This week’s round-up of news from the global urban transport sector. The Dominican Republic’s Minister of the Presidency, José Ignacio Paliza, announced on May 6 that the first nine-station section of ...

EUROPE The European Commission proposed a comprehensive package of three regulations on May 13 designed to simplify the booking of multi-leg rail journeys across Europe. The new rules aim to establish ...

USA: Mid-market utility, power and transport investor Basalt Infrastructure Partners has agreed to acquire track maintenance plant and road-rail vehicle leasing company RELAM from Paceline Equity ...

IRELAND: Transport Infrastructure Ireland has launched the tendering process for the M500 contract to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the planned MetroLink automated metro line. It will ...

National operator DSB is working on a pioneering programme to equip København’s S-bane for fully automated operation without using platform edge barriers. Contracts are due to be let later this year ...

Rail and metro investment is back on the agenda across a swathe of Central and South America. However, as legal specialist Elvira Palomino Alarcón explains, understanding how best to regulate these ...

KAI, SURGE, and HUAWEI Sign Strategic Tripartite MOU to Accelerate 5G+AI Innovation in Indonesia’s Railway System Jakarta, April 15, 2026 – PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) (“KAI”), Indonesia’s ...

PORTUGAL: The European Commission has authorised Metropolitano de Lisboa to move ahead with awarding the contract for Lisboa’s Violet light rail line, but only after a Mota-Engil-led consortium ...

EUROPE: Berlin-based night train start-up Nox Mobility has raised €2m in pre-seed funding to support its plan to create a pan-European overnight network focused on offering private rooms for solo ...

EUROPE: A long-delayed cross-border rail link between Finland and Sweden could launch in the coming months, according to the Finnish government. Minister of Transport and Communications Lulu Ranne ...

SWITZERLAND: Mountain railway operator Gornergrat Bahn has awarded Stadler a SFr30m contract to supply a further four Polaris electric multiple-units for the line from the resort of Zermatt to the ...

USA: Seattle’s Sound Transit has worked with INIT to deploy ‘Tap to Pay’ open payment on its Orca fare system, enabling users of seven light rail, bus and ferry operators in the Puget Sound region to ...