Light rail - challenging the next millennium

When I was a kid, the next millennium seemed a long way off. My perceptions of the 21st century were the same as the popular newspapers and magazines of the time - predicting a life full of domestic household robots and personal interspace transporters. But here we are just three years out from 2000, and I have to say there is a distinct lack of lawn-mowing, bed-making robots around. And even if they do exist, I haven't noticed them making life at the Hamilton house any more convenient. Certainly there have been a multitude of scientific breakthroughs and technological advances. But it's fair to say that the future we envisaged is not the future we actually face. In fact, I would argue that it is not we who are challenging the next millennium, but the next millennium which is challenging us. And nowhere is this more marked than in the area of transport. As we approach the 21st century, it is us - the engineers, the transport providers and operators - who are being asked to help overcome the problems of the past and meet the demands of the present. We are the ones being challenged to help achieve the community's broader social goals, such as less pollution, less congestion, and a better quality of life. I believe the industry is already demonstrating its capacity to meet the challenge in many, many ways. Lets look at two of the most serious challenges we face - and how light rail is meeting those challenges.

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• Authors:
  • Hamilton I
• Conference:
  • Permanent Way Institution (PWI) NSW 1997 Annual Convention: Challenging the Next Millennium
• Publication Date: 1997

Media Info

• Pagination: 8p. ; PDF
• Monograph Title: Permanent Way Institution (PWI) NSW, 1997 annual convention

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Light rail transit
• ATRI Terms: Change; Light rail transport

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01711432
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 19 2019 2:24PM