16 May 2012
Last month the NTV Italo, owned by Ferrari boss Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, and boasting a top speed of 300 kilometres per hour completed its first full service trip from Naples. The distinctive red bullet trains will initially run a high-speed service along the newly built Milan-Flo...2 Apr 2012
Thanks to the ever-widening array of smartphones available, consumers the world over are not only getting used to information at their fingertips, wherever they are, but also to shopping, booking and comparing services on the go. There are literally millions of applications availabl...30 Mar 2012
It’s no longer possible to describe a ‘typical’ rail traveller. Whereas historically rail passengers consisted predominantly of either commuters or passengers on one-off journeys to visit friends and relatives, the expansion of high speed networks across the globe means t...2 Mar 2012
As we mentioned in our air-rail intermodality blogs last year, there is still a way to go before our vision of a fully integrated air-rail network is realised. The current lack of alliances between airlines and rail operators can be attributed in some part to factors such as the lack of go...14 Feb 2012
– our Valentine’s day special As we are about to close our High Speed Rail online survey at the end of the month, it is about time to look at what preferences have been expressed by women and by men. First of all, we tend to agree on the following: the majority of us, men and ...23 Jan 2012
After a year of turbulence for rail projects worldwide, 2012 has kicked off with a welcome flurry of activity and progress around the global development of high speed rail. Looking at some of the biggest and most influential projects in the pipeline at the moment, if January is anyt...2 Dec 2011
In our September blog we discussed how the global growth of high-speed rail should be giving rise to interline agreements between airlines and rail companies. However, we recognised that air-rail intermodality cannot become a reality until we have the investment in infrastructure nee...28 Oct 2011
What makes passengers decide to travel by rail? What do passengers want to see when booking, when at the station and when on board? And which celebrity would passengers most like to sit next to on a long distance journey? It is all too easy for us in the rail industry to bec...5 Oct 2011
As discussed in our blog last month, the global rail industry is being transformed by the development of high speed rail networks. Over the next couple of years this transformation is only set to continue, as China aims to expand its high speed rail network to 13,000km by 2012 and ha...4 Aug 2011
With the UK announcing that its economy grew by just 0.2%, the Euro faltering, and America battling an increasingly worrying debt crisis, the last quarter saw the debate surrounding the future of high speed rail re-ignited worldwide. It is increasingly being questioned whether hi...Philip Martin
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