By Tajud Din, Research Fellow in Hydrogen Traction. Energy and environmental sustainability in urban rail transport have gained significant attention in recent years. The UK government has pledged to remove all diesel-only trains by 2040, with about 29% of the current train fleets running solely on diesel fuel. One option to achieve this ambitious goal … Continue reading “Evaluation and optimisation of hybrid railway vehicles traction system”
Month: September 2023
Cutting Train Carbon from Cradle to Grave
By Stephen Kent, Teaching / Research Fellow at BCRRE. So how much carbon dioxide is a train responsible from the time it’s manufactured to the time it’s disposed of at the end of its life? And how can the choices that those procuring trains and designing trains affect this? These are two key questions that … Continue reading “Cutting Train Carbon from Cradle to Grave”