Welcome to Transported By Technology!
Hello! Thank you for reading my blog. I’m Mike, a technology professional (and soon to be studying part-time for a Masters degree) with a personal interest in travel and transport (particularly rail) – so this blog covers both sides of that – and sometimes links the two!
Blog Articles

ITB Berlin – Travelling Round The World in 4 Hours
I’m trying something a bit different here – this is more of a blog in the true ‘this is what I’ve been up to’ sense


Fares Reform – it needs to be smart!
Last summer, the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) – an association made up of the majority of the companies operating Britain’s railways – ran a consultation



2019 in the Rail Industry – My Predictions
After all the delivery issues in 2018 (Crossrail and the failed May 2018 timetable launch to name but two) most in the rail industry will



Crossrail – what’s signalling the delays?
Before the project opening date was pushed back in August to next Autumn, today was the first working day Crossrail would have been operating on


The Problem with Open Access…
Featured image: 180 113 at Grantham (from Wikimedia Commons) Most of the UK’s train operators are run under contract from the DfT, but there are


GTR – a case study on how not to do passenger communications
I’ve been contemplating whether to write this post for some time, even before the RailPlan 2020 timetable changes in May which, unless you’ve been hiding