Even with the light rail systems, these metro areas are still more friendly to drivers than non-drivers.
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Despite a 1991 European Union directive which set targets for inter-operability between national rail systems, little progress has been made.
In some regions with large concentrations of employment, downtown major rail systems often attract many riders (although virtually all lose lots of money).
This includes machinery and equipment to build factories and steel mills, but also a transportation infrastructure that includes bridges, roads, airports and rail systems.
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Old lines can be re-used as cheaper light-rail systems, or paved over and converted into bus-ways, an idea that is being tested in Northamptonshire.
Twenty-three U.S. cities have opened rail systems since 1981.
All three commuter rail systems were planning to add extra train service in the afternoon to help carry an anticipated early rush hour of Manhattan office workers departing ahead of the storm.
Houston-based Powell Industries (nasdaq: POWL - news - people ) makes switchboards and other kinds of electric-power distribution equipment for businesses including commuter rail systems, utilities, and oil and gas producers.
What's more, legislation approved by the European Union last year that requires national rail systems to open up to operators from other countries by 2010, will further push development of a European network of high-speed rail.
But both MTA railroads maintain comprehensive inspection programs on their tracks, according to the MTA. Every two weeks, workers visually inspect "every inch of track" on both Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road systems for defects, an MTA official said.
The country also decided to reevaluate the safety systems of rail projects that have been approved but yet to start construction, and to suspend the examination or approval of newly proposed projects.
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Industrial partners on the project include Sellafield, the National Nuclear Laboratory, BAE Systems and Network Rail.
That change in perception is providing more momentum for some cities that were already moving away from six-lane highways and suburbs dozens of miles apart, to a series of urban centers connected by light rail and other mass transit systems.
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Rogoff has had an instrumental role in advising policy makers on the operating and capital needs of Amtrak, including the initiation and financing of high speed Acela service, as well as the financing of dozens of new light rail and bus rapid transit systems across the United States.
Infrastructure investments could include bridge and highway construction and repair, new commuter and high-speed rail lines, upgrading communications systems, renovating or building new schools, community colleges and state-of-the art job training facilities, investing in dams, waterways and water treatment facilities, reclaiming key wetlands, and improving the basic livability of impoverished neighborhoods.
Charging motorists for scarce road space, with most of the revenues being used to finance improvements in bus, rail or urban mass-transit systems, is the only sensible route to restraint.
Network Rail has upgraded power supplies and signalling systems and lengthened 41 platforms at 12 stations on the Midland main line north of London to accommodate the new trains which are nearly 270 yards (250m) long.
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The government plans to tackle congestion in cities by a big expansion in light rail, trams and other rapid-transit systems.
Another example of exporting prowess is TDSi, a small Dorset firm that designs access-control systems for offices, airports and rail networks.
We have to have logistics systems, be they road or rail or combined, that can meet the just-in-time requirements that companies have to meet in order to be competitive in the global marketplace.
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And we want to continue putting the men and women who have served this nation to work in our rail yards, in our skies, and throughout our transit systems.
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The team, from the university's School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, now hopes to offer advice to the rail industry on how to protect passengers.
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This will benefit not only unions, who will build and operate these systems, but companies like Siemens who push for greater rail expansions at the expense of maintaining and improving such critical infrastructure as roads.
Officials feared the brackish storm water that poured into tunnels could corrode vulnerable signal and switching systems, complicating the task of reopening a bus and rail system that ferries 8.5 million passengers on a typical workday.
Canadian teams are working to reorganise Bangladesh Rail, to prune its staff and minor routes and improve financial and accounting systems, in the way that Canadian National Railways was restructured.
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