Near Field Communication development in France

Near Field Communication or NFC is a technology that has a great potential when associated with cellphones… In Asia, many transit systems adopted this technology and implemented it to ease the access to services related to transit trips, and mostly to intermodal transit trips. The last European Congress on Mobility, held early June in Paris, [...]

Metro, bus, tramway, commuter rail and now… Voguéo!

Paris launch a waterways transit service
Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë and Jean-Paul Huchon, President of Paris-Ile de France regional Government innaugurated the new waterways transit service Voguéo on Saturday, June 28, 2008.
Operated by RATP, this new service will link Maisons-Alfort in the Val-de-Marne Département to Austerlitz train station inside Paris city (for more details, please see [...]

Cargo Rail Express: does it ring a bell?

Roissy Carex, a High-Speed Freight Rail project
Since 1999, a group of companies settled on the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport platform have been thinking and working together to set up a high speed freight rail service. From this idea came a struture, involving several partners:

Public entities: Roissy Development (Economic Development Agency of Roissy Porte de [...]

In brief: FedEx develops its European hubs

FedEx, worldwide leader in express freight and packages transportation, will finance an extension of its infrastructures based in Paris Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport (Roissy-CDG). This site is the most important package sorting warehouse in France for FedEx and employs around 1,800 people of about 2,500 total in France.
FedEx European hub in will be expanded to [...]

Are environmentally friendly measures financially unsustainable?

Reading Les Echos today makes me rise this question… The French Government implemented a system of tax/subsidy (bonus-malus écologique aka écopastille), that is applied to new cars’ buyers: the system is quite simple, if people buy a car that has a low gas consumption and thus low emissions, the buyer gets a refund/subsidy and if [...]

Study release: Deutsche Bahn, Implementing a Successful Strategy

Transport Expertise today released a new study “Deutsche Bahn, Implementing a Successful Strategy”. Published in English, 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.
The Deutsche Bahn (DB) has been a pace maker on the European rail market. After many [...]

Air freight: Air France and China Southern will partner

Air France-KLM and China Southern, the biggest Chinese airline (by the size of its fleet, the network, and the number of passengers transported) recently announced they would partner and create a joint-venture to operate freight aircrafts. If both companies get the needed authorisations, the deal could be concluded by the end of 2008.
The newly formed [...]

STX Shipbuilding will conceive a 22,000 TEUs ship!

Emma Maersk ships are presently the biggest containerships in the world, carrying up to 13,000 TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit)… Not for long! The South Korean Group STX Shipbuilding is working on the design of a 22,000 TEUs cargo… The company, which recently took over 39.2% of Aker Yards capital (European shipbuilder), also announced it will [...]

Transport Expertise at the 3rd European Road Congress

Transport Expertise will attend the 3rd European Road Congress on June 25, 2008 in Brussels. For more information about this event, please visit the European Union Road Federation website: http://www.irfnet.eu/en/3rd-european-road-congress/
If you want to meet with a Transport Expertise representative during this event, please contact us and we will set up a meeting on site.
3rd European [...]

In brief: High Speed Rail will invade Poland by 2020

Polish Government recently announced that the country will have its first high-speed rail line by 2020. The announcement was made during a French-Polish conference about intercity and urban rail transport. Infrastructures Minister Cezary Grabarczyk declared that this first project would link the cities of Warsaw, Poznan, and Wroclaw (west of the country). A high-speed rail [...]

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