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Expansion of Electrified Rail Network

De-carbonising passenger and freight transport by 2050 is a significant challenge to the energy and transport industry, power generation and distribution companies, and civil engineering professionals at large. Expansion of the electrified rail network can contribute to this.....

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  • Last updated: 14 JULY 2011

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  • Energy , Transport

Fifty years of motorways: how did we get here and where should we go next?

Professor David Bayliss outlines the development of the main road system in Britain over the past fifty years andsets out the challenges of providing a fit-for-purpose national road network. ICE/TRF Prestige Lecture 2008.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Transport

The challenges and opportunities for the freight industry from 2014 to 2025 and beyond

Lord Tony Berkeley provides a wide-ranging review of the future opportunities and challenges for national and international freight services in the UK. ICE/Faber Maunsell Prestige Lecture 2009.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Transport

Modernising our motorways - managing a key national asset

Graham Dalton, Chief Executive, Highways Agency outlines the current challenges facing the motorway and trunk road network and considers some of the possible developments for our motorways in the future. ICE/Scott Wilson Transport Lecture 2009.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Transport

Meeting growing transport needs in an age of austerity

Professor Stephen Glaister, Director of the RAC Foundation, challenges the government as to how it will respond toincreasing demands on an already congested road and railway system and sets out his views as to howEngalnd's roads might be paid in an era of austerity. ICE/TRF Fellows Lecture 2010.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 11 JULY 2011

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  • Transport

High speed rail: a viable alternative to shorthaul flights

Theresa Villiers MP sets out the case for a £20bn high speed rail link between London, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham, which could replace up to 63,200 flights a year and generate economic benefits to the value of £60bn. ICE/Scott Wilson Transport Lecture 2008.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 8 JULY 2011

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  • Transport

Generation and alleviation of sonic booms from railway tunnels

Eur Ing Alan Vardy looks at the strong pressure waves caused as trains enter railway tunnels at high speeds and the lack of consensus about what pressure levels canbe regarded as acceptable.He also looks at sonic booms caused by high speeds and how potential discomfort might be reduced.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 8 JULY 2011

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  • Transport

Challenges facing Network Rail and the rail industry

Iain Coucher, Chief Executive, Network Rail, draws on his experience in the transport sector and discusses the challenges facing Network Rail. ICE/Scott Wilson Transport Lecture 2007.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 8 JULY 2011

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  • Transport

City regions - contributing to the future prosperity of the UK

Sir Howard Bernstein, Chief Executive of Manchester City Council, sets out his vision of what the new governance arrangements for city regions might achieve and to what extent they will change the economic geography of the UK. ICE/Faber Maunsell Prestige Lecture 2008.

  • Document type: Recorded lecture
  • Last updated: 8 JULY 2011

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  • Municipal engineering , Transport

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