Swetha Gopinath, Bloomberg
Trainline, the transport-booking app, saw investors giving their seal of approval to the fast-expanding company on its first day of trading. CEO Clare Gilmartin deserves props for having doubled annual ticket sales over three years to $4 billion (£3.2 billion) while also making the company profitable.
2 months ago
Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg
Maybe California’s high-speed rail agency should spend less time suing the federal government over lost grants and more time focusing on cost overruns for the state’s beleaguered bullet train. Rail can be a less-carbon-intensive form of travel, but taxpayer money should be spent wisely.
3 months ago
Hanna Hoikkala and Niklas Magnusson, Bloomberg
Is airline passenger behavior in Sweden, where the numbers have been dropping, an outlier, or a sign of things to come? What is certainly true is this is a signal to airlines to get their efforts to reduce their carbon footprints in high gear.
4 months ago
Eileen Ng, Associated Press
Money talks. After months of uncertainty, it seems like the plan is back on track.
4 months ago
Dennis Schaal, Skift
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her Green New Deal have stirred up debate about the path toward a sustainable travel future. She's right on time — and hopefully not too late.
6 months ago
Thomas Black, Bloomberg
While most developed countries enjoy modern, high-speed rail travel, the U.S. is way behind. By the time it catches up, driverless cars with long-life batteries could supersede trains or perhaps climate change may have begun to wreak havoc.
6 months ago
Frank Jordans, Associated Press
The app sounds like a good idea, but it remains to be seen whether all of the incumbent transit systems, with their vested interests, will hop along for the ride.
6 months ago
Patrick Whyte, Skift
A new name shows that GoEuro has ambitions outside of Europe. Can it deliver on this promise?
6 months ago
Joyce Koh, Bloomberg
Reducing costs by 50 percent on rail construction is rare. Either China will subsidize the East Coast Rail Link, which is key to its infrastructure push into Southeast Asia, or there will be cutbacks on the project. What's clear, it's not derailed yet.
7 months ago
Elffie Chew and Natnicha Chuwiruch, Bloomberg
The Malaysian government will likely cancel The East Coast Rail Link — which would connect Malaysia to Thailand — due to a price tag that's been spiraling upward. While new transport infrastructure is usually good, emerging economies must choose projects with care.
7 months ago
Elise Young, Bloomberg
Amtrak is spending billions on new stations and faster tracks along the Northeast U.S. corridor, the nation's busiest train route. But the railway operator's work will be useless if any of the tunnels or rail bridges connecting New York with New Jersey and Connecticut falter.
7 months ago
Chiara Albanese, Bloomberg
In any country, it's awfully easy to decide against a new rail project, due to both the financial and environmental tolls.
8 months ago