Matthieu Desiderio joins High Speed Rail Canada

MATTHIEU DESIDERIO – Transport Expertise Founder Joins HSRC – Friday, May 30, 2008
High Speed Rail Canada is very proud to announce that MATTHIEU DESIDERIO from Paris France has joined High Speed Rail Canada as our International Representative. Mattthieu is the founder of the organization and website Transport Expertise. For more background on Mattthieu check out [...]

Automatic buses in France: ended story?

Despite the good results of experimentations nothing happened since 2004…
In 2004, a first attempt of automatic minibus implementation was tested in Antibes (South of France). This was part of a research project called Cybermove (see website in the References below), which has analysed in details 11 sites in Europe. The purpose of Antibes demonstration was [...]

In brief: DHL North America: UPS was definitely interested!

We finally know, after a couple weeks/months, what was going on with DHL North America’s operation!
UPS Inc. announced on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 that it will provide air transportation in North America for DHL Express, subsidiary of Deutsche Post. This radical change is part of DHL costs cutting policy since a couple months.The final contract [...]

How about producing solar electricity on your warehouse’s roof?

Updated from May 14, 2008 version
It appears that more and more suppliers tend to take into account environmental concerns in their supply chain management. This trend towards a “greener” attitude from well-known brands is thus more and more encountered, especially in the retail distribution sector. Carrefour, a French major player in retailing distribution, in association [...]

In brief: Air France-KLM net benefits fall 16%!

Net benefit falls, but other figures are up!
Air France-KLM, the French-Dutch airline, announced this month a net benefit down 16%, to €748 million over the fiscal year ending March 2008. The company explained that highest petrol prices, and a €530 million provision were the two reasons why net benefit is so low compared to the [...]

In brief: DHL inaugurates its new hub in Leipzig

Frank Appel, new DHL (Deutsche Post) President, inaugurated the company’s new European hub in Leipzig (Germany). Both German Foreign Affairs (Frank-Walter Steinmeier) and (Wolfgang Tiefensee) Transport Secretaries were part of the ceremony.
Frank Appel explained the multiple reasons why DHL hub has been set up in Leipzig: its proximity from the Eastern Europe growing markets, the [...]

High Speed Rail: Internet connection on board Thalys trains

Thalys, the train service operated by both the French national railway company SNCF and the Belgium national railway company SNCB inaugurated May 14, 2008 its new on-board service: Wi-Fi internet is now available while running at 320 kph between Paris, Brussels, Köln, and Amsterdam. At the same time, Thalys inaugurated the portal associated to the [...]

Study release: French Offer in Urban Mobility

Transport Expertise today released its first study “L’offre française dans la mobilité urbaine“ (French Offer in Urban Mobility). Published in French, a partial version is available here, and the full version may be sent to your email address upon demand through the website’s contact form.
What’s in?
This paper gathers facts and figures from 24 major companies [...]

DHL USA: recent updates

Since the last article about DHL USA situation, nothing came out either in the press or on DHL/Deutsche Post websites about the US operations… We received on Wednesday, May 21, a comment on the latest article about this issue (see References from the Transport Information Group below), telling us that “We will know on May [...]

SNCF/Keolis: short review of recent activities

Below is a review of the year 2007 with several recent contracts that Keolis, a SNCF subsidiary that operates public transportation networks worldwide, won in France and across the world. This article also gives future perspectives for Keolis in 2008 and further…
With a 2007 turnover worth €2,764 million (up from €2,594 million in 2006, +6.6%), [...]

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