{"id":46689,"date":"2022-10-11T20:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46689"},"modified":"2022-10-11T19:03:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T18:03:48","slug":"net-named-most-improved-system-at-global-light-rail-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46689","title":{"rendered":"NET named Most Improved System at Global Light Rail Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We reported last week on some of the winners at the 2022 Global Light Rail Awards, taking place in London on 5<sup>th<\/sup> October, and now further details have been announced of more winners \u2013 including Nottingham Express Transit being named \u201cMost Improved System\u201d for the second time in three years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nottingham Express Transit won the accolade thanks to a number of initiatives over the past year. This has seen partnerships with the police and community groups to tackle anti-social behaviour along with the testing of new speed management and driver vigilance technologies. This has seen safety modifications trialled successfully that include a system that can intervene should speed limits be exceeded.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Wright, Managing Director, said: \u201cWinning the Most Improved System award for the second time is a tremendous achievement, and reflects the hard work of colleagues across the organisation to continuously improve both safety and the customer experience. We were delighted to be presented with one of the top awards against stiff competition from light rail systems across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, America and Australia, as it shows that Nottingham has a truly a world-class tram network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition Laura Bartram, Tram Technical Manager, was Highly Commended in the \u201cRising Star\u201d category and NET were a finalist in the Technical Innovation (Rolling Stock) category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We reported last week on some of the winners at the 2022 Global Light Rail Awards, taking place in London on 5th October, and now further details have been announced of more winners \u2013 including Nottingham Express Transit being named &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46689\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46690,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46689\/revisions\/46690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}