wider and more attractive. A concept model of the novel design will be unveiled at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, April 4-6. read more
- Lufthansa Technik expands Asia-Pacific MROBased on continual growth in narrowbody aircraft in the Asia-Pacific region, Hamburg-based maintenance, repair and overhaul provider Lufthansa Technik Group plans to launch an additional MRO facility in Kuala Lumpur focused on those aircraft. read more
- Virgin Australia extends Mainland China networkVirgin Australia’s launch of a flight to Hong Kong will dramatically expand its Chinese mainland network thanks to its prospective partnership with China’s HNA Group. read more
- China Aircraft Leasing 2016 net profit up 68% to $82 million Hong Kong-based China Aircraft Leasing Group posted a 2016 net profit of 638.4 million Hong Kong dollars ($82.3 million), up 67.9% from the company’s HK$380.2 million net profit in 2015. read more
Other News Sources
- Hyperloop One rival unveils new designs for high-speed transport systemHyperloop Transportation Technologies has begun the construction of its vacuum-sealed passenger pod, with the final design set to be unveiled in 2018.
- Vital Ely rail project on track with £3.3m from LEPAn agreement to move forward work to improve rail capacity through the vital Ely area has taken a significant step forward thanks to funding from two LEPs.
- British Airways Starts Scanning Faces to Enable Faster BoardingBritish Airways is rolling out technology that will allow passengers to go through boarding gates at its main London Heathrow Airport hub using facial recognition.
- Transports of delightPersonal transport may be in for some revolutionary changes, predicts The Scientific Alliance.
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