Transport
How LA Metro approaches climate change in billion-dollar infrastructure projects
It’s one thing to discuss the effects of climate change on the engineering sector, but to truly understand an issue...
Using virtual reality to ease congestion in a notoriously traffic-heavy tunnel
Drivers slowing down to pass through a Melbourne tunnel have plagued the thoroughfare with bottlenecks. VR experimentation provided a solution.
Brisbane Metro: an innovative, all-electric transport solution
Upgrading Brisbane’s system of busways has involved more than new vehicles or new lanes. The city’s metro project is an...
Why Australia needs to engineer better road safety strategies
According to Engineers Australia member Dr Brett Hughes MIEAust, traffic engineer and road safety researcher, road safety in Australia has...
From feathers to jet packs: the history of personal flying devices
For centuries humans have been enamoured with the idea of flight. Even with aircraft zipping across the planet, humans have...
Engineers predict a Boom in supersonic airline travel
Sydney to Los Angeles in 6 hours and 45 minutes might sound like the stuff of weary travellers’ dreams —...
Engineers are working on wireless charging for electric vehicles
Inspired by the technologies used in NASA’s deep space missions, engineers have pioneered a capacitive wireless charging method that could...
How Norway is building the world’s first full-scale ship tunnel
Boring through a 300-metre-high mountain, a new tunnel will allow ships to navigate more safely through a dangerously exposed part...
Australian research is driving us closer to the cars of the future
A customised electric Renault is helping researchers in Brisbane understand the human-machine interface of automated cars and the challenges they...
How salvage engineers helped move the Ever Given
The giant container ship Ever Given was successfully refloated almost a week after it became lodged in Egypt’s Suez Canal...
