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New gadgets hope to hush Mumbai's incessant honking A handful of fed-up residents in one of the world's noisiest cities have taken on a daunting challenge: persuading Indian drivers to stop honking their car horns.
30 March 2014
©Yaroslav Radlovsky Almaty commuters pay broken keys for bus fare Cunning commuters would use anything but money to pay for a bus fare in Almaty.
29 March 2014
Polluted Paris forces thousands of cars off the road Thousands of cars will be banned from Parisian roads on Monday as the city tries to curb dangerous pollution levels by introducing alternate driving days for the first time in nearly two decades.
17 March 2014
Paris makes public transport free to tackle severe pollution Paris authorities said Thursday they would make public transport free for three days to encourage drivers to leave their vehicles behind due to severe pollution caused by unusually warm weather.
14 March 2014
Photo courtesy of nur.kz Astana to start constructing BRT system in June 2014 Astana will start constructing its Bus Rapid Transport system in June 2014.
24 February 2014
Photo courtesy of  vulcanpost.com Philippine capital braces for traffic nightmare Residents of the Philippine capital got the first taste Monday of a traffic nightmare that will likely worsen and drag on for four years.
17 February 2014
48-hour strike begins on London Underground Workers on London's Underground train system kicked off a 48-hour strike at 9:00 pm (2100 GMT) on Tuesday, threatening chaos for commuters on Wednesday and Thursday.
05 February 2014
Photo © Marat Abilov Astana to reinvent transport infrastructure by 2017 In three years, a new train station and two bus stations will be completed and put into service in Astana.
30 January 2014
China's Baidu paints New Year travel map from mobiles Pale blue, fibre-optic-like lines linking dots in an outline of China emerging from darkness -- technology giant Baidu has launched an astronomical chart-style image of the country's New Year travels.
29 January 2014
©Reuters/Christinne Muschi Bombardier to expand into Kazakhstan market Bombardier, a Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company, plans to expand into the Kazakhstan market.
27 January 2014
Photo courtesy of sg.news.yahoo.com British expat leaves job after Singapore 'poor people' remark A Singapore-based British wealth adviser who set off a firestorm by publicly insulting Singaporeans who have to rely on public transport has "parted ways" with his former employer, the firm said Saturday.
25 January 2014
©Reuters Kazakhstan should develop oil and gas transport infrastructure: IEA Executive Director Kazakhstan should develop oil and gas transport infrastructure and take a hard stance of pricing talks in the region: Maria van der Hoeven.
21 January 2014
Photo a courtesy of Tengrinews Kazakh-Iran economic and trade cooperation to ease tension in the region Iranian Deputy Minister Valiola Afkhami visited Astana to meet with his Kazakhstani counterpart at the 3rd sitting of the Kazakh-Iranian Working Group on Trade and Economic Cooperation.
11 January 2014
©Marat Abilov 350 buses to be equipped with wheelchair lifts 350 public buses are going to be equipped with wheelchair lifts in Astana.
28 December 2013
Almaty's subway awards. ©Alisher Akhmetov European Society for Quality Research awards Almaty Subway again Almaty Subway has won another award from the European Society for Quality Research (ESQR).
27 December 2013
Talgat Yermegiyayev. Photo courtesy of ortcom.kz Yermegiyayev speaks of Bus Rapid Transit cost The head of Astana EXPO-2017 National Company Talgat Yermegiyayev has commented on the cost of Bus Rapid Transit for Astana.
10 December 2013
©Yaroslav Radlovsky 60% of Almaty public transport to become ecologically-friendly in Q1 2014 60% of public transport will become ecologically friendly by the end of the 1st quarter of 2014 in Almaty, Mayor Akhmetzhan Yessimov said.
03 December 2013
The prices of gasoline, ethanol and diesel fuel are shown at a gas station at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro November 29, 2013.©Reuters/Ricardo Moraes Despite rising demand, Brazil ethanol sector struggles Hobbled by rising production costs and low prices, Brazil's ethanol sector is in crisis, with many sugar mills closing despite rising demand.
01 December 2013
 Light Rail Transport (LRT). Photo courtesy of vagons.tramvaj.ru No Light Rail Transport for Astana Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev believes that Light Rail Transport project by French Alstom is overly expensive for Astana, so the city will get a bus rapid transit network instead.
28 November 2013
Marcelo Odebrecht, CEO of Brazilian construction group Odebrecht. ©Reuters/Enrique Castro-Mendivil Odebrecht wins auction for part of key Brazil highway Engineering giant Odebrecht on Wednesday won the right to operate a 855-kilometer (534-mile) stretch of highway in Brazil's key central grain-producing region of Mato Grosso, authorities said.
28 November 2013
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