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This is a workspace to collect information about lightrail that could be useful across multiple implementations.

General inspiration links
 * Tram
 * Callipedia Light Rail
 * Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium is hosting the 2nd Annual Smart Rail Technology Conference - November 30th - December 1st, 2021
 * Light Rail | International Railway Journal
 * Human Transit - The professional blog of public transit consultant Jarrett Walker. in particular, this post: Streetcars - an Inconvenient Truth
 * We can’t build our way out of the environmental crisis - 2021/09/01 George Monbiot in the Guardian - 8 rules, "greener infrastructure will produce a greener outcome only if it’s accompanied by the deliberate retirement of existing infrastructure", "We need to develop not only new railways and tramlines and wind farms and power lines, but a new way of life."
 * The renaissance of tramways and urban redevelopment in France - 2017 research paper
 * This Youtube video talks about urban noise sources and makes arguments for dedicated tramway/bike areas. It even mentions trams running over grass resulting in quieter service toward the end. "Grassy tram tracks seem to have started in France but are now used everywhere suitable and can even be retrofitted on existing trackage not shared with rubber-tired vehicles." - P Bowman
 * PHOTOS: Europe’s Grass-Lined Green Railways = Good Urban Design

Resources about:
 * Rolling stock
 * Alstom


 * Technologies
 * Surface powered trams

Tools

 * GIS
 * software - QGIS
 * QGIS plugin sdna looks very promising according to its homepage and manual
 * data
 * City of Peterborough
 * Census Canada


 * Modelling
 * AnyRail and Trainplayer - ran into limits of trial version quickly
 * XTrackCAD - promising - using Z scale can make a full model of city with image backdrop. Can make custom cars and run them on track. Learned switching is manual. Wondering if control elements can be extended to be function in digital model instead of placeholders for model parts.
 * TRANUS - is a QGIS plugin for land use activities including transportation systems.
 * Also checking out the Software page on the Digital Command and Control wiki
 * For drawing street profiles online Streetnet

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