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ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: Rome unveils 'museum' metro station packed with hundreds of ancient artefacts found during construction. THE LONDON SUNDAY TIMES (06/05/2017), THE TELEGRAPH, U.K. (05/05/2017), & Prof. Filippo Lambertucci, ROMA METRO C - Procedia Engineering 165 (2016), 104 – 113 [Science Direct 2017]. PDF, 1-10, in ENGLISH.
1). ROME - Museum pieces distract Roman commuters - Passengers at San Giovanni station can view artefacts dug up during its construction. THE LONDON SUNDAY TIMES (06/05/2017).
Frustrated by the constant discovery of ancient artefacts as it digs its new underground rail line, the city of Rome has decided to take advantage of the difficulty and turn its newest underground station into an archaeological museum.
Commuters catching high-tech driverless trains at San Giovanni station will file past glass cases containing 2,000-year-old amphorae, oil lamps, jewellery and irrigation pipes, all part of an vast haul of 40,000 artefacts dug up during its construction.
“The moment you go down the steps you go back in time,” said Francesco Prosperetti, Rome’s archaeological superintendent, during a visit to the €50 million station yesterday. As they descend into the station, commuters will see panels indicating the depth they are at, and the historical period to which it corresponds.
At 14m, they are level with the third century AD, when the area was just outside Rome’s new city walls and all buildings were levelled to prevent enemies creeping up on the city. “Instead the neighbourhood was used for burials,” said Rosella Rea, the city official who set up the museum.
At 19m, experts found peach stones — which are on display — dating from the first century AD, when the area had imported the first peach trees from Persia to grow on a farm feeding the imperial city. By the time they reach the platforms, commuters are level with the arrival of Neanderthals in Europe.
It is hoped that the museum will help commuters forget the six-year delay opening the station, as well as the distinct possibility that some stops down the line in the heart of Rome may never open, thanks to a mix of cost overruns, bad management and archaeology. The C line’s next station is due to open in 2021, but a huge ancient Roman barracks has been unearthed on the site.
Ms Rea said that locals were happy with the new station-museum. “We had 11,000 come in for an open day recently, similar to the numbers we get at the Colosseum,” she said. All that is missing are the trains, which are due to begin running in the autumn.
FONTE | SOURCE:
-- THE LONDON SUNDAY TIMES (06/05/2017).
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/museum-pieces-distract-roman-c...
2). ROME - Rome unveils 'museum' metro station packed with hundreds of ancient artefacts found during construction. THE TELELGRAPH, U.K. (05/05/2017)
ROME - or Romans, the daily commute will never be the same again. The city on Friday unveiled a brand new underground station that boasts a trove of archeological treasures that were found during its construction.
They range from iron spearheads and gold coins decorated with emperors’ heads to a delicate perfume bottle made from turquoise glass and marble statues of scantily-clad nymphs.
There are giant amphorae, bronze fish hooks from an ancient Roman fish farm, the remains of a first century BC woven basket and even a collection of 2,000 year old peach stones, from when the area was a rich farming estate providing food for the imperial elite.
They are all displayed in softly-lit glass-fronted panels throughout San Giovanni metro station, located a couple of hundred yards from the grand papal basilica of St John in Lateran and close to the capital’s historic centre.
As passengers descend the station’s stairways, they will travel back in time, from the Middle Ages to Imperial Rome and right back to Republican Rome. The deeper they get, the further back in history they go.
On the station’s walls, key dates in the history of the city are marked, from the building of defensive walls by the Emperor Aurelius in the third century AD to the sacking of the city by the Vandals in 455 AD and the end of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD.
Down at the bottom of the shiny new station, where trains will arrive, passengers will find themselves back in the Pleistocene age, at a depth of 100ft beneath ground level. “It’s a sort of time machine – the further down you go in the station, the further you reach back into the history of Rome,” said Francesco Prosperetti, the superintendent of the city’s archaeological department.
The fact that engineers had to dig down so deep in order to build the station gave archaeologists an “unprecedented” opportunity to study every layer of Rome’s past, right back to when it was not even inhabited by humans. “The project allowed us to reach depths that, as archaeologists, we never normally reach,” he said.
Rossella Rea, the archaeologist who was in charge of the project, said: “The whole history of Rome is here.” For much of the Roman era, the area was a rich agricultural zone where a sophisticated irrigation system allowed the cultivation of fruit, vegetables and flowers. “They were luxury goods for the wealthy people of the city,” she said.
More than 40,000 artifacts were found during the decade-long construction project, with the most interesting now on display.
“We’ve tried to create an immersive experience for passengers,” said Filippo Lambertucci [SEE BELOW = "Procedia Engineering 165 (2016), 104 – 113"], a professor of archaeology from Rome’s La Sapienza University. “It sheds light on the daily life of ancient Romans and people living in subsequent centuries.”
San Giovanni is one of 30 stations on Rome’s new metro line, the city’s third. Work on the station has finished but other parts of the line are still to be completed, so San Giovanni will not open to the public until the end of the year.
It will be the first of two “museum-stations” along the new line. During digging for another station, to be called Amba Aradam, engineers stumbled across the remains of a Praetorian Guard barracks.
The second century AD barracks, believed to have been constructed under the Emperor Hadrian, was discovered 30ft underground.
Engineers plan to incorporate it into the modern station, which is due to be finished in 2021. Rome’s Metro C line, which will augment the existing A and B lines, has been plagued by delays since it began nearly a decade ago, in part caused by the frequent discovery of archeological remains.
FONTE | SOURCE:
-- THE TELELGRAPH, U.K. (05/05/2017).
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/05/rome-unveils-museum-m...
s.v.,
ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: Roma, il Viaggio nel tempo nella nuova stazione San Giovanni della Metro C. LA REPUBBLICA (31/03/2017).
-- 2.1). ROMA - "Nella nuova stazione della metro C di San Giovanni," in: ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: The Metro C Archaeological Surveys (2006-11): MIBAC / SSBAR - Archeologia e Metropolitana linea (C) a Roma. ARCHEOLOGIA E INFRASTRUTTURE (10/2009) & Archeologia e Metropolitana linea (C) PRIME INDAGINI ARCHEOLOGICHE (2008-17). FOTO & STAMPA 1- 54.
-- ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: Filippo Lambertucci,* “[ROMA METRO C] Archaeo-mobility. Integrating archaeological heritage with everyday life,” Procedia Engineering 165 (2016), 104 – 113 [Science Direct 2017]. PDF, 1-10.
rometheimperialfora19952010.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/roma...
Paul E. Jacobs, Executive Chairman, Qualcomm, USA, is speaking during the Session "Shifting Gears to Driverless" at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Mattias Nutt
Since 2002 Copenhagen has a driverless metro system. This line connecting the airport with the city centre was opened in 2007.
ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: Rome unveils 'museum' metro station packed with hundreds of ancient artefacts found during construction. THE LONDON SUNDAY TIMES (06/05/2017), THE TELEGRAPH, U.K. (05/05/2017), & Prof. Filippo Lambertucci, ROMA METRO C - Procedia Engineering 165 (2016), 104 – 113 [Science Direct 2017]. PDF, 1-10, in ENGLISH.
1). ROME - Museum pieces distract Roman commuters - Passengers at San Giovanni station can view artefacts dug up during its construction. THE LONDON SUNDAY TIMES (06/05/2017).
Frustrated by the constant discovery of ancient artefacts as it digs its new underground rail line, the city of Rome has decided to take advantage of the difficulty and turn its newest underground station into an archaeological museum.
Commuters catching high-tech driverless trains at San Giovanni station will file past glass cases containing 2,000-year-old amphorae, oil lamps, jewellery and irrigation pipes, all part of an vast haul of 40,000 artefacts dug up during its construction.
“The moment you go down the steps you go back in time,” said Francesco Prosperetti, Rome’s archaeological superintendent, during a visit to the €50 million station yesterday. As they descend into the station, commuters will see panels indicating the depth they are at, and the historical period to which it corresponds.
At 14m, they are level with the third century AD, when the area was just outside Rome’s new city walls and all buildings were levelled to prevent enemies creeping up on the city. “Instead the neighbourhood was used for burials,” said Rosella Rea, the city official who set up the museum.
At 19m, experts found peach stones — which are on display — dating from the first century AD, when the area had imported the first peach trees from Persia to grow on a farm feeding the imperial city. By the time they reach the platforms, commuters are level with the arrival of Neanderthals in Europe.
It is hoped that the museum will help commuters forget the six-year delay opening the station, as well as the distinct possibility that some stops down the line in the heart of Rome may never open, thanks to a mix of cost overruns, bad management and archaeology. The C line’s next station is due to open in 2021, but a huge ancient Roman barracks has been unearthed on the site.
Ms Rea said that locals were happy with the new station-museum. “We had 11,000 come in for an open day recently, similar to the numbers we get at the Colosseum,” she said. All that is missing are the trains, which are due to begin running in the autumn.
FONTE | SOURCE:
-- THE LONDON SUNDAY TIMES (06/05/2017).
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/museum-pieces-distract-roman-c...
2). ROME - Rome unveils 'museum' metro station packed with hundreds of ancient artefacts found during construction. THE TELELGRAPH, U.K. (05/05/2017)
ROME - or Romans, the daily commute will never be the same again. The city on Friday unveiled a brand new underground station that boasts a trove of archeological treasures that were found during its construction.
They range from iron spearheads and gold coins decorated with emperors’ heads to a delicate perfume bottle made from turquoise glass and marble statues of scantily-clad nymphs.
There are giant amphorae, bronze fish hooks from an ancient Roman fish farm, the remains of a first century BC woven basket and even a collection of 2,000 year old peach stones, from when the area was a rich farming estate providing food for the imperial elite.
They are all displayed in softly-lit glass-fronted panels throughout San Giovanni metro station, located a couple of hundred yards from the grand papal basilica of St John in Lateran and close to the capital’s historic centre.
As passengers descend the station’s stairways, they will travel back in time, from the Middle Ages to Imperial Rome and right back to Republican Rome. The deeper they get, the further back in history they go.
On the station’s walls, key dates in the history of the city are marked, from the building of defensive walls by the Emperor Aurelius in the third century AD to the sacking of the city by the Vandals in 455 AD and the end of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD.
Down at the bottom of the shiny new station, where trains will arrive, passengers will find themselves back in the Pleistocene age, at a depth of 100ft beneath ground level. “It’s a sort of time machine – the further down you go in the station, the further you reach back into the history of Rome,” said Francesco Prosperetti, the superintendent of the city’s archaeological department.
The fact that engineers had to dig down so deep in order to build the station gave archaeologists an “unprecedented” opportunity to study every layer of Rome’s past, right back to when it was not even inhabited by humans. “The project allowed us to reach depths that, as archaeologists, we never normally reach,” he said.
Rossella Rea, the archaeologist who was in charge of the project, said: “The whole history of Rome is here.” For much of the Roman era, the area was a rich agricultural zone where a sophisticated irrigation system allowed the cultivation of fruit, vegetables and flowers. “They were luxury goods for the wealthy people of the city,” she said.
More than 40,000 artifacts were found during the decade-long construction project, with the most interesting now on display.
“We’ve tried to create an immersive experience for passengers,” said Filippo Lambertucci [SEE BELOW = "Procedia Engineering 165 (2016), 104 – 113"], a professor of archaeology from Rome’s La Sapienza University. “It sheds light on the daily life of ancient Romans and people living in subsequent centuries.”
San Giovanni is one of 30 stations on Rome’s new metro line, the city’s third. Work on the station has finished but other parts of the line are still to be completed, so San Giovanni will not open to the public until the end of the year.
It will be the first of two “museum-stations” along the new line. During digging for another station, to be called Amba Aradam, engineers stumbled across the remains of a Praetorian Guard barracks.
The second century AD barracks, believed to have been constructed under the Emperor Hadrian, was discovered 30ft underground.
Engineers plan to incorporate it into the modern station, which is due to be finished in 2021. Rome’s Metro C line, which will augment the existing A and B lines, has been plagued by delays since it began nearly a decade ago, in part caused by the frequent discovery of archeological remains.
FONTE | SOURCE:
-- THE TELELGRAPH, U.K. (05/05/2017).
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/05/rome-unveils-museum-m...
s.v.,
ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: Roma, il Viaggio nel tempo nella nuova stazione San Giovanni della Metro C. LA REPUBBLICA (31/03/2017).
-- 2.1). ROMA - "Nella nuova stazione della metro C di San Giovanni," in: ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: The Metro C Archaeological Surveys (2006-11): MIBAC / SSBAR - Archeologia e Metropolitana linea (C) a Roma. ARCHEOLOGIA E INFRASTRUTTURE (10/2009) & Archeologia e Metropolitana linea (C) PRIME INDAGINI ARCHEOLOGICHE (2008-17). FOTO & STAMPA 1- 54.
-- ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: Filippo Lambertucci,* “[ROMA METRO C] Archaeo-mobility. Integrating archaeological heritage with everyday life,” Procedia Engineering 165 (2016), 104 – 113 [Science Direct 2017]. PDF, 1-10.
rometheimperialfora19952010.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/roma...
Automated driverless electric vehicle arrives in Shanghai, making its debut inside the world exposition.
One of Sydney Metro North Wests new driverless trains. Set TS09 under test at the Schofields Facility.
Similar to the last pic, TS09s headlights are on.
The conductors on the driverless shuttle monitor the safety of the vehicle and its surroundings.
The Mcity Driverless Shuttle launched on June 4, 2018 at the North Campus Research Complex on the University of Michigan’s North Campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This is a research project that will see how passengers interact with the shuttles in order to gauge consumer acceptance of the technology.
Photo by Levi Hutmacher/ Michigan Engineering, Communications and Marketing
The Sydney Daily Telegraph Newspaper ran a competition for 75 family passes to be won for a special trip on the Metro from Tallawong to Chatswood. I missed out but my sister won. So we went for a ride & I finally got to not only see one up close, but rode in it as well. (Yay!)
The Concourse at Castle Hill.
This DS was built by the UK road research laboratory and can drive itself around a test track with no input from the driver using the hydraulic system already in place in the car.
I'd seen it on film but never in real life, it's even more complex than a standard DS!
6/11/18 Columbus,Ohio: TWU Local 208, with the help and support of TWU Local 100, Local 252, Local 291 and Local 501, gets an important resolution passed in the Columbus City Council to protect TWU members jobs and livelihoods in the battle against driverless buses.
The Post Office's own 2'-0" railway built between 1914 and 1927. Running from Paddington Station to Whitechapel via Liverpool Street Station, Mount Pleasant sorting office and a couple of other district post offices on the way.
Amberley Spring Car Show
The See-Meile Route today in Berlin-Tegel is on a trial run until the end of the year, in order to test driverless public transport in general service, as well as to see how other drivers and the public react to the vehicles.
Positive View: The following journey had no problems with impatient or arrogant drivers.
What's hiding under the shroud ? Could it be another train ? Of course it is ! Quite a few unwrapped cars here at the depot / maintenance facilty.
Inside a Waratah looking out onto Maquarie University station.
On the 30th September 2018, the Epping - Chatswood Rail Link (ECRL) was closed to be converted to a "Metro" as part of the Sydney Metro project, a driverless train system running from Tallawong, near Riverstone, to Sydenham, with plans to extend to Bankstown.
Sunday 23rd September 2018
MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Station. Port Authority of NY & NJ AirTrain to JFK Intl. Airport from Jamaica Sutphin Blvd. (LIRR) Station. Picture taken on August 2, 2007. Olympus FE-240.
View from the front window on the driverless Skytrain connection service between the three terminals at Changi Airport.
MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Station. Port Authority of NY & NJ AirTrain to JFK Intl. Airport from Jamaica Sutphin Blvd. (LIRR) Station. Picture taken on August 2, 2007. Olympus FE-240.
View from the front of the driverless Skytrain connection service between the three terminals at Changi Airport.
One of Sydney Metro North Wests new driverless trains. Set TS09 under test at the Schofields Facility.
A wide shot of the stabling area.
A few pics around the stabling area for the trains.
Another telephoto shot of the trains bunched together
Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Renault-Nissan Alliance, France, is speaking during the Session "Shifting Gears to Driverless" at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Mattias Nutt
Turin has a driverless metro system based on the VAL system. As in other cities with automatic metro trains the pltaforms have doors that open as a train arrives.
Trans World Airlines (TWA) no longer exists, but its relics are still at JFK, one of its major hubs in USA back in the days. New York City Transit (MTA) Bus. MTA Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) Station. Port Authority of NY & NJ AirTrain to JFK Intl. Airport from Jamaica Sutphin Blvd. (LIRR) Station. Picture taken on August 2, 2007. Olympus FE-240.
Cars installed with special hardware come in to the Safety Pilot Office at the University of Michigan Transportation Institute (UMTRI) to have data pulled from the special devices on November 5, 2013.
The hardware is installed in 3000 cars to monitor driving on Ann Arbor streets, with use of the data to make Ann Arbor the first American city with a shared fleet of connected and driverless vehicles by 2021.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
Cars installed with special hardware come in to the Safety Pilot Office at the University of Michigan Transportation Institute (UMTRI) to have data pulled from the special devices on November 5, 2013.
Ricky Byrd, UMTRI Electronics Technician Intermediate, pulls the hardware out of the backseat. The hardware is usually installed in the trunks of cars and the cabs of trucks.
The hardware is installed in 3000 cars to monitor driving on Ann Arbor streets, with use of the data to make Ann Arbor the first American city with a shared fleet of connected and driverless vehicles by 2021.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
Cars installed with special hardware come in to the Safety Pilot Office at the University of Michigan Transportation Institute (UMTRI) to have data pulled from the special devices on November 5, 2013.
The hardware is installed in 3000 cars to monitor driving on Ann Arbor streets, with use of the data to make Ann Arbor the first American city with a shared fleet of connected and driverless vehicles by 2021.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
A wide shot of the line of piers heading north from SRD. I estimate only about a dozen more before they reach the ones heading south from Windsor Rd.