https://xatellite.space/api/files/file/2026_Frontend_Dev_Deckplan.pdf neat work on getting a NeTEx seat plan editor off the ground available if anyone's interested. typescript + vue (the pay is not fantastic but i do this kind of stuff for free so i am not the right person to complain to about […]

Want access to expensive subscription archives of academic papers and other paywalled online material? People often ask me as an academic to share access with them, but there's a better way: active @wikimediafoundation contributors can get The Wikipedia Library […] [Original post on social.coop]

The Swiss are a good example: 1. They think of a sensible fare between each station. 2. Then they double it. 3. Then they give 97% of Swiss citizens a national railcard that halves it back to the number they first thought of. 4. Then they have to invent a plethora of products for e.g. tourists.

RE: https://gruene.social/@jon/116917657474729391 One of my biggest reverse culture shocks after returning to Europe is the widespread ambivalence to constant identity checks, whether it's illegal border control, technically legal border control, companies checking your papers on behalf of the […]

[UK pol] nice to see that manifesto commitments to not join the customs union or reform the bonkers voting system will be respected but an exception is being made for drilling for oil and gas remember: manchesterism is when you have the worst air quality in the country

RE: https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@InseeFr/116927909282067936 i will once again bang the drum saying that people are really really bad at understanding how much their cars cost a "cheap" car can easily cost €10,000 a year in direct costs, depreciation and opportunity cost 1) €10k upfront […]

Another world Vy - Norwegian operator of the Göteborg - Oslo trains - will help you get a ticket if you don’t have one Imagine if SNCF did that!

New map for you all: mean annual PM2.5 weighted by population https://compute.olie.science/expo/?data=pollution/public_satpm_v6gl03_2024_h3_5.arrow&h3precision=false#x=13.7388&y=16.2597&z=1.2276 Stuff that jumped out at me: 1) by global standards the 'western […] [Original post on masto.ai]

Also what SNCF Gares & Connections doesn't want you to know: there's an underground passage at the end of the platforms in Gare de l'Est, marked as emergency exit. Platforms 11-12 even have an old sign to the metro station, I suppose they forgot to remove it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Gare de Lyon yesterday evening at 6pm: when you design the waiting spaces so poorly it quickly crumbles at every disruption. Main hall completely overcrowded, it can take 5 minutes to cross it. People sitting on every possible staircase, along every wall in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Some initial experiments with UK walk-up fares priced per straight-line kilometre between origin and destination for short and long distance journeys short distances […] [Original post on masto.ai]

you've surely heard all the excellent¹ security advice about forcing people to use characters they can barely read and limiting password lengths to 19 characters and disallowing repeated characters and, of course, blocking paste but are you aware how much more […] [Original post on masto.ai]

just took some pictures of the new MNT Pocket Keyboard (small standalone USB-C keyboard with integrated optical trackball and RGB backlight) that's coming to our shop at some point next week. the case is a mix of aluminum (top plate) and Multi Jet Fusion […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://social.v.st/@quixoticgeek/116889271488900950 world first for italy: toilets flushing directly onto solar panels

J'ai attaché un répéteur solaire à une gouttière solide, il fonctionne très bien, mes messages sont enfin reçus 🙂 #meshcore

Being frugal for my trip starting tomorrow 😀 Only 30 rail apps on my phone! #CrossBorderRail

Very big ask, but is anyone coming to #emf2026 from Germany and: - going via the Frankfurt area - has a lot of space - could accommodate something 1 way Size: 80×28×188 cm Weight: 130kg This is a big ask, but if you've rented a van and have space I would be happy to contribute towards that 🙂

🚨 New paper on #cycling #politics: Right-wing Votes Relate to Delays in Bicycle Network Development https://findingspress.org/article/163938-right-wing-votes-relate-to-delays-in-bicycle-network-development

I've just updated the #fahrtle timetable, six months of Transitous updates included 😎 I haven't dug too hard into what is newly available because I like surprises. Same janky link as ever: https://compute.olie.science/fahrtle/ For web map nerds: I also changed the […] [Original post on masto.ai]

[rant] i am getting more and more radicalised against the use of "historic" to mean "anything more than six months ago" > A Virgin Media spokesperson said it had "completely redesigned" its customer service in recent years and addressed the "historic shortfalls" through a number of […]

i finally got round to re-importing transitous data for the first time in six months and 1) it's great to see how much coverage has expanded and 2) hahahaha serbia has more of a regular takt-style timetable than most of france trains only […] [Original post on masto.ai]

Oh deer. An animal strike makes my trip rather Silly If you can bear the puns, there is a serious point here! #CrossBorderRail #ticketing #Taktfahrplan https://jonworth.eu/oh-deer-an-animal-strike-makes-my-trip-rather-silly/

If your station doesn’t have space for ticket barriers… maybe don’t install ticket barriers? Because if you do you get a stupid mess Today‘s amazing public transport consultancy brought to you direct and free on Mastodon

@stefanlindbohm it looks like your trenitalia bookings are down again :( https://www.railfinder.eu/search/trips/new?add=MjMwOSw1MDMsMjAyNi0wNy0xNCwyODlmMjY4OWEwMTc&ir=&p=A (no rush here i was just curious about what routes you'd offer)

"largest data scrapers ever to have existed get upset when people scrape their data" continues to be one of my favourite genres of article https://app.ft.com/content/ad033063-60f9-4c0c-8d8a-9193a83e6f60 (£) (i am generally in favour of data scraping so long as you don't take the piss with […]

@bovine3dom We have now fixed coach groups in our journey planner, so we’re ready for your next emergency vacation to Sicily 😅

Today in #CrossBorderRail, 1h50 delay from Munich to Zurich... The train was there on time but SBB staff was missing so we left Munich 1h late (thankfully the driver opened us the train so we could wait sitting with air conditioning). But then we accumulated […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

more progress on my uniform population projection maps. have fixed the holes in the previous ones this is showing population density as experienced by people - every square is approx 150k people, and the colour of that square tells you the density they live at […] [Original post on masto.ai]

i get that graphics cards have a bad reputation around here at the moment but they're really very cool i had a solver that was taking 7 hours to finish on CPU bashed my head against cuda for a few hours and now it runs on the GPU and takes 15 minutes (ps: please someone start a proper […]

I asked the DSB CEO about the standardisation issue. Denmark is probably the worst EU country for type approval for trains imho. And he flatly denied it was a Danish problem and blamed the EU Agency. Ridiculous. #CrossBorderRail

Ah 👏 Well effing done, Norrtåg! Between 2nd and 3rd August, the timetables for Haparanda - Boden are changed Originally Haparanda 07:21 - 08:48 Boden From 3 August Haparanda 07:40 - 09:08 Boden Which means the 09:11 Boden - Umeå is likely missed... 😡 #CrossBorderRail

‘Ik zie de meest belachelijke situaties op het Europese spoor’ FD heeft me een paar weken geleden onderweg naar Maastricht geïnterviewd. Het interview is nu verschenen. https://fd.nl/economie/1600652/treinexpert-ik-zie-de-meest-belachelijke-situaties-op-het-europese-spoor #CrossBorderRail

Nouvelle Aquitaine cancelling ALL TER trains 10:00-18:00 due to the heat https://bahnblogstelle.com/256787/sncf-zugverkehr-in-westfrankreich-wird-wegen-hitze-teils-eingestellt/ First, given heatwaves are more and more common, why aren’t railways adjusting? Second, within reason people need to […]

@stefanlindbohm https://railfinder.eu just saved my skin - ÖBB for whatever reason said a trenitalia intercity (giorno) reservation i needed was unavailable (rather than sold out) but you managed to sell it to me just fine. thanks! i was inexplicably not logged in, though, and didn't notice 🤷‍♂️

If you have tried understanding NeTEx or maybe already know enough to point out where I am wrong, I’d appreciate any feedback on my first draft below! I think it is mostly correct, but I can’t yet guarantee it :) https://gist.github.com/stefanlindbohm/58d11afbb9af2d5ec88263f62322caaa

@stefanlindbohm @transitous Remark : I went over for swimming but the location where it suggests to swim from Germany to Luxembourg is in a no-swimming zone. In fact, travelers need to walk down the Moselle for 300 more meters where swimming is permitted again […] [Original post on zug.network]

Best of international travels : To get to my destination from Elsàss to somewhere in Lëtzebuerg, there are plenty of different options. Depending on the day and time, they involve : - :sncf: TER trains - :sncf: TGV/Ouigo trains - :db: regional/mainline trains - :vrn: & :saarvv: local busses […]

Do you work for a public transport company in Europe (or anywhere else in the world for that matter)? The EU wants to hear from you! As part of a project to create a unified standard for public transport ticketing across Europe, allowing a single ticket to be sold from anywhere to anywhere […]

first for me in Switzerland: guard comes along and checks tickets. wearily asks a group of tourists for the Halbtax¹ ... but it was fine! they had perfectly valid tickets! (they had already paid the excess on an earlier service and could show the supplement) 1: the ticket machines assume you […]

my uniform population cartograms are coming on nicely this one shows population density (blue = dense, red = sparse) in africa, and because it's a uniform population projection you can see the population density as experienced by people rather than land i love how […] [Original post on masto.ai]

@wnd nice example in the wild for you why putting harmless data behind a login-wall is daft https://github.com/trainline-eu/stations/issues/1522#issuecomment-4721018186 it makes it opaque to google (and if you want to be hip and cool with the powers that be, ai agents) and so dude who works for […]

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/116742783467288279 This takes me back my PhD - many, many small heterogeneous compute units beat fewer standardise, server ones, provided you can get the work to them, in the right form

OK, so from the Paris - Montbard TGV on the way home, a few conclusions 1) A full write up of today's 30 years TGV Bruxelles - France event will be in my newsletter next week 2) Of the 4 main people there, FR and BE ministers Tabarot and Crucke come across as bullshitters - they know a few […]

I have ended up with an embarrassment of spare interrail days so I'm having an emergency holiday to use them all up Leg 1 & 2: Nice - > Ventimiglia, Ventimiglia -> Genoa This line never gets old. Has to be one of the most spectacular coastal routes in the world. 1/

Finally trying some easy recipes from this lighthearted bilingual Arabic-English cookbook that friends of mine helped make, based on a lockdown-era series of home cooking videos by Arab artists: https://www.youtube.com/@lentil_space8341?si=kldfycNaDhqlHWO2 As […] [Original post on piaille.fr]

[slop] RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@digitaleu/116726359549912399 the european commission publicising a voluntary labelling scheme for AI generated content with unlabelled AI generated content is an extremely good joke top marks

i fixed a bug that had stopped me merging a PR for six years today the root cause: ```js Number(" ") === 0 ``` Javascript: "there's always more footguns to find!™"

As part of 'Making Tax Digital' the UK will soon force people to use proprietary software to file certain types of tax return. If you disagree, think people should have control over their data, that HMRC alone should be in charge of HMRC's job, that you shouldn't have to pay random companies […]

as an inveterate contrarian i am getting annoyed by both sides of the "data centres in space" debate there is no convection in space so you need to cool by radiation instead so you need a really big radiator that is always in shade but you also need really big solar panels that are always in […]

RE: https://me.dm/@anildash/116484490434082672 https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey/blob/main/LICENSE sigh. why are creatives so often opposed to other people earning money from their work? there seems to be a real cultural disconnect between coders and artists. every time i see a new […]