News tagged with rail networks

Algorithms provide a model of railway efficiency

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've noticed that Dutch trains experience less delays or that waiting times are shorter on the Berlin underground you can thank a team of European researchers whose advanced algorithms ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 3

China planning high-speed rail networks to Asia, Europe and UK

(PhysOrg.com) -- China is planning high-speed rail networks in the next decade between China, Europe, the UK, Asia and India, with trains running at over 320 kph. Train passengers will be able to travel to ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report




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Study takes novel 'back-casting' approach to transform cities for healthier lives

Researchers at four of the country's leading universities are embarking on a low carbon engineering project that could transform the way cities are built, as well as the way we live in them, by taking a novel 'back-casting' ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New Google data show Microsoft's piracy problems (Update 2)

(AP) -- Google's Internet search engine receives more complaints about websites believed to be infringing on Microsoft's copyrights than it does about material produced by entertainment companies pushing ...

Technology / Internet

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Italy launches private high-speed train

Italy launched Europe's first private high-speed train service this week, as the country looks towards the more liberal economy that Prime Minister Mario Monti wants to put on the rails.

Technology / Business

created Apr 22, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2

India cannot achieve China-like growth without reforms: research

Without new and sustained governmental reforms, India will not realize its economic growth goals or potential, according to a new policy report from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In shadows of hype, dialogue of 'too much' at SXSW

(AP) -- At South By Southwest's 2012 interactive conference, there was, as usual, no shortage of eagerness for new developments and excitement for gadgetry.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mobile money faces developed-world challenge

Instances of the so-called tail wagging the dog abound. Add to that club mobile-money services, the idea that you can make financial transactions of all kinds using only a cellphone.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Chinese netizens flood Obama's Google+ page

Hundreds of Chinese have flooded US President Barack Obama's Google+ page, apparently taking advantage of a glitch in China's censorship system to post about human rights and green cards.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 26, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 7

Rio Tinto plans world-first driverless rail network

Miner Rio Tinto will use driverless trains to deliver its iron ore to ports in Western Australia in what it said Monday will be the world's first automated, long-distance, heavy-haul rail network.

Technology / Other

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Indiana launches new ultra-high-speed network

Indiana is the first state to launch a high-speed 100-gigabits-per-second (Gbps) network link dedicated to research and education. The new network, named Monon100, is 10 times faster than the current network link. With it, ...

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

DNA motor programmed to navigate a network of tracks

Expanding on previous work with engines traveling on straight tracks, a team of researchers at Kyoto University and the University of Oxford have successfully used DNA building blocks to construct a motor ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast


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