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• How European suppliers guarantee vehicle reliability - transit procurement is more performance-based than lowest-cost - In Transit - Column - Brief Article 

  Rail transit vehicle procurement in the U.S., as as complicated as it gets, is usually governed by one overriding principle: The lowest bidder gets...

  Railway Age, 04/01/98 by William C. Vantuomo · More from publication

• High speed rail: finally on a fast track - includes related article - Cover Story 

  Details of the planned late-1999 startup of all-electric high speed Boston-New York-Washington, DC services are provided. They promise 3-hour trips...

  Railway Age, 04/01/98 by William C. Vantuomo · More from publication

• CBTC: high stakes, high drama - testing of communications-based train control system by New York city Transit - Cover Story 

  Billions of dollars of equipment and implementation contracts are riding on leader and follower CBTC testing on two short sections of New York City...

  Railway Age, 04/01/98 by William C. Vantuomo · More from publication

• Persuasive arguments for rail transit - from the automotive press - Feb. '98 Car and Driver editorial on gasoline consumption, taxation - In Transit - Column - Brief Article 

  This magazine recently has tried to debunk some of the anti-rail rhetoric that often comes from transportation think-tanks, and others whose...

  Railway Age, 03/01/98 by William C. Vantuomo · More from publication

• A full-court press on passenger safety - federal, trade association action 

  New standards are taking shape through cooperative efforts involving APTA's Passenger Rail Equipment Safety Standards (PRESS) Task Force, FRA,...

  Railway Age, 03/01/98 by William C. Vantuomo · More from publication

• Amtrak: labor, Congress react as administration tries a bait-and-switch - Amtrak funding politics - In Transit - Column - Brief Article 

  Just when you thought Just when you thought Amtrak had finally acquired more-solid footing, along comes the White House Office of Management...

  Railway Age, 02/01/98 by William C. Vantuomo · More from publication

• Transit peers discuss the hows and whys of CBTC 

  The Intl. Conference on Communications-Based Train Control gathered experts in the procurement, design, maintenance, and peer review of new transit...

  Railway Age, 06/01/97 by William C. Vantuomo · More from publication

• New York City: a high-tech ride into the 21st century 

  The centerpiece of the MTA's renovation is a fleet of 1,080 new Bombardier R142 subway cars, costing $1.45 billion. Details about the complex...

  Railway Age, 06/01/97 by William C. Vantuomo · More from publication

• Debunking the 'road gang': rail transit responds 

  The Reason Foundation's paper 'Ten Transit Myths,' excerpted in Railway Age's Feb '97 issue, provoked outrage from Railway Age readers. The costs...

  Railway Age, 04/01/97 by William C. Vantuomo · More from publication

• Clinton clouds the high speed picture 

  High speed advocates complain that the Clinton budget plan includes far too little for research and development. They fear that Amtrak's Northeast...

  Railway Age, 04/01/97 by William C. Vantuomo · More from publication