Transport

Train travel is 200 years old. In two centuries it has forged economies, created mass tourism, standardised time itself, and made fish and chips a national cuisine. But what’s its future?

In Palla, Deutsche Bahn will have their first female CEO and her appointment has raised eyebrows

South Africa is very comfortable with chaos, especially on the roads

No 10 talks about asylum seekers, hotels and flags, but the bread-and-butter issues are called that for a reason

Wuppertal, in western Germany, is famous for having the world’s oldest suspension railway – with one very large passenger

Elon Musk’s DOGE tried to cut wasteful US government spending, but his car company would benefit from the same plan. First target: his own pay packet

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

E-bikes are changing life in the city – but not in the way right wing protesters imagine

How São Paulo’s ‘Big Worm’ went from urban scar to public space – and what it tells us about city futures

Three decades ago, Beijing decided it was going to become the future of auto manufacturing. How did they do it?

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

Provence conjures up images of lavender fields and honey-coloured villages… but the reality of the périphérique is somewhat different

Today, highway robbery is common on Spanish motorways

The German racing driver’s memorial site is in a fitting location, close to a fast-paced autobahn

It’s being outdone by China and has failed to transition to electric vehicles. Can the big manufacturers on the continent go into overdrive? Or are they heading for a crash?

Why has No.10 been so swift to wield the axe now when the PM has known about her conviction for years?

The city’s improved cycling infrastructure has caused e-bike sales to shoot up. So, too, have thefts

Knowing which language to speak to strangers in Brussels is a taxing task

Sooner or later, a British government will be forced to restart HS2. It should have been this one

Despite their morbid history, today Europe's railways bring our cultures closer together

The ever-escalating frequency of strikes is taking its toll on our efficiency and economy

Their sentiment reflects a massive frustration with the government felt by most Germans

The high speed rail plan was cancelled with promises that new projects would replace it. As yet, there is no plan

The green party has ambitions to make Bergen ‘cruise-free’ by 2027 but this will be no mean feat

Beloved of celebrities, the SS Normandie was the fastest, most beautiful ocean-going liner of them all – yet it was doomed from the start

The problem with Italy’s transport isn’t its bridges, but its roads, trains and green infrastructure – or rather lack of

In recent years, Paris has experienced a cycling boom, but this has brought with it its own set of challenges

Full of intriguing quirks and anecdotes, Andrew Martin’s Metropolitain is nothing short of a love letter to a subterranean railway

While the rest of Europe has an efficient rail service, the UK is only playing at it