Affairs / Transport
2012 forecast: transport
Africa's first high-speed rail network, Cambodia's "bamboo" railway upgrade and China's ambitious aviation plans.
- 613 results for transport
Business / Aviation
Star board
Jetstar, a low-cost offshoot of Qantas, has launched not only itself but a new business model, offering acceptable levels of comfort at prices far below those of rival business classes. Now, the airline plans to expand its…
Affairs / Transport
Q & A: Ray LaHood
The US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has the task of getting the nation on to high-speed rail and persuading the country's airlines to up their game. In Washington he tells our editor, Andrew Tuck, why it's not too…
Affairs / Transport
Monocolumn
Monday 13 June
Quality of life series – Lisbon’s train pain
As Portugal’s new prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho prepares to take over as the country’s chief of damage limitation, ambitious plans originally conceived by ex-PM José Sócrates to revamp Lisbon’s transport infrastructure…
Affairs / Transport
Monocolumn
Saturday 19 December
Trains, planes and terror alerts
Both rail and air operators are upping the ante in the coming months in a bid to lure passengers onto the lucrative route between Moscow and St Petersburg.
Business / Transport
Track record
Switzerland’s reputation for being the most efficient country in the world is not undeserved: SBB, the state-controlled railways, has a 96 per cent punctuality rate and slick service.
Affairs / Transport
Europe briefing
Turkish Military Academy, rebranding Italy and Angela Merkel's official transport of choice.
Business / Transport
Cabin fever
On 18 March Singapore Airlines (SIA) introduced a second scheduled route to fly the new Airbus A380, this time from Singapore to London Heathrow. It has upped the ante with inflight amenities and a new best-in-business…
Business / Transport
Sending out an SAS
Founded in 1925, Copenhagen Airport – or CPH – is one of the best designed and most efficient in Europe. The airport is the largest in Scandinavia and the hub for carrier SAS. Here, we look at all the companies needed to…
Business / Transport
World Travel Catering Expo
Staying comfortable in-flight means big business at Hamburg’s World Travel Catering and Onboard Services Expo. Join Monocle as we pay a flying visit.
Business / Transport
Contain yourself
The Nieuwe Waterweg in Rotterdam is Europe’s main port and the world’s fifth-largest, employing 58,000 people. The Europe Container Terminal (ECT), owned by Hong Kong-based Hutchinson Port Holdings Group, was built here in…
Edits / Transport
Monocle Transport Survey 2012
Monocle's third annual transport survey is here with a collection of the design, engineering and infrastructure solutions that are shaping the skies, roads and rails near you. Our editors have taken a tour of the transport…
Affairs / Transport
Monocolumn
Sunday 9 October
The Italian yacht industry’s wave of good fortune
Genoa’s 51st Salone Nautico Internazionale yacht show closed yesterday under less than perfect sailing conditions with news of the recent downgrade of both Italy’s credit rating and the country’s major banks as the nation…
Affairs / Transport
Monocolumn
Thursday 9 December
Reckless Lebanese drivers
It took the death of 17-year-old Talal Kassem, a prominent Lebanese banker’s grandson run over by a speeding car on his way to school, to get the Lebanese to demand more safety on their notoriously dangerous roads.
Affairs / Transport
Monocolumn
Sunday 4 April
Rethinking public transport
Half three on a Friday afternoon and it’s the same old story in São Paulo.
Business / Transport
Aircraft procedure
Despite over 30 years in Australia’s public health sector, Greg Rochford experienced some turbulence when he became CEO of the country’s iconic Royal Flying Doctor Service. One year on, he’s gaining altitude.
Edits / Transport
Dream a little dream
In the second of our series on niche airlines, we take a trip on one of two planes – one red, one blue – run by the tiny, but ambitious, Fuji Dream Airlines.
Affairs / Transport
Oceania Briefing
Australia heads into a housing bubble, while in Christchurch the nightlife heads to the suburbs. Plus, we speak to the man in charge of rebuilding post-earthquake New Zealand.
Affairs / Transport
Africa/Middle East briefing
The lavish motorcade of Kenya's president, the new jet-set of Nigeria, and an old banknote for West Africa returns.
Affairs / Transport
Briefing Asia
Life's is a long drag for Asian men, Japan's underground police plan, and China helps Laos get on the right track.