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[Written Question] Department for Transport: Public Relations

Question by: Jerome Mayhew Answering Body: Department for Transport Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the answer of 27 April 2026 to Question 127540 on Network Rail: Public Relations, whether the (a) Office of Rail and Road, (b) Great British Railways and (c) DFT Operator hires external (i) pu

Irish Rail writes down €50M after train IT project goes off the rails

Irish Rail has written off €50 million on a troubled train traffic management system, as the state-owned operator loses confidence in its successful rollout across the national rail network. The project, intended to modernise train movements, has suffered years of delays and technical issues, becoming another example of costly public sector IT failures. Lawmakers have expressed significant concern over the project's governance and the expenditure of public funds.

[Written Question] Cumbrian Coast Line: Tunnels

Question by: Joe Robertson Answering Body: Department for Transport Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 20 May 2026 to Question 883 on Cumbrian Coast Line: Tunnels, when the modelling work being undertaken by Network Rail and the Mining Remediation Authority to assess the impact of the l

RAILS: Verification-Native Clearing For Agentic Commerce

arXiv:2606.08790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous agents negotiate, purchase, deploy code, and move funds, but no neutral mechanism determines whether they met their delegated obligation, who is responsible when they did not, or which settlement action follows. This is the agentic clearing problem. Tool protocols (MCP), inter-agent communication (A2A), payment rails (x402), mandate and network agent protocols (AP2, Visa, Mastercard), and settlement-risk standards each assume that...

GROSS: German Rail Open-Source SUMO Scenario

Announce Type: new Abstract: Microscopic simulation enables reproducible evaluation in intelligent transportation systems, yet most open SUMO scenarios and toolchains remain road-traffic centric, leaving rail underrepresented despite its importance for public transport and its sensitivity to network-wide disruptions. We present the German Rail Open-Source Scenario (GROSS), an open pipeline that combines OpenStreetMap railway infrastructure with GTFS schedules to generate nation-scale rail...

Lack of clarity on JB rail plans heightens bottleneck fears ahead of RTS Link launch

Lack of clarity on JB rail plans heightens bottleneck fears ahead of RTS Link launch The issue of public transport infrastructure and congestion will likely be on the minds of voters ahead of the upcoming Johor state elections, analysts say. At the recent Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) convention in Johor Bahru, Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke used his speech to highlight the federal government's achievements in the southern state ahead of an expected heated election season. Loke, who is...

Giuliani: WC security challenge 'unprecedented'

This summer's World Cup will pose an unprecedented security challenge due to its size and scope, but the nation's law enforcement is "leaning in," Andrew Giuliani, executive director of the White House FIFA World Cup 2026 Task Force, told ESPN in an interview. "This entire country's police force is leaning in," he said. "It is an unbelievable problem set when I think about what local law enforcement is going to have to go over this 40-day stretch.

India’s bullet train project: Nine years later, is the dream finally nearing reality?

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laid the foundation stone for India’s first bullet train project in Ahmedabad in September 2017, the event was presented as more than just the launch of a railway corridor. It was pitched as India’s first major step into the world of high-speed rail — a technology long associated with countries like Japan, China and France. Nearly nine years later, the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR) corridor remains...

Portsmouth's wartime Railwaywomen: Postcard documents women who kept railways running during WWI

Portsmouth's wartime Railwaywomen: Postcard documents women who kept railways running during WWI Gaby Clark Scientific Editor Andrew Zinin Lead Editor A newly discovered photographic postcard showing women who kept Portsmouth's railways running during the First World War has been revealed by a researcher at the University of Portsmouth—and he is appealing to local people to help identify those in the image. The postcard, found by Dr. Mike Esbester from the University of Portsmouth's School...