Los Angeles Times

Driverless freight trains? This L.A. startup is already testing them

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The Next Web

Beyond wires and batteries: Voltify’s new model for freight rail electrification

Voltify, co-founded by Daphna Langer, is building a three-pillar system of battery-electric locomotive retrofits, dynamic in-motion charging segments, and microgrid energy orchestration to electrify ...
The Conversation

Australia’s freight used to go by train, not truck. Here’s how we can bring back rail – and cut emissions

Until the 1960s, railways dominated freight across every distance bar the shortest. Much freight went by sea, and some by truck. But then trucking grew, and grew, and grew, while rail’s share of ...
Associated Press

Railroads and regulators must address the dangers of long trains, report says

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — As freight trains have grown longer, the U.S. has seen an increase in the number of a type of derailment caused by the forces of railcars pushing and pulling against each other, the ...