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 ...

AUSTRALIA: The government has announced A$1.75bn of funding for rail freight, but has stopped development of the northern section of the 1 600 km Inland Rail project. This would have allowed the ...

THAILAND: The Rail Technology Research & Development Agency is working on the development of a domestic diesel-electric multiple-unit, RTRDA Chairman Chotchai Charoenngam announced at the Asia Pacific ...

POLAND: Stadler has delivered the first nine of 75 Flirt electric multiple-units ordered by Warszawa area regional train operator Koleje Mazowieckie, with entry into service on routes from the capital ...

ROMANIA: Project promoter Bihor judet (county) signed a contract with the Ministry of Investments & European Projects on April 15 to allocate 1.376bn lei of non-reimbursable co-financing towards the ...

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 ...

GERMANY: International investor John Laing Group has entered the German rolling stock leasing market with a deal to finance 61 Siemens Mobility Mireo Plus B battery-electric multiple-units ordered by ...